CreativeDominant
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ORIGINAL: RapierFugue You have, as a nation, a simple choice; either do something meaningful about gun ownership, rather than tinkering at the edges, or else accept these kind of events as the price of having a gun culture. Rapier, I don't understand why you don't seem to grasp that we have made our choice. Thank you for your concern, but we're content with our decision. Panda, usually we are in agreement on most issues but you are speaking as if everyone agrees with that point of view when you know that is not true. Actually, I would say you are right only in Panda's use of the general "we". A majority of voters are content with the decision to allow a culture in which the citizens have the right to keep and bear arms. That results in some occasions like this nutcase over the weekend. The price of freedom... As for your earlier assertion re: this being due to the inflammatory rhetoric of right-wing conservatives? See my post regarding that...and listen to anyone with sense. Free speech is just that...free speech. While I may not like what Hillary or Obama or Olbermann or Michael Moore have to say, as long as they are not inciting left-wing riots they have a right to say it. Ward Churchill, with his call to take to the streets, may be a different case. I don't agree with all that Beck or Limbaugh or G. Will have to say either, but as long as they are not encouraging violence...and don't run through that tired bullshit about Palin's crosshairs, please...they have a right to say it. This nut was responsible for his own actions...and given that his favorite reading material, as reported by various folks in the mass media, seemed to be centered around the Communist Manifesto and one of his favorite activities appeared to be smoking pot, the argument could be made that he is more left than right. From there, it would be just as easy to cite "leftist" sources for his dissatisfaction with a "progressive" who did not stand far enough to the left...and it would be a wrong citation.
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