[snip] “....The shooting comes amid a highly charged political environment that has seen several dangerous threats against lawmakers but nothing that reached the point of actual violence.
A San Francisco man upset with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s support of health care reform pleaded guilty to threatening the Democratic congresswoman and her family, calling her directly on March 25 and threatening to destroy her Northern California home if she voted for health care reform.
In July, a California man known for his anger over left-leaning politics engaged in a shootout with highway patrol officers after planning an attack on the ACLU and another nonprofit group. The man said he wanted to “start a revolution” by killing people at the ACLU and the Tides Foundation.
Giffords herself has drawn the ire of the right, especially for her support of the health care bill from politicians like Sarah Palin.
Her Tucson office was vandalized a few hours after the House vote to approve the health care law in March, with someone either kicking or shooting out a glass door and window…….”
TERRY TANG and AMANDA LEE MYERS, AP
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/7372146.html
As seen on Twitter: shooter is deranged athiest leftist Jared Loughner,among fave books:Marx’s Communist Manifesto
As seen on Twitter: shooter is deranged athiest leftist Jared Loughner,among fave books:Marx’s Communist Manifesto
I notice the reporters don’t mention the long history of liberal violence. Like the recruiting office bombing or was that a shooting. That was pretty recent.