Republicans, Guns, Fear Mongering, Gun Target Rhetoric, and the Gullible

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One Crazed Gunman…many shot, many wounded…many Dead…
Sarah Palin’s Camp is Frantically Back-peddling…The Huff reports… Shortly after news broke that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) had been shot at a congressional event in her district, observers began noting that she had, during the campaign,literally been Sarah Palin’s target…to which they reply for those who are really gullible…
“We never ever, ever intended it to be gun sights,” she said in an interview with talk radio host Tammy Bruce Saturday. “It was simply crosshairs like you’d see on maps.” Bruce suggested that they could, in fact, be seen as “surveyor’s symbols.” Mansour added that “it never occurred to us that anybody would consider it violent” and called any attempts to politicize the Arizona tragedy “repulsive.”

But who can forget Sarah’s famous “Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: ‘Don’t Retreat, Instead – RELOAD!’

Others who are more cautious in their opinions than I, Howard Fineman in this instance writes…Now comes Tucson. The deaths there are not about politics, ideology or party. From what we know, Jared Loughman’s acts were those of a madman divorced from reality, let alone from public debate.

Many who have since commented have come under attacks including Sheriff Clarence Dupnik who said this…”When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government,” said Dupnik at a press conference Saturday. “The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous. And unfortunately, Arizona I think has become sort of the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry.”

These “attacks” and criticisms come from the usual suspects… one even calling for his resignation. Apparently it’s business as usual for this group of Haters…but then, we have not seen them do much in the past, to dispel any suspicions of fear-mongering by them…in fact quite the contrary.

I do not expect many surprises from here on out…but time will tell.
My sincerest sympathies to the victims and their families, I am truly sorry that this has happened, but please take Heart, this Universe has many Good things in store for us in this life…and the next…so be strong and you will endure.

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13 years ago

The spin doctors from the right are already turning it into a joke and denying all responsibility, we mustn’t let that happen.

Stimpson
13 years ago

I see no evidence that “the Universe” has anything in store for us, good or bad. Be that as it may … if Sarah Palin and her followers can’t admit that their rhetoric has been dangerously violent and gun-oriented, they deserve to be treated as pariahs by all good people. It’s incumbent on all in U.S. politics to make it clear that the gun madness must stop.

lazersedge
13 years ago

Excellent reminder “T”. It is up to us now to not go out with the same hate and violent rhetoric but instead demand that Sarah Palin and all of those like her now public denounce the use of violent rhetoric with same passion and public coverage with which they put forth their violent tainted speeches to date. They must now be held accountable for the words they used no matter the direct connection with the Arizona suspect. They, meaning the “Tea Party” candidates and leaders who ramped up this rhetoric must now be the ones to take the lead to tone it down, apologize and say they were wrong. It has caught the attention of the nation and we should not let it go quietly into the night and be forgotten about.

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