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Thread #134829 Message #3073958
Posted By: josepp
13-Jan-11 - 05:29 PM
Thread Name: BS: AZ Congresswoman Giffords shot
Subject: RE: BS: AZ Congresswoman Giffords shot
/////HE TARGETTED A CONGRESSWOMAN FOR 3 YEARS
HE WENT TO EVENTS SEVERAL TIMES.////
But he didn't shoot her until AFTER she was targeted by Palin so your point is, not surprisingly, pointless. There is no way you can prove Palin's words and others did not push him over the edge.
I am not arguing politics here. The politics have nothing to do with anything. I am arguing actions and intent.
////a poll claims 2/3s of Americans believe the killer was merely a deranged lone gunman without any political affiliation, intent or knowledge.////
Obviously this is true but it has nothing to do with anything. He was strongly anti-govt and there is every reason to believe he would have given ear to the anti-govt rhetoric of extremists as Palin, Bachman and Angle. If he already disliked Giffords and then sees that these people seem think the same way and seem to be urging someone to do her in, then he might have decided to do it himself--not because he knew or cared what these people stand for but because there seemed to him to be a message to do it. Nothing more.
I strongly believe these people played a part in this incident. It is entirely reasonable for me to assume so. It is entirely unreasonable for people like you to disagree. None of our arguments against hold water.