>>>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703667904576071913818696964.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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>>>"To be clear, if you're using this event to criticize the "rhetoric" of Mrs. Palin or others with whom you disagree, then you're either: (a) asserting a connection between the "rhetoric" and the shooting, which based on evidence to date would be what we call a vicious lie; or (b) you're not, in which case you're just seizing on a tragedy to try to score unrelated political points, which is contemptible. Which is it?"
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>>>I've often thought the "Progressive Left" and the the "Religious Right" have a great deal in common ( cf Eric Hoffer - "The True Believer")
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>>>My objection to both has not been the claim to have a better idea but rather the self-righteous claim to being better people.
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>>>The tragedy in Arizona is a definite sign that there are some very crazy people out there. I, for one, had no doubt about that a week ago.
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>>>Politics can be skin deep, but crazy is to the bone.
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>>So far, the "facts" don't support any relationship. His classmates (I've seen 3 interviews with separate people and found 1 write-up so far) saw him as a "Left Wing Pot Head."
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>>http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2011/01/jared_loughner_alleged_shooter.php
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>>Just shows that crazy is as crazy does and he would have been crazy regardless of which political side he chose - or even if he chose none. The issue is with all of the warning signs and yet no action.
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>But all the warning signs where that sort of unofficial gossip you can't legislate for.
>I'm sure if you raked over anyones past enough you could find people to say they should never have owned a gun as they where mad as a hatter.

In his case, he was kicked out of college and told not to come back until he had a psychiatrist's evaluation. There were other warning signs too.