I don’t know. If I had a neighbor like the talkative Wayne Smith, I might not want to get to know him either. It looks like the Loughners picked the worst possible neighbor to get their mail.
Normally I would agree but this man has inserted compassion into this story.
The talkative Mr. Smith is serving a useful purpose in humanizing a pair of people who remain mysterious, in circumstances that usually result in being raked over the coals by the news media. I find that very odd. No public appearance or statement whatsoever, not even a written one released to be read to the public.
Every other description of these parents by neighbors, etcetera has described them as distant and unfriendly, with Mr. Loughner being quite the hothead. Now he’s supposed to be some emo Mr. Mom on the word of a man who admittedly didn’t know them well enough to even know their last name. Sounds like more opinion shaping to me, just as we’ve seen all along.
We’re not being informed about the parents in any detail at all for a reason. I’d like to know just what that reason is, and I suspect it’ll shed a great deal of light on more than one peculiar aspect of this whole nightmare of a tale.