Reply #5: Even so

[affrayer]

...because there is no statement from Loughner or his designated representative.

And would you trust such a statement made after he was arrested?

What we do have is a fare amount of material he posted to communicate his "cough cough" beliefs. Many of those beliefs can be traced back to right wing pundits like Beck or http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/1/8/21576/68127">Chip Berlet.

None the less, absent any imaginable excuse that offers an even remotely plausible reason for his actions, this individual must be considered bonkers...

But just being bonkers doesn't explain why he targeted Giffords.