On hearing the news of the incident and hearing the name of the shooter, it took precisely 5 minutes online to see that this youngman, the shooter, is psychologically disturbed. Those in positions of public trust, like the Sheriff, have a responsibility to the public for an honest evaluation of a crisis – and not fan the flames of heated political rhetoric. And, I suspect that the sheriff needed to deflect possible criticism of his department’s handling of the suspect prior to the shooting.

As for Krugman, Potok, and their ilk – their utterances are apparently motivated by their own need to foist their lies/opinions/propaganda by any means possible. They are repugnant wretches who are some of the worst of the “blame America first” crowd.

It’s not really unAmerican to look at a tragedy and wonder at steps which might have prevented it or might prevent another one in the future.

I don’t agree with the folks who think everything would be okay if we just didn’t allow people to air their gripes or with the ones who think the solution to violence is to keep weapons out of the hands of those who obey the law, leaving only the criminals free to break those laws too, but I wouldn’t shut them up. I’d just discuss it until they calmed down.

Besides, I might be wrong.

It WOULD be nice if we could pinpoint which of the crazies among us are apt to become violent and protect ourselves from them. I appreciate the ones who stopped him from doing even worse. If would be good if we could figure out how to stop him before he pulls the trigger. Those who knew him had already predicted he would do something similar someday.

David for discussion
lots of discussion
maybe even solutions
to avoid future mourning

Shame on all those that are trying to score political points on the pain and suffering of the victims in Tucson. The diatribes are revolting in their attempts to associate the shooter with any political persuasion. Shame! What ever happened to common decency and the idea that we’re all Americans first?

Fine by me, just as long as I get to decide where the limits are. If the only permitted words are those which do not offend, there is no reason to protect the right to speak.

David wondering who I should stifle first

So we go shoot little girls named Green and everybody else in sight?
Me not think so.

We probably have the least corrupt government since before Andrew Jackson. It is more open about its flaws but it isn’t getting worse on the corruption front.

As to the laws and taxes–they are laws we demand and taxes to pay for what we demand. We aren’t even being taxed enough to cover all our demands, not that I want to be taxed more but we are paying for our spending by borrowing from others. We become slaves to our debts, slaves to our own demands.

This doesn’t look like a protest against government problems; it looks like a crazy person enjoying killing and becoming infamous.

David for better government
without killing kids and old people
in the process

You don’t need to assassinate a bunch of idiots as long as they aren’t violent. It’s a family church, composed of members of a single family and a family member/preacher who is obsessessed with homosexuality. Usually when folks are obsessed with things like that, it is because they feel the desire in themselves and are publicly fighting it. Anything you do against them feeds their martyr complex–the idea that they must be doing God’s will if people don’t like them. So please don’t kill them, it just validates them and hurts innocents in the process.

David knowing God would have spared all of Sodom
if it had even had ten righteous people in it

The Bible does not speak of cashless society; it speaks of inability to buy and sell without taking the mark of the beast. That doesn’t mean they wouldn’t be using cash, just that they would also have to have the mark. (Think ration stamps in WWII, or ID to get on a plane.)

Further, it speaks of it happening after the rapture of the church, so unless you and I’ve been left behind, that isn’t a problem.

Further, the United States of America or anything like it isn’t mentioned anywhere, so that indicates it won’t be our problem. Our whole country’ll be gone before then (according to the interpretation of David–you’re free to come up with your own).

It even spells out that people won’t gather firewood for several years after the big battle associated with the prophecy because they’ll be burning up the chariots destroyed in the conflict. Assuming that to be accurate, we–they, since we will doubly be gone by then–will have to have converted back to chariots and firewood for them to be useful for firewood.

Leaving all that behind for the moment, does it really make sense to you to rave about treasurers dispensing money? Isn’t that kind of what they do? And he WAS talking money.

And this person you consider sane wasn’t talking about cashless society, he was talking about a new money system. There have been plenty of those through the centuries.

He’s a nutcase. If he sounds sane to you……please follow my suggestion.

David in an interpretive world