So we don’t pretend to be a news site here. We barely pretend to be anything. But I’ve been watching the cable news all day (Fox News Channel as I prefer Shepherd Smith to that weird blond on MSNBC) and listening as details drip out. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a little kid, a federal judge and a lot of other people were shot today by a 22 year old guy apparently named Jared Loughner.
Just look on your news source of choice for more info (or here) and realize that I would not be saying anything about it at all except the whole thing has me all sorts of twisted. And I don’t really have anyone to be mad at except this guy named Jared Loughner. And I’m sure it is going to be revealed that he was some misdiagnosed sick person or diagnosed and off his meds or a “we didn’t see the signs” person. And someone will probably try to name a law after someone who died today so that something like this “can never happen again”.
And in a lot of these cases you see crazy videos (here’s the guy’s youtube channel to see some) and some other things that show people “how come we didnt see this coming?”
Well, I did some searching. And I found the link below. And I have been staring at the picture and the caption and wondering if maybe there are two Jared Loughners in Tuscon, Arizona. And if there are not, then how the fuck did the guy get from that pic to shooting people in the fucking head.
How?
This is just so sad… and for what? What kind of point did he prove? ugh
They said he was in the Army in Afghanistan.
There will be no common sense reaction. Some special interest group will try to take it over instead of having a health care system that can deal functionally with disturbed people somewhere between they have more rights than you and I and throw them in jail after they kill someone.
I couldn’t believe this when I first heard it. It sounded like some kind of warped political commentary since she was having a town hall meeting.
Now they have said he was not in the Army and there may be another guy.
Has anyone really said anything new since this story broke that you couldn’t just read in five minutes in the morning paper? That is if there were still newspapers.
It may sound fucked up, but my first thought after reading this was, “Thankfully she wasn’t a Republican”…
Just because it would have been more fuel for the tea partiers and other fringe elements, that’s all. I actually hope that someone finds video of Jared Loughner at a tea party rally somewhere. I won’t be surprised.
Obviously, the books made him do it. BAN BOOKS! You know it’s write!
What is wrong with people!? That is my phrase today. People are nuts. And HOW could anyone ever hurt a child? What kind of sick person? Gaaa.
Cassie… what’s wrong with people? Tell me!