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.
Should I have told you to watch TV or play a videogame instead? Instead of defining down your intelligence(you are still being irrational) I told you to calm down and do something else besides get crazy on here. You are not a troll, but your hyperbole on the first post makes me wonder if you will go over to the Middle East and tell Ahmadinejhad to calm down his inner demon. Afterall you did say that the Left loves bringing themselves down to the level of an unrepetant psychopath. It beats actually having to do something right?
I will respond to the rest as I find you to have more tact than a Murray Mom, and I just will ask you to link to a post that has you acting like a missionary to the Left. Did FTL advocate death? No. Instead what he said was that, as usually found on DU, the Left is itching to start something. And that the government and the Media is only eager to help, the Media bringing PR, and the government legalizing it. Understand now?
BTW, Liberals did do the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution. So I don’t really think that Liberals are non-violent. Shock and awe in revolutions is a Liberal trademark. Also using the word “Hate”. So what is so bad about hate? Do you hate President Bush? Do you hate somebody on the street?
So if you hate something like that, do you align yourself with those who want to kill? The answer may be no.
Remember this gunman was a nut who only went after the Liberal movement because they were “taking his jobs”. Out of all of the criticisms of Liberals on here, do we find some passionate Conservative who ran out of food stamps advocating that Liberals are bad because they are taking the good jobs? Part of being a Conservative is realizing that there might be a bias in employment in the opinion centers but that Free Market values advocate making a tree out of a seed.
I hate to tell you this but your arrow is rusted and the target is 500 miles away.