Lets start this with acknowledgment that the events of the Jan. 8, 2011 shooting in Tucson, Ariz. which left six dead and 14 wounded was a tragedy.
Not the “I’m trying to be the first person to survive this very dangerous situation but I died” type of tragedy; more of the taking life from a nine year old kid type of tragedy.
The events have happened and I am sympathetic to those who have lost loved ones and colleagues; I started this post because I’m disappointed (though not surprised) in the manner in which it is being treated in the media.
Neoconservative media persons, while vitriolic, are not responsible for the actions of Jared Lee Loughner.
AZ immigration laws (SB 1070), while misguided & error filled, have nothing to do with Jared Lee Loughner.
Marijuana use is not responsible for the actions of Jared Lee Loughner.
Gun control, or better lack there of, is not responsible for the actions of Jared Lee Loughner.
I’m not a doctor but since typing this gives me authority I’m going to assert that Jared Lee Loughner was bat-shit crazy. He wasn’t born that way, but somewhere along the line his brain went hay wire (Google his loony-as-hell youtube videos). So assuming (as we should) that we are sane, we are incapable of understanding the mental connections of a schizophrenic. So lets just say he was nuts and leave it at that?
Well not exactly, you see if we had a functional national health care system we might have been able to give this seemingly deranged individual some treatment that would have avoided this mess. So while we’re playing pin the tragedy on the social issue-I’m picking Nationalized Universal Health Care.
Finding reason, assigning blame-helps cope with the tragedy I guess; let’s universal health care our way along the pathway to healing.
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