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BOOM! Just wanted to break this up for a second.
I took a bit of a breather from this because I was getting stuck in it.
Jared is responsible for his own actions. Despite whatever instabilities he may or may not have, he brought a gun to a political event intending to kill people, and that's what he did. Sarah Palin isn't responsible for it, President Obama isn't responsible for it, and Ron Paul isn't responsible for it. Like virtually every other political assassination in America's history, this was the act of an individual operating for apparent reasons which are basically divorced from reality. That doesn't mean his actions weren't political, they were, or that his actions are divorced in every way from the discourse, but here we are.
If any discussion aside from sharing our despair and frustration with the tragedy should be brought up, perhaps it should be questions of gun control as pertaining specifically to mental illness. There may be something constructive to come from that discussion if we don't let entrenched partisan bullshit end the debate before it begins.
The issue of murderous discourse coming from the right's disingenuous response to being out of power probably should have it's own thread. I'll be starting that thread in a moment.
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