You're right; we need to keep this one on topic.

yeah we need to get back on track. I don't even know what were arguing about now :06:

Quite shocked that this has happened, was there a reason for the shooting?

We're not sure yet. The shooter's ramblings are all over the place. He was clearly disaffected, but it is unclear as to how or why.

It appears it was the doings of some kid who's generally crazy, not specifically crazy.

Here's some of his YouTube videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHoaZ...ayer_embedded#!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnNx0...layer_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uRjw...layer_embedded

Didn't stop everyone here from jumping to conclusions, though. And you watch, he'll be paraded by both sides as illustrations of the dangers of the other side. He'll be called a Teabagger by the left, and Fox News will get ahold of his ramblings and call him a communist or socialist. He'll be used as a political tool. Just you wait.

According to what I've seen in various places, it was because the shooter was a right-wing teabagger, a left-wing socialist, a nazi, an atheist, a nutcase, a Glen Beck/Sarah Palin/Rush Limbaugh fan, a patriot, a conservative, a liberal, a conspiracy theorist, and just about everything else...

oh yeah. im sure news writers are already hard at work. the whole internet has found that you tube, so naturally fox and cnn probably already have it.

Obama: 'Tragedy for Our Entire Country'
 

President on Rep. Giffords shooting,

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4490012/o...ylist_id=86856


Note: Update record, January 08, 2011

He was a unicorn, too???? :wah:

Seriously, though - it speaks volumes both about us and our society that this issue will be used to leverage political agendas. I don't think I like what it says.

And I've yet to find a justifiable reason for killing a kid for political purpose.

Justification is always in the eye of the beholder. I find myself seriously wondering if the internet has made people less or more reactive. Nations could go to war in a groundswell of indignation over news in print. Now we get a plethora of opinion almost instantly that usually is village gossip gone wild mixed with factual reporting.

To put that on topic, there is so much information now, people are forced to cherry pick what floats their boat and in his case, pull him down his merry old path to destruction. Does that make sense?

RBO/WorldNetDaily wasted no time finding a classmate who called him a left winger. Apparently Twits found a classmate of his on Twitter and have been peppering her with questions about him... including low-brow questions about his political orientation.

EDIT: And the Daily Kos wasted no time on their end, either.

Agree that it's a sad commentary on our society that this is just leverage now. (Well, not just now, "dancing in the blood of the victims" has been a tactic around since the 90s at the minimum... but still.)

Yes it does make sense. When it comes to the drone of 24-hour news and information, it is the often the loudest and least reasonable voices that tend to stand out. For someone who is in effect lost, those are the bits that are selected.

Why do many call this a tragedy?

This was no tragedy, that would apply to a act of God event of some sort.

This was nothing short of an outrage.

I am glad she is responding and my prayers to all the others as well.

It is a tragedy that an innocent child was slain.

Yeah, the adults are bad enough, but a 9 year old. The shooter needs a needle in his arm.