Remember when Gabby Giffords was shot...

[regnaD kciN]

...by a man with far-right sympathies, obsession with the "New World Order," and a history of sending hate mail to the Southern Poverty Law Center, how Republicans and the media were quick to deny any political motivation for his acts, describing him as merely an unbalanced individual who shouldn't be associated with his political affiliations?

This time around? Not so much...

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. MSM always covers for Republicans!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

29. Yes. I'm sick of it.

Real sick and tired of it.

[CousinIT]

31. They've ALL been using the phrase "anti-Republican" in describing the VA shooter

THEY CONSISTENTLY FAIL to mention that he was ALSO anti-Democratic/anti-Clinton. He hated both Trump and Clinton. He was NOT a 'Democrat'

I didn't hear it mentioned ONCE all day.

They're diapering Republican's asses.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. the republican assholes know they have pushed their shit too far, so this time it's all about

how much they are hated. They know they are hated and they know why too.

[dalton99a]

3. Exactly.

[Blue_Tires]

4. Hell, I remember the news cycle being alive with

"Obama's going to exploit this to grab all our gunz, isn't he?!?"

[meadowlark5]

5. Maybe if republicans now are at risk of

Getting shot, they'll do something about gun regulation.

For the most part it seems the angriest gun owners were conservatives/republicans - not gunning for republicans so no real reason for them to fear for their safety. But with easy access to guns and anger being stoked to a fevered pitch in this country, they might become targets. Eventually it all comes home to roost.

[DBoon]

6. They won't do anything about guns

They will regulate liberals instead

[pangaia]

22. I don't know if you intended to be sarcastic, but you are absolutely right.

It is the exact truth...

[Fritz Walter]

25. Au contraire

One of the Repuke snowflakes who was a bystander to this event said he wished he'd had a gun on him at the time.

I'll bet you half a peach that we're going to see some movement 💩 towards federal "Stand Yer Ground" legislation, which the NRA would be only-too-happy to draft, and then enthusiastically beat the war drum to pass.

And if (when) a recurrence of this kind of event happens, I would not want to be a LEO or other first responder on the scene, tasked with figuring out who's the hostile and who's the friendly.

[freddyvh]

7. GOP blaming Griffin

but they said Palin wasn't at fault for her targets.

hmm

[Ilsa]

32. Hannity claimed no one on the Left denounced

Griffin's stupid antics. He likes to lie, of course.

[lambchopp59]

35. Oh but of cooooourse! All part of the WHISIS divide and conquer strategy!

He knows his audience. Stoke the hate and now, the fear.

[kentuck]

8. This guy did it.

[Cha]

9. Gabby

Yes, right.. "don't make it political"

[DK504]

10. Exactly what I thought.

They way this will be spun by the psychotic Nazi's and RWNJ's will be horrible.

[lark]

11. Hypocricy should be every Repugs first name.

It's what they do most, be hypocritical, lie, spin and start again.

[flying-skeleton]

12. All Republicans are opportunistic A$$e$

[Raster]

13. But of course, this time it's a "national tragedy"...

...the hypocrisy runs deep in the GOP.

[global1]

14. I'm Glad You Brought Gabby Giffords Up....

Did Congress come together like they are talking today. We're all in this together. Dems & Repugs need to get along better.

Did the MSM talk about the protection of Congress people?

Did they say these things back then?

[onenote]

23. Yes. Members from both parties called for more unity and bipartisanship after Giffords was shot.

In fact, Boehner's statement about the Giffords shooting, which included the line "An attack on one who serves is an attack on all who serve" and Ryan's statement today, which included the line "An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us” are nearly identical in that regard.

[lunamagica]

15. And remember that a child was also killed. But that didn't matter either.

[dalton99a]

21. +1

[bora13]

16. they project their whining

and melted snowflake tears on their "opposition."

[elmac]

17. the fascists will play the victim game all week long. nt

[lambchopp59]

36. as an aid to deflect attention from...

And they'll get away with it. For a little while.

[stuffmatters]

18. Loughtner was also violently anti abortion, thrown out of Pima College for menacing female students

Always seems to be that violence, hatred ag women in their criminal and psychiatric pasts Yet these men always seem to have the legal right to buy assault rifles. .

