US Representative Shot in Arizona + Fantasies/Falsehoods about Dreadnt and Guns

[Steely Glint]

Do you think any politician is insane enough to actually call for violence?

It happens all over the world.

So we really should ban all portrayals of violence in video-games, movies, TV, the News, etc? Because the pysch studies all indicate those as having a tangible effect on us, unlike the use of metaphors in political campaigns. I mean, if you want to avoid setting off people who are already mentally unstable, then presumably if this trigger matters then stronger, more direct triggers should matter even more (oops, I can't use the word trigger now either, it's another of those words which might set off a crazy. Dang, "set off" connotes an explosive, can't use that either)

Oh, do grow up.

If you people are complaining that political speech causes violence I hope you are all lining up to ban violent video games and movies. If not your a bunch of hypocrites.

"you're"

Crazy people can be set off by anything. Beck and Palin are not making the world anymore violent. To claim so is to use a tragedy to score political points and to attempt to restrict people's freedom of speech.

Beck and Palin aren't the ones who are saying, in effect, 'democrats who voted for the health-care bill should be killed'.