Limbaugh: Loughner Has 'Full Support' Of Dem Party

[lakhota]

Rush Limbaugh reacted to the instantly infamous mugshot of Jared Lee Loughner, the suspected gunman in the Arizona shooting, by saying that the reason Loughner is smiling in the picture is because he knows he is backed by the Democratic Party.

Speaking on his radio show Tuesday, Limbaugh said that Loughner was getting the exact attention that he wanted:

"What Mr. Loughner knows is that he has the full support of a major political party in this country. He's sitting there in jail. He knows what's going on, he knows that...the Democratic Party is attempting to find anybody but him to blame. He knows if he plays his cards right, he's just a victim. He's the latest in a never-ending parade of victims brought about by the unfairness of America...this guy clearly understands he's getting all the attention and he understands he's got a political party doing everything it can, plus a local sheriff doing everything that they can to make sure he's not convicted of murder - but something lesser."

Listen: www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/11/rush-limbaugh-jared-loughner-full-support-democrat_n_807543.html

[lakhota]

He won't tone down his inflammatory rhetoric because he makes a fortune keeping his zombies enraged.

[vonnie6200]

And you?

[lakhota]

Sales In Glock Pistols Up After Arizona Shootings

Hey, everyone. Not to unnerve you, but apparently, days after a madman went on a murdery rampage with a Glock in Arizona, Arizonans are heading to gun stores in droves to purchase the very same weapon used by Jared Lee Loughner. It's as good an example as anything to demonstrate that there really is no such thing as bad publicity, only an inplacable, gnawing cynicism that permeates our existence and sends us, sobbing, into a fetal position.

Michael Riley from Bloomberg News documents how we at last have stimulated some aggregate demand in something!

After a Glock-wielding gunman killed six people at a Tucson shopping center on Jan. 8, Greg Wolff, the owner of two Arizona gun shops, told his manager to get ready for a stampede of new customers.

Wolff was right. Instead of hurting sales, the massacre had the $499 semi-automatic pistols -- popular with police, sport shooters and gangsters -- flying out the doors of his Glockmeister stores in Mesa and Phoenix.

"We're at double our volume over what we usually do," Wolff said two days after the shooting spree that also left 14 wounded, including Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who remains in critical condition.

Of course, this is nothing new, nor is it a localized oddity:

One-day sales of handguns in Arizona jumped 60 percent on Jan. 10 compared with the corresponding Monday a year ago, the second-biggest increase of any state in the country, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation data. From a year earlier, handgun sales ticked up yesterday 65 percent in Ohio, 16 percent in California, 38 percent in Illinois and 33 percent in New York, the FBI data show, and increased nationally about 5 percent.

Federally tracked gun sales, which are drawn from sales in gun stores that require a federal background check, also jumped following the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech, in which 32 people were killed.

No corresponding data detailing how sales of DEMON WEED are proceeding in the wake of this weekend's tragedy, but one has to imagine that they're up, if only because so many people maybe want to dull the pain that comes when you realize that you are surrounded by gun-crazy maniacs.

www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/11/arizonans-flock-up-the-bl_n_807517.html

[lakhota]

Peter King, Leading Republican, To Introduce Strict Gun-Control Legislation



Rep. Peter King, a Republican from New York, is planning to introduce legislation that would make it illegal to bring a gun within 1,000 feet of a government official, according to a person familiar with the congressman's intentions.

King is chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. The proposed law follows the Saturday shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and a federal judge that left six dead, including the judge, and 14 wounded.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of the nation's most outspoken gun-control advocates, is backing King's measure and is expected to put the weight of his pro-gun-control organization behind it.

More: www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/11/peter-king-strict-gun-control_n_807323.html

[billisonboard]

"...legislation that would make it illegal to bring a gun within 1,000 feet of a government official..."

Goody. Another fund raising opportunity for the NRA that will have zero impact.

[chiver78]

all the political BS coming from this tragedy is just sickening. posts like this included.

both sides need to knock off the spin, the incendiary bull, and just all the crap. it's sad to see that we live in a country where those with opposing opinions are painted as "the enemy" that needs to be dealt with as such.

it's only going to keep happening unless both sides knock it off.

[lakhota]

GOP Rep. Calls Loughner 'The Liberal Of Liberals'



Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) says political rhetoric doesn't really incite violent behavior at all -- but not before describing Arizona shooting suspect Jared Loughner as a "communist" and "the liberal of liberals."

tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/gop-rep-loughners-beliefs-the-liberals-of-liberals.php?ref=fpa

[vonnie6200]

So I am a bit confused - are shooters shooting because conservatives tell them to or are they shooting because conservatives are calling them names.

[lakhota]

TPM's Guide To 2010's Violent Rhetoric

Scary: tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/gun_rhetoric_2010.php?ref=fpb

[vonnie6200]

So you are trying to say that calling him names was not the problem?

