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(Sorry about the lateness of this. Lots of stuff going on.)
Watching this whole situation early on, I was thinking, like many people, that this would be the act of some Timothy McVeigh-style individual, who is driven by his own political and religious beliefs to commit an act of terrorism. Having watched the events unfold, however, it quickly became clear that this was not the action of such a lone wolf activist. Instead, this is the actions of a single disturbed mind trying to make sense of the world. Jared Laughner did not shoot Rep. Giffords because of something Glenn Beck said, or because of some map Sarah Palin put up. He shot her because of an issue that might seem trivial to us, but was a deep personal insult in his twisted mind. When she did not give him a satisfactory answer to his unintelligible question years ago, it set up in his mind a personal vendetta which needed to be satisfied. He wasn't going to that shooting to kill a liberal Democrat. He was going to kill Gabrielle Giffords, a woman he personally hated. Even if Rep. Giffords had been the most conservative politician to have ever been elected to Congress, Laughner would have still attacked her.
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Well, Mark said earlier that you can post whatever picture/exhibit you wanted to put up. Then there's the poll, then our side wins the tacos (if tacos ever return...).
This is "expert testimony" (READ: the best testimony I've seen on TV) that comes from both psychologists and someone who actually suffers from schizophrenia himself. I think you'll see that, no matter what, Mr. Loughner would have committed the horrible deed he did, regardless of whether there was tense political rhetoric or not.
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