It's the singlemost prevalent quality they all share. Today's guy had a horrible incident on his record.

[JHan]

19. take all the recs.

[MrPurple]

20. It's sickening how they're trying to manipulate this incident

I see all these Republican sheep in the political forum of a New England Patriots message board that I go to (mostly too frustrating to even look in there) posting about how the liberal MSM isn't covering that today's shooter was a Democrat, or how it's just like the "antifa" protesters showing how leftists become violent if they don't win.

They are undoubtedly repeating things from the unbiased, intellectually challenging media that they like to follow.

[LiberalLovinLug]

24. "antifas"

ie. Antifascists
I like how they loved to call Obama and the Democrats fascists, but now they are all for it apparently.

[Tarc]

28. "Antifa" has to be the most dimwitted attempt at a slur ever

Only a mind-numblingly stupid conservative mind could characterize someone who opposes fascism in a pejorative manner.

[IronLionZion]

38. How about social justice warrior?

I love how someone actually thinks that's a bad thing.

Or snowflake. Someone called me pajama boy and I didn't feel offended. That sounds comfy

[gfwzig]

26. Will he get a boat named after him (for getting shot in the ass?)

[MarianJack]

27. I also remember...

...how Sarah Palin(comparison) claimed that SHE was the true vicim of the shooting...SHIT!

PEACE!

[IronLionZion]

30. They disown every RW, white male, anti-government, domestic terrorist

and try to pin it on us. Why bother thinking about it? They don't think like we do. They use alt facts and create their alt truth.

They pin Islamic extremists on us and try to reduce our diversity and immigration and basic human rights. If we oppose war, they claim we are supporting the enemy. They desperately want to associate terrorism with brown people so bad it hurts their own brains from the logical somersaults.

The requirements for something to be an act of terrorism:
1. the unlawful use of violence and intimidation
2. especially against civilians
3. in the pursuit of political aims
4. dark sin

White males can never be profiled. Conservatives can't be terrorists. Never forget this important fact. It's settled and must never be questioned.

[lambchopp59]

34. Lambchopp whispers in Zion's ear: "WHISIS"

See my post below.

[lambchopp59]

33. Remind me again whose campaign slogan was "Stronger Together"?

And whose was "Make America Grunt Again". Well armed hoardes of grunting enemies. "Media"-the enemy. Nutjobs repealing any and all vulnerable measures of gun restrictions possible?
All part of divide and conquer. Stoke the hate, stoke the fear on both sides. The banal, racist, sexist WHISIS type and the "Burn down the Obama house at all costs" resentment.
And now they have their sacrificial lambs to deflect attention from...

[Atman]

37. An old friend I took some journalism classes with...he's one of them.

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We grew up together on Florida's Space Coast, when people still believed in science. I moved to New England, he moved to Montana (can you see where this is going).

We've had lots of good natured political sparring on FB, but I'm getting pretty tired of it. While he totally supports Trumpsky (he insists that since he was in the Navy, he knows about security clearances, and Hillary Clinton's emails were a threat to 'Murkca), he claims not to have voted for him (like back in the day when you couldn't find a W Bush supporter anywhere). But he still thinks Democrats are just making a big deal out of nothing, Trumpsky did nothing wrong, we're just making stuff up because we hate him.

His latest was one of his "thoughtful" Hallmark Card posts wherein he tries to sound all kumbaya, but it's totally transparent. He said "We must all be UNIFIED in our outrage over the VA shooting. It is just the opening salvo when the start shooting at our Representatives."

I reminded him of Gabby Giffords, and asked where was his "unified" outrage then, when a crazed right-winger shot one of our representatives in the head. Oh, and Mr. Navy, they named a ship after her. His only response was "Oh, so you're saying the Salise shooting was justified?"

There seems to be no ability within the Republican mind to think beyond A or B. It is very troubling. And it is made much, much worse when the so-called President of the United States fans the flames. Indeed, even lights the fire.

[KPN]

40. Sounds a lot like

me and one of my brothers. We don't talk directly too much these days.

[blueseas]

39. K&R