Calm down, you are freaking out about how FTL is posting about the usual double standards of the Media when reporting crime.
Anyways, my feeling on this guy is that he had deranged postal worker syndrome after getting denied other people’s money. Just like the shooter at that one mall, something snapped and getting desperate he used the same ugly feelings that gave him gubmit drug withdrawal syndrome and started shooting at people in a Church because he might’ve been Socially Conservative(as the hating of homosexuality argument was) or he wanted to take his anger out at somebody which is typical of groups of people stoned on gubmit drugs. Perhaps he meant the New Left, in his motive, which is more concerned about the Environment and special groupings than about his welfare. Who knows? Frankly who cares, he is still a few marbles shy of Chinese Checkers.
I’ll tell you upfront(and you can write this on a Studies of the Right Wing book) that these kinds of guys will probably not be on here, FR and other blog/Right-Wing Discussion boards as most people on here(if not almost all) are not mental cases. Eccentric, some of them are, but not nuts like this gunman was. I believe in a world where the Federal Government takes its pieces and makes it become privatized, but I will not walk into a government department and start shooting at people. In fact guns are advocated, on this board, in terms of self-defense and by those who feel that somebody holds a tyrannical grip over them(I know that there are more reasons).
Regardless of the theology utilized by the Unitarians, that doesn’t dignify a nut to act like the rash of shootings that the Media always trumpets. Thankfully only two people died. If there is any hope, the third death should be used on the gunman. Much like the JDL bomber and the guy who shot the Abortion doctor, I don’t find this guy to be dignifiable of life, or as part of my ideological/theological kin.
There is a place where he will go, and hell has no political prejudices.
I hope that that settles it. Calm down and read a book. I know that you are not a troll, but calm down. To think of this guy as being some legitimate calling to arms for some secret Right-Wing death beast movement is hysteria.
Even here on Free Republic, most of the people you encounter are at least relatively moderate. It's easy for the real zealots to be lost in the crowd. However, they are out there. I have encountered two people who I can say with one hundred percent certainty would be more than willing to kill someone because of what that person believes. I have encountered many, many more who have expressed such a willingness, but whom I do not feel I know well enough to say anything with 100% certainty. Are these people a tiny minority? Yes, but it only takes one.
My purpose in posting here is to try to make you aware of the fact that this was not necessarily an isolated event. It is rather the most egregious symptom of an underlying problem, one that most in the Right do not realize exists. There is a tremendous amount of hate on the Right, and it unfortunately is very, very mainstream. That is why we were not surprised when this happened, and why we would not be surprised were it to happen again.
If you still don't understand what I'm talking about, read this even-handed editorial by Leonard Pitts, and this substantially more pissed off one by Lee Russ.
As for your contention that FTL was talking about double standards, he specifically mentioned "the next civil war".
As for you telling me to "calm down and read a book", I'm currently perusing a grammar of Khotanese Saka, as part of a project that I've been working on in my free time to catalog the evolution and differentiation of the Indo-European language family. I have refrained from insulting your intelligence, and would appreciate it if you would extend the same courtesy to me.