Sarah Palin Worse Than Hitler

... that hasn’t stopped people blaming Sarah Palin for the shooting. The reason? She listed the politician shot in Arizona as one of the main political targets of the Republicans, and placed a gun sight over her district....There were two political movies made by people on the left about George W. Bush being assassinated, and neither of them presented the scenario with any regret.

We live in crazy times.

Well, actually, times have been "crazy" for quite a while. Politicians are assassinated on a low but fairly regular basis and it has been that way since the time of the Roman Republic. Let's just say that being assassinated is a well known occupational hazard for politicians.

We all know that jokingly pointing any firearm at anybody, loaded or not, is not a joke at all. That is one of the things that a responsible gun owner NEVER does under ANY circumstances.

Likewise, it is really not very wise, on anybody's part, to joke or flippantly use lethal force analogies, especially in regards to politicians (an occupation belonging to the "Assassinated on a Regular Basis Club") any more than it is wise to joke or flippantly talk about bombs at an airport.

Using the telescopic sight of a hunting or a sniper rifle to mark an electorally targeted incumbent politician when one of these ( ✔ ) will do just fine is really not the brightest thing to do.

Was the mentally unstable shooter influenced by the Palin hunting scope graphic?

Nope.

Did the Palin hunting scope graphic give the Left ammunition (pardon the lethal force analogy) to use against her?

You betcha.

Whatever political fallout comes is a self-inflicted wound.

Palin’s map used crosshairs from a surveyors sight.

Not really.

Palin is not known for "surveying". She is known for Alaska hunting. Everybody "gets it" and everybody "gets" what the cross-hairs were.

"I'm 'targetting' these political incumbents with my hunting scope as if they were caribou. Ha, ha."

I do not do any Alaska hunting, but I do engage in Alaska sport fishing. You do have to club large halibut senseless with a club when you get them on the boat and you do "bleed" a tired out king salmon by slitting it's gill artery while it is still in the water.

What Palin did would be analogous to my putting a knife symbol or an image of a bloody club on the district of a political opponent if I were "targeting" him or her politically.

It was not the brightest political move since getting assassinated is a well known political hazard for politicians.

See Post 21.

I urge all of you to freep this clown’s article comment section and take him to task for trying to inflame things more while claiming he ‘cares’.

Speak out or lose your right to speak, that’s what is coming. That’s the direction these people are moving.

I understood this post as a heartfelt defense of Sarah Palin. The author pointed out the contrast between Palin attacks of no substance compared to real vitriolic attacks from the left such as the movies portraying the assassination of President Bush and numerous calls for him to be killed.

...the rhetoric used against conservatives is extraordinarily violent. This isn’t to excuse some of the excesses on the right, but the exploitation of this latest horror is positively vile.

I think you need to work on your reading comprehension. He referred directly to the VILE exploitation from the Left of the assassinations in Arizona.

His last paragraph is really on point!

This is a time to consider and reflect. Not for atheists to announce that they are “praying” for the families and the victims. I’m so tired of hearing people who do not believe in God suddenly telling the world that they are communicating with Him. Don’t lie, just care.

Notice how Palin’s ‘sight’ has crosshairs that extend past the outer circle? That’s a map-coordinate marker, not a gun scope.

You imply that, since the image has "crosshairs that extend past the outer circle" therefore, it cannot be a rifle scope because the crosshairs cannot extend beyond the scope itself. Therefore, it must be a "map-coordinate marker" like those orange tear-drop things on Google map.

The "crosshairs that extend past the outer circle" are not the physical impossibility of crosshairs extending beyond the "outer circle" that represents the scope.

The image is a "Reticle Pattern".

A "reticle pattern" is the the pattern of lines, circles, squares, etc., that you see when you look through the sniper or hunting scope and the pattern is limited only by the imagination of the scope designer.

If you want a hunting scope with a reticle pattern where the crosshairs "extend past the outer circle", try this one: (Click the images to enlarge the images of the reticle pattern)

EOTech 557.G23FTS Holographic Weapon Sight ...... "The reticle provides 4 aiming dots for target distances of 0-300m, 400m, 500m, and 600m. When viewed without magnification, the 65 MOA circle and fine center 1 MOA aiming dot are used, ensuring precision accuracy."

But, we are really up to our eyeballs in technicalities right now, aren't we?

Do you think that the general public knows the difference between "rimfire" and "centerfire" or has the slightest clue what different reticle patterns are used in hunting scopes?

No, they do not.

All they know is that the particular reticle pattern used as an image in Sarah Palin's map represents a sniper or hunting scope.

This is where Sarah Palin utterly fails as an electable Presidential candidate:

Palin is fantastic at "preaching to the choir" and engaging in all the "inside jokes" that the choir loves.

However, Palin is totally tone deaf in regards to what plays outside of her choir.

We, who grew up learning to shoot, who engage in so-called "blood sports" and who have military service are pretty matter-of-fact about guns and gun analogies.

"Yeah, Sarah's targeting liberals as if they were caribou. Ha, ha!"

That mindset, however, does NOT hold true for the majority of the voters who will choose the next President of the United States.

Sarah Palin tried to be "cute" about mixing her hunting image with her political image and she has now given her political opponents a huge issue to beat her over the head with.

If Sarah Palin had wanted to use "map-coordinate markers", she should have had the common sense to use a symbol other than the gun scope reticle pattern that is most commonly associated with a rifle scope in the mind of the general public.

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