Every so often I will post some of the comments I find from bloggers and others posting on the internet, to show the mentality of some, and provide responses that point out the flaws in their posts. These particular ones are from - you guessed it - the liberal AOL (a Time/Warner company). Here are a few to start this ball rolling...
Margie 2:47 AM Jan 10, 2011
I only have one thing to say about this planned shooting (Congresswoman Giffords)....Sarah Palin and her gun site targets over Giffords district, that has been quickly taken down since the shooting. Sarah Palin is a pathetic and dangerous individual. I expect to probably see more of these shootings from these right wing nut cases.
[REPLY] It appears Margie uses her personal and unfounded bias in jumping to conclusions. The DNC also put up a map with gunsights on REPUBLICAN districts. And the founder of the far-left Daily Kos called upon his readers to "target" Giffords because she was far too moderate. Margie, I think YOU are the dangerous one.
pfpf040408 1:17 PM Jan 10, 2011
Sarah Palin's online poster of members of Congress she targeted for political attack and placed in literal crosshairs – including Gifford. Plus her use of inflammatory words and phrases like RELOAD proves Palin is an out of control, lacking any decency, and who is intent on creating fear, hatred, intolerance, violence and mayhem.
[REPLY] Another liberal nutcase who is all to quick to point out one person's use of normal rhetoric (these same phrases have been used since the Civil War, by both sides) while conveniently ignoring the same behavior from those on his own side of the fence. This EXACT same rhetoric has been used by both sides. But more important, rhetoric is not responsible for the actions of any unstable person, either right or left. People like this guy and the previous poster are a big part of what is wrong today - purposely using invective to divide the country further. Yes, America is dangerously divided - and it is people like these posters that help divide us further by pushing their own hate. They use their own hate to call others "haters".
Spiritwarrior51 11:59 AM Jan 10, 2011
The reason a nut job like Jared Loughner could purchase a gun is because Arizona has one of the worst gun laws in the U.S. That's a fact.
[REPLY] Well, SpiritWarrior, you seem intent on showing only ONE fact. Here is another - the violent crime rate in Arizona with lax gun laws was 482.7 per 100,000. In Washington DC, with the strictest gun laws, it was 1,414.3 per 100,000 - three times higher where gun laws are strictest. Get a clue - if guns are responsible for killing people, then spoons and forks are responsible for making people obese.
jsmith3244 4:05 PM Jan 10, 2011
In Arizona, under Arizona laws, this assassin will likely become a Tea Bag Hero and run for office. Based upon Sarah Palin's suggestions deserving 'cross hairs' and her comment........ "Don't compromise, reload", he very possibly could become Palin's running mate for 2012. Arizona has already embarrassed itself with its anti-immigrant policies, it death panel headed by their governor and now, by handing out and licensing a 'ding-dong' who couldn't manage his affairs on a community campus. Arizona, the State that we all wish wasn't!
[REPLY] Anyone who resorts to slurs like "tea bag" or other insults has no opinion worth listening to. But this particular loser not only joins the ranks of the other two, above, for his mindless comments on rhetoric, but also insults the entire state of Arizona. Like many of his ilk, he seems to think HIS beliefs are the only ones that are important. And for him to make libelous statements behind his anonymity only proves he is also a coward.
Scott 11:27 AM Jan 10, 2011
Say what you want and regardless of what went on in this boys' adled brain, there's no denying the right-wingers have been inviting this for a long time. They even published the home addresses for Dem representatives and their childrens's names, etc! It's interesting it's the right who want to act like they're just shocked at this 'generic' attack now! The left have been calling for a toning down of rhetoric for over two years!
[REPLY] Scott seems to have missed a lot - most of the "violence" rhetoric comes from the left. Here are just a few examples just from President Obama, alone that incites anger and hate ---
Obama: "They Bring a Knife? We Bring a Gun"
Obama: "Get in Their Faces!"
Obama: "I don't want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I'm angry!"
Obama on the private sector: "We talk to these folks... so I know whose ass to kick."
Obama to voters: Republican victory would mean "hand to hand combat"
Obama to liberal supporters: "It's time to Fight for it."
Obama to Latino supporters: "Punish your enemies."
Obama to democrats: "I'm itching for a fight."
Obama on BP: "Well put our boots on their neck"
The point, of course, is that rhetoric is just that - WORDS. If a person is so unstable that they take rhetoric as a call to violence, then it is their instability, and not the words that are at fault. If you come at me with a gun, I'll blow a hole in you that Amtrak could run through. But if you come at me with words, I'll just laugh.
And that's MY word.
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