It was recently added in comments and is, more or less, the sentiment of some posters in regard to yours truly. I am blaming the right for the tragedy in Arizona and their rhetoric or actions in no way, shape or form have anything to do with it. I'm a shameful person who, like this cartoon, is exploiting the tragedy for political gains.
Take a look at Mr. "You Lie" in this photo. Here we see Congressmen Wilson hanging out at the Palmetto State Armory which (until recently) was selling a lower receiver for an AR-15 with the engraving "You Lie!" on it. This is seen clearly in the photo to the left of Congressmen Wilson. Apparently, though, he has not officially endorsed this. And after the shootings in Tuscon a week ago, the item has been taken down and is not available for sale.
Help me out, here, folks. The people that actually sell products like this are all good and are in no way at all related to any shooting at all...EVER! It's all the left's fault and they are the shameful evil ones! So am I!!!! AHHHHH, the shame!!!!!
I guess I must be deluded in thinking there was any sort of correlation between people that put things like this on guns and stirring up violent sentiment and actions. I must need my head shrinked!
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The people that actually sell products like this are all good and are in no way at all related to any shooting at all...EVER!
Has anyone actually been shot by an AR-15 with the "You lie" engraved lower?
It's all the left's fault and they are the shameful evil ones!
Dude, when TNR and CSM are knocking it, it ain't hardly some conservative bash-fest. Everyone else on "your side" is pretty much letting go of this.
But you just can't stand the thought of losing this argument - you have to win. I guess your father never taught you, when you are in a hole - stop digging.
Liberals aren't pushing the false theory because they believe in the truth. Beck and his ilk intentionally spread lies like this all the time, even when there's no traumatic emotional event involved, and they never apologize or admit error.
Check out Glenn Beck's clips about the vast liberal conspiracy some night. Watch him blather about "Crime, Inc." and the conspiracy between Soros and PetroBras, and how they and Obama are actually behind the BP oil spill.
Just listen to the birthers who insist that Obama wasn't born in Hawaii, isn't an American and that there's a huge conspiracy stretching back to Obama's birth 50 years ago to put an anti-colonial Kenyan in charge of the US government.
Then consider the case of Byron Williams, the bank robber and Beck devotee who got it into his head to go shoot up the Tides Foundation and the ACLU. Instead he wounded two CHP patrolmen in a twelve-minute shootout.
According to Williams' mother, Janice, her son was angry with "the way Congress was railroading through all these left-wing agenda items."
Then consider the case of Charlie Wilson, the Tea Party nutjob and Beck devotee who threatened to kill Senator Patty Murray.
So, it's no stretch to assume that Giffords, whose office had been vandalized during the health care debate last year, had been attacked by someone similar when the repeal of that same health-care law was coming up soon. As it turns out, it seems to be an incorrect conclusion. It was wrong to accuse anyone of anything publicly until we knew more.
Just because we all know Beck is a professional liar doesn't mean he has no influence over impressionable people. As we've seen, he influenced at least one person to go out and shoot people. People thought Loughner was another one of Beck's victims. Looks like they were wrong, and they're admitting it.
So, no, as far as we know the AR-15 "You Lie!" gun hasn't been used to shoot anyone. But at least one guy incited by the same sentiments have wounded cops.
Pop quiz Mark,
One of your students has two bongs. One has ""Just say no." -Nancy Reagan" engraved upon it. The other has ""When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point." -Obama" engraved.
Question: Which one does he use to get high?
If you look at the guy's mug shot, you'll realize it's just as credible to claim that he was influenced by Christopher Lloyd's role as Fester Addams.
Good points, blk. Now you are guilty of blood libel as well.
But at least one guy incited by the same sentiments have wounded cops.
One guy with a fairly extensive criminal record. Yep, that's real representative of the conservative portion of the populace. Good one blk, not quite as 'good' as M but you might get there yet.
Help me out, here, folks. The people that actually sell products like this are all good and are in no way at all related to any shooting at all...EVER! It's all the left's fault and they are the shameful evil ones! So am I!!!! AHHHHH, the shame!!!!!
I guess I must be deluded in thinking there was any sort of correlation between people that put things like this on guns and stirring up violent sentiment and actions. I must need my head shrinked!
Is the choice that binary, that yes/no, black/white to you? You've spent the last week claiming that it must be a connection to the right, and can't possibly have any connection to the left at all. And when people say that's stupid, that it's at least as likely to connect to 8 years of "Kill Bush" as to 1 time saying "Don't retreat, reload", the above is what you hear?
You're right, you do need your head shrinked. You're a classical psychotic.
So, it's no stretch to assume that Giffords, whose office had been vandalized during the health care debate last year, had been attacked by someone similar when the repeal of that same health-care law was coming up soon.
There have also been several people wounded and killed just in the last two years by Bush haters and 9/11 Truthers, including a couple of "avid devotees" of "professional liar" Barack Obama, who had a 9/11 Truther in his cabinet and who advocated "bringing a gun" to political debate.
Since Giffords is a moderate, who "had a bullseye" put on her by Daily Kos, why is it any more of a stretch to assume she was attacked by someone from the far left than from the far right? Both assumptions are pretty simplistic, aren't they?
The guy conclusively proved himself to be a nutjob before it ever even made the news. Wouldn't the most rational assumption have been to assume that he attacked her on orders from the neighbor's dog, or the purple pixie in the corner, or some equally nonsensical reason? Even if you're willing to concede that making an assumption rather than waiting for actual evidence isn't flatly idiotic in the first place.
"8 years of "Kill Bush"
During the 'Kill Bush' era, there were no GOP members actually shot in the head, were there? Did leftists carrying recite word for word from Al Gore's book and then walk into a church and shoot people? Were there any liberal terrorists caught on their way to the Cato Institute to blow it up? Was any liberal jailed for threatening a GOP Senator?
markadelphia are you still saying that the AZ shooter was a right winger?
Are you seriously using as a yardstick for 'violent rhetoric' whether someone was actually shot or not?
Really?
Is this an example of you critically thinking?
markadelphia are you still saying that the AZ shooter was a right winger?
Of course he is. If he stops that would mean admitting he was wrong and then he doesn't wiiinnnnnnnnn.
What can you expect from someone who thought the Dems were going to hold the House last election.
No, that's not what I'm saying. Please try, folks, to look at this in a broader context and with more width of vision.
By your standard, you and everyone on the left is complicit in at least 9 murders:
http://www.phila.gov/districtattorney/PDFs/GrandJuryWomensMedical.pdf
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