Sick to my stomach

[nwhiker]

Is this where it begins?

I don't even know where to begin with linking.

I will say one thing. Dh first caught the beginning of the news blurb on NPR, and called out to me, I heard the rest, and we started looking online for stories. I know it may seem incredible, but it looks like NPR scooped the nation on this one.

They wanted war. This may well be what it is.

[eta] Yes, this is about Rep Gabrielle Giffords. Sorry.

Two quotes:

The point is that when violent, incendiary language is mainstreamed it gets more and more likely that some nutcase will fixate on it, with this kind of result.

and

When you drive further and further down the road to hell, is it a shock when it comes into view just around the next bend?

I can't imagine... parents took their little girl to see a congresswoman, and now she's dead. Breaks my heart, somewhere.

Comments

[secretburning.livejournal.com]

Is this about the Arizona shooting? If so, I feel exactly the same way. "Off the rails" doesn't even begin to describe this.

[nwhiker.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is, sorry, I was totally unclear.

I'm just sick to my stomach over this.

[secretburning.livejournal.com]

I couldn't believe it when I saw that map from Palin's website, with the gun sights marking the "targets" for her followers. Even if this shooter turns out to have had different motivations, manipulating the mentally ill -- which is *exactly* what such graphics and verbiage do -- for her whacked political agenda is disgusting.