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Originally Posted by filtherton
This is wholly separate from the actual motives of the actual shooter. However, when the political rhetoric your side employs starts to resemble the behavior of violent lunatics (regardless of their actual, lunatic motivations), perhaps its time to take a step back and think about how fucking ridiculous and out of place your rhetoric is.
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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
I do agree with filtherton and in the larger picture this one case doesn't really doesn't matter. You have people, mainly on the right, running around talking about reloading and drawing bulls eyes. It sure sounds dangerous to me. But the left is not without it share of wing nuts too. Some guy is trying to get his Palin restraining order lifted, why? No idea but he made death threats against her in the past. I think very little of the lady myself, but would think it awful harmful to her family if not the country if she were "taken out" by violence.
I think everyone needs to take a deep breath and knock off all the violent talk.
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I would just like to add my voice to these two again.
This issue isn't whether the shooter was directly inspired by the language being used. It's that the language being used so resembles the language of "violent lunatics".
It's time for people to adjust the language they use. If you are holding a sign that says, "We came unarmed (this time)". You really need to have a think about what you are saying.