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The panel discussion on Meet the Press this morning was very interesting. It's still available online. A big point that was made was that BOTH sides, inside and outside of Congress need to civilize the tone of the public discourse... that the polarization and meanspiritedness that is all over the media needs to stop, for any number of reasons but for one, because it gives disturbed individuals like the shooter here more justification, and perhaps motivation, for their unbalanced actions. There was an interesting quote from a Bill Clinton speech on the anniversary of Oklahoma City that spoke to this issue well:
"What we learned from Oklahoma City is, not that we should gag each other or that we should reduce our passion for the positions we hold, but that the words we use really do matter because there are--there's this vast echo chamber, and they go across space and they fall on the serious and the delirious alike. They fall on the connected and the unhinged alike."
He was kicked out of college last year, he was rejected from the military, which he worked hard trying to get fit. He was fixated with Giffords, had meet her before, had attended an event.
Inherently, any attempt on the life of a politician is "political".
How do you know what anyone was/wasn't doing when Bush was president, which has been 3+ years ago now? Do you tell people to knock it off when they talk about assassinating Obama (a topic that comes up here regularly)? "If not, you are as guilty as them."
Indeed, our current climate is the result of multi-media. People who listen to Fox may not listen to MSNBC and vice versa. That is divisive, immediately, because one is then operating in a bubble.
In addition, the tone - them against us - instead of "WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER" has split this country.
Would that this could be a wakeup call for everyone to learn to discuss, examine and compromise, in a CIVIL manner - for the good of the whole. Instead of the constant haranguing of 'I'm right, you're wrong,' 'lock and load,' 'put 'em in your crosshairs,' 'take 'em out,' 'if words don't work, we'll use bullets' - all recent pronouncements by politically prominent people - which make it seem as though deranged thinking, anger, aggressiveness, hate - is OK.
I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT!!! Had that one nailed from the start. Soon as I saw his photo I read him like a book. Obsessive video game playing is BAD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE and CAN contribute to mental illness & ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOR... sometimes violence. WHERE OH WHERE were those deadbeat parents who he lived with, while he was playing video games all day/night....???
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