[lakhota]

GOP Stresses Need For Mental Health Services, Despite Pushing For Repeal Of Aid

President Obama’s health reform legislation — which all Republicans now want to repeal — would go even further in helping Americans with mental illness. By 2014, families and individuals will be able to enroll in insurance through an expanded Medicaid program or the exchanges, where private companies will have to offer mental health and substance use disorder services as part of the essential package of benefits. The law also expands parity to a much wider pool, “making it possible for millions more people to get the same coverage for substance abuse and illnesses like bipolar disorder, major depression and schizophrenia as they would for, say, diabetes or cancer.” As Michael J. Fitzpatrick, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI, told the New York Times shortly after reform was signed into law, reform “can change the mental health system in America and really give families and individuals an opportunity to get a level of access to care we could only fantasize about before this became law.”

thinkprogress.org/2011/01/11/rogers-mental-tucson/

[lakhota]

Loughner's Parents: Did They Know About His Mental Illness?

Arizona suspect Jared Loughner has an angry father and a reclusive mother, neighbors say. What did they know about their son’s illness?

Alleged Arizona shooter Jared Loughner is the only child of Randy and Amy Loughner, described by neighbors as an unfriendly, isolated couple. Claire Martin and Masada Siegel report on their odd behavior—and why they’re hiding from the media.

More: www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-11/jared-loughners-parents-randy-and-amy-did-they-know-about-his-mental-illness-/?cid=hp:mainpromo1

[vonnie6200]

Well this is a wonderful stretch - you have now blamed the majority of Americans who are not in favor of Obamacare for this mass murder - that is of course in addition to Palin, Beck, Hannity etc.

And at the same time casting aspersions against another Rep. for labeling the sole person responsible as a gasp "liberal" -

and I am not suggesting that liberal are bad - but that is all she said - unlike you - whether you wrote it or just quoted it

[lakhota]

20 Deadliest Gun States

You're five times more likely to die from a gun in Arizona than Hawaii. In the wake of the Giffords massacre, The Daily Beast ranks which states have the worst record of gun fatalities.

Galleries: www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2504/1/

www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-11/20-deadliest-gun-states-from-mississippi-to-arizona/?cid=hp:mainpromo5

[vonnie6200]

But Chicago has very very strict gun control laws and very high death rates from guns, drive by shootings etc.

[lakhota]

Explained: Jared Loughner’s Grammar Obsession

The alleged shooter’s statements closely echo the teachings of a popular far-right tax-resister movement.

motherjones.com/politics/2011/01/sovereign-citizens-jared-lee-loughner

[vonnie6200]

just how popular?

[lakhota]

Yes, Jared Loughner's Act Was Political

The Right channels the fear, anger and paranoia of mentally disturbed people -- and then points them toward the Democrats.

www.alternet.org/news/149488/yes%2C_jared_loughner%27s_act_was_political/

[lakhota]

The Right's Rising Tide of Violent Rhetoric Is Deadly

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords appears be the latest victim of anti-government violence that has taken hold in America since 2009.

www.alternet.org/teaparty/149474/the_right%27s_rising_tide_of_violent_rhetoric_is_deadly/

[vonnie6200]

The Right channels the fear, anger and paranoia of mentally disturbed people -- and then points them toward the Democrats.

Read more: notmsnmoney.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=politics&action=display&thread=1428#ixzz1AlyvdIgP


It goes both ways and you know it -- and numerous Republicans have been either assaulted or assassinated also!

[billisonboard]

"...you know it -- ..."

On a partisanship scale of 1-10, Lakhota is 137 on a good day.

[vonnie6200]

Jan 11, 2011 18:54:38 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

"...you know it -- ..."

On a partisanship scale of 1-10, Lakhota is 137 on a good day.

Thanks!

[lakhota]

I do my best...

[vonnie6200]

Jan 11, 2011 19:11:15 GMT -5 @lakhota said:

I do my best...

To be partisan?

[billisonboard]

Jan 11, 2011 19:11:15 GMT -5 @lakhota said:

I do my best...

And you do it very, very well.

Okay, maybe sometimes too well. But that is why we love ya.

[billisonboard]

Jan 11, 2011 19:14:15 GMT -5 vonnie6200 said:

Jan 11, 2011 19:11:15 GMT -5 @lakhota said:

I do my best...

To be partisan?

Supporting non- or bi-partisanship tends to be a knee jerk reaction much like supporting Mom and apple pie. Lakhota doesn't seem to believe partisanship to be a negative. A valid, if sometimes annoying, belief.

[lakhota]

Thank you!

As an avid hunter and gun enthusiast, I worry about the right doing even more harm than the left regarding the future of hunting and gun rights. The right's position on gun rights is too extreme, in my opinion.

I am a strong proponent of the Second Amendment.

[billisonboard]

"I am a strong proponent of the Second Amendment."

And I want to see it legally repealed instead of this silly half-assed "gun control" that has no real positive effect and seriously violates the Amendment. Repeal the right to own guns and then set up serious requirements that make individuals show that they should be allowed to own them.

[Deleted]

I said it about the Dems & now I get to say it about the Repubs.....To try to make Brownie points (or get votes) using something like this is just LOW CLASS & of very poor taste.