"There are no words that can possibly express how we feel," Randy and Amy Loughner wrote in a statement handed to reporters waiting outside their house. "We wish that there were, so we could make you feel better. We don't understand why this happened.
"We care very deeply about the victims and their families. We are so very sorry for their loss."
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If Tudamorf can blame people that this whack job never met inspiring him.
It is more likely that these married people had a lot more influence over this man's actions and belief system.
Since they were married, then marriage itself must be responsible.
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I don't think his parents encouraged him to assassinate a member of Congress -- at least, I've seen no evidence of it.Fyyr wrote:If Tudamorf can blame people that this whack job never met inspiring him.
It is more likely that these married people had a lot more influence over this man's actions and belief system.
Since they were married, then marriage itself must be responsible.
However, the tea party nutjobs do so on a regular basis, and target their hate speech towards people like this who are most susceptible to it.
You don't have to physically meet the leaders of a terrorist organization to become one yourself.
And that's what they are, terrorists.
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Well they raised him, no?
Hell, he was living with them. And yet they had no influence on him.
But people he does not know did?
Hell, he was living with them. And yet they had no influence on him.
But people he does not know did?
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Did they teach him to fear and hate other people and use violence?Fyyr wrote:Well they raised him, no?
Hell, he was living with them. And yet they had no influence on him.
But people he does not know did?
Tea party members do.
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Sounds like you fear and hate tea party people.
Who taught you to do that?
Who taught you to do that?
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There's a difference between fearing people who intend to do you harm, and fearing people just because they're different.Fyyr wrote:Sounds like you fear and hate tea party people.
Who taught you to do that?
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So, it's ok then to rationalize your fear and hate of other people?
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Are you purposely being obtuse here? Or is this just libertarian black-and-white syndrome at work?Fyyr wrote:So, it's ok then to rationalize your fear and hate of other people?
Just because fear-mongering is bad, doesn't mean the emotion of fear should be eliminated from the human race.
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You're being hypocritical.Tudamorf wrote:Are you purposely being obtuse here? Or is this just libertarian black-and-white syndrome at work?Fyyr wrote:So, it's ok then to rationalize your fear and hate of other people?
Just because fear-mongering is bad, doesn't mean the emotion of fear should be eliminated from the human race.
And you don't know it, or acknowledge it.
There is nothing obtuse about that observation.
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Are you unable to grasp the difference between fearing something yourself, and trying to make other people fear it?Fyyr wrote:You're being hypocritical.