Very likely this young man has been on the path to disaster for years. At some point he was rewired to explode and someone was going to be hurt. The gun was a tool of convenience and the Congress woman was a target of choice. The Judge and the little girl and the others where targets by virtue of their being there. Nobody but the demons in Laugher's mind told him to do this. How and who he perceived the demons to be had nothing to do with who Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin or Rush Limbaugh are or their own brand of aberrant politics.

Timothy McVeigh's weapon of choice was a rental truck, diesel fuel, and fertilizer. Trucks, fuel, and fertilizer in that part of Arizona are as easy to obtain as is an auto loading pistol. The point is the depth of murder and mayhem is limited only by imagination and not the availability of weapons. Imagine the carnage that a tractor trailer
loaded with nothing at all could have done to that crowd of people.

I don't like Glenn, Sarah, and Rush even a little bit. They are guilty of a few things but not this crime. I believe his was the work of a mentally ill man and perhaps another, nobody else.

Old Timer