Arizona Congresswoman Shot in the Head at Public Event

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Aramike

Okay, I just read most of this thread and feel compelled to insert my two cents due to absolute outrage. Quite frankly, it'll only be a function of typing over speech that expletives don't make an appearance:

People, a CONGRESSWOMAN is most likely near death, and a FEDERAL JUDGE is dead - that is a NATIONAL TRAGEDY, not political talking point.

In case you Americans trying to assign blame to any certain ideology, perhaps it escapes you that we have an electoral process designed to PEACEFULLY settle disputes on leadership according to Constitutional guidelines. The idea that ANY American would, rather than mourn the loss, prefer to draw parallels with ANY American, PEACEFUL movement is DISGUSTING, and those people should be ashamed of themselves. The fact that there are those of you who can't pause even a day in consideration of such tragedy is precisely the problem in a peaceful political process which causes DIVISIVENESS and ultimately, extremism.

Ask any extremist - they have plenty of facts to back up their views. The problem is that they twist the facts in order to justify foregone conclusions rather than examining said facts as a method of drawing such conclusions. And that is EXACTLY what I see happening by certain people in this thread.

Despite what you think about this Congresswoman's views, she's a duly elected representative of the people, and her opinions are permitted by the same Constitution which allows you to openly share yours. The same thing goes for those who are opposed to her views. The idea that either means a damn when one or two lunatics decide to engage in such atrocities is absurd and petty, and speaks volumes about the character of those who'd engage in such speculation, especially with no information or evidence supporting such claims.

Un-freakin'-believable.

I'll agree with you regarding this case, but overall Americans now have total distain for government. You have to remember this nation was founded because people got tired of a government taxing them without representation. As we become a two class society because of a failed government, I'm afraid instead of nutjobs, you'll see desperate people doing terrible things. In fact they do, crime has risen in about every state due to unemployment.

Your seeing Americans just now, lil too late as usual, try to fight back legally as new parties pop up, like them or not. The problem is most Americans didn't pay attention to the slow ruination of our nation.

Congressmen are now getting death threats way over the norm over various issues. However, we are a divided nation and getting worse.
We hate our partisan government, but we are even worse as a people.

We have an armed popuation, the government had better start taking that into consideration as they ruin this nation. I think soon you'll stop seeing politicians amongst the people.