Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) in critical condition, 6 others killed in Arizona

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Words don't kill people.

Guns do.

See what I did there?

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The political persuasions of the gunman (or gunmen) are irrelevant. What is important here is the cult of violence that has come to exist.

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You people just do not let up, do you?

The way that people in this thread, and elsewhere, have exploited this tragedy from the very beginning to score cheap (and increasingly nonsensical) political points is sickening.  Do you cretins not have any sense of respect or decency?  Or, for that matter, perspective?  I cannot believe this.  You might recall that after 9/11 the Ann Coulter types at least had the common decency to wait a couple months before saying it was all the fault of liberal surrender monkeys in the media.  The asswipes in this thread are making me ashamed to be a human being.

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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2011/01/palin-staffer-nothing-irrespon.html

but wait!



lying bitch.

Does she actually talk like that on Twatter?

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Though there is absolutely zero evidence that supposedly heightened political rhetoric had anything to do with the Arizona shooting.

That does not matter. What is important is the fetishization of violence in American political culture—specifically, a certain part of American political culture. It matters that this, while as ever a lamentable tragedy, is not shocking, for the first time in decades, precisely because of said fetishization.

That which is sown is also reaped.

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I certainly try my best to be a moderate hero.

"Moderate hero" is an insult.

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You're being disingenuous here. I'll repeat my prior statement:

What is important is the fetishization of violence in American political culture—specifically, a certain part of American political culture. It matters that this, while as ever a lamentable tragedy, is not shocking, for the first time in decades, precisely because of said fetishization.

That which is sown is also reaped.