Sometimes a Nut is Just a Nut

          Jared Loughner seems to smirk at the camera, showing no remorse for the lives he has destroyed, in this mug shot taken after the shooting.  A high school classmate describes Loughner as “left wing, quite liberal” and a “pot head” and, even though a writer for the liberal website Daily Kos stated Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was “dead to me,” I’m not blaming liberals for the shooting of Giffords or the murder of six others.  

          Many on the left have blamed talk radio, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin for the shootings.  Palin has taken numerous potshots (idiom intended) from liberal pundits because she used targets to denote district where she sought change, but the “target” idiom has been used in politics for many years.  Politicians target their opponents stand on issues, target voters and even target their own base.  However, there is no indication that Loughner ever read anything that Palin wrote, much less saw it as a call to arms.      

          The crimes of Jared Loughner do not fall at Sarah Palin’s feet or anyone else’s, they are his and his alone.  No sane person sprays bullets into a crowd, killing a child, to make a political statement.  Loughner was simply a nut and attempting to make sense of his actions, analyzing insanity, is a fool’s game.  

Comments

[Noel G]

I do put some responsibility on sheriff Dupe-(beat)nik. I know there's probably more information needed before honest analysis can be made regarding law enforcement's encounters with Loughner, and him not receiving psychological help, (not to mention where was police security for a public event with a congress woman!) but just because the way the sheriff chimed in on the conservative bash fest screams to me a case of protesting too much. Could it be he's deflecting?