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...Democrats were running for re-election; those Democrats were noted by crosshairs symbols like those seen through the scope of a gun. Ms. Giffords was among those on Ms. Palin’s map….”

There's no explaining the emotionally disturbed, enhanced with the addition of ignorance and anger management issues.

Crosshairs are used in dozens of instruments other than firearms. Off the top of my head, there are surveying transits, theodolites and levels; Tracking of space-related activities; microscopes; astronomic telescopes. Focusing on anything far away is not always on the mounts of a rifle.

Further, people who don't know the difference between the word "niggardly" and the "N" word are unlikely to have even a tenuous grasp of metaphors and other nuances of speech.

I suppose we can now expect a new Federal law against spoken English not understood by the ignorant, the militant progressives and the insane.

Some members of all parts of the political spectrum tend to be insane, mentally unbalanced and suffer from anger management issues. My opinion is that these afflictions are more in evidence on DU (aka Democratic Underground, aka Deficients Union) and other no-holds-barred-language communities, but people can go check for themselves.

But oddly, only conservative spokesmen can arouse the mentally marginal to violence. Neither an arrogant elected political community nor the radical "progressives" who mouth violence and profanity daily, can adversely effect the marginally mentally incompetent.

Odd, that.

They lie through their teeth Plblius6961 and they’re lapping this up like dog vomit.

Here’s how it’s being reported in the Phoenix paper:

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“...Obama said he had called Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and offered the full resources of the federal government and promised investigators would get to the bottom of the shooting.

“We don’t know yet what provoked this unspeakable act,” Obama said.

Brewer appeared visibly shaken at a news conference as she said “I am just heartbroken.”

Brewer said she has ordered flags in Arizona to be flown at half staff. She called the shooting “an unbelievable tragedy’ for the people of Arizona. She called Giffords a friend.

“I’ve grown to love and respect her. She never really played partisan politics. She was serious about her work,” Brewer said. “She is a very gracious public servant.”

Brewer was asked if how the shooting reflected on Arizona.

“It certainly doesn’t show favor on the state of Arizona, but we have a lot of good decent people here,” Brewer said.

On Saturday afternoon, about 60 to 70 people had gathered outside Giffords’ office on Swan Road in Tucson.

The mood was somber. At one point 35 people held hands in a circle, as motorists drove by honking in support. People were getting information from texts and mobile devices. At times they sang “Give Peace a Chance.”

Among the wounded in Saturday’s shooting were two Giffords staffers who were expected to recover: Ron Barber, Giffords’ district director; and Pam Simon, a community outreach worker....”