(1/17/11) It’s a little over a week since Jared Loughner took his pistol to the supermarket, and people are still trying to assign blame for his actions. They’re also using this tragedy to further a few agendas.
Almost immediately after the shootings, some pundits and “news” people were pointing their fingers at right wing rhetoric in general and Sarah Palin in particular. It pains me greatly to say that’s unfair blame-laying but, despite the fact that few people will agree with this edition of the Journal, I will stick by my assessment. While today’s political rhetoric is far too caustic, combative and relies too much on the manipulation of emotion, there are WAY too many pressures and sources of anger and frustration to point to mere words and/or images as the source of Jared Loughner’s insanity and what I’ve seen over the past week can only be described as political opportunism.
Plus: This week’s Good Guy is a man who was killed in that horrible shootout.
Links related to the shooting: The Guardian (UK) Wikipedia
This week’s Good Guy, Dorwan Stoddard: KVOA.com WSJ
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