Spewing hate has consequences!

Conservative have history of bloody rhetoric.
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When rhetoric leads to real violence

My own thoughts: Anyone who could commit such a heinous act is a lunatic. Just because the killer might not be officially associated with any organization doesn't mean that the nasty unacceptable language used by the media and even elected leaders did not play a role. I'm not going to couch my disdain of the rhetoric that has implications in this tragedy. One cannot continually talk of such things as "2nd Amendment solutions" or specific talk of killing those with whom one disagrees without someone eventually acting on it. When it happens, of course it is a lunatic, but I'm not going to pretend that the constant vitriol and the clearly violent language used has no effect - is anyone here really going say there was no incitement when a sitting congresswoman who spoke out almost a year ago about being in "the crosshairs and this has consequences" gets gunned down? Ask yourself this: if a student went on a rampage in a school, and then they find out his friend has a page with students or classrooms in crosshairs that got shot, how do you think the authorities will treat that person? You really think they'd just ignore the complicity?

To be clear it's not just Palin's crosshairs page linked here, but the very long page I linked above of extremely violent rhetoric coming from the right side of the aisle. You want to say it happens on both sides, bring me examples that match what I posted: in sheer numbers, in the hateful bloody imagery used, and by people as big as those on the right (and I will equally denounce it). We're not talking unknown angry commentators, but people with huge followings such as Rush, Glenn Beck, O'Reilly, Coulter, Hannity, Savage, Erickson, and on and on ad nauseum. We're also talking about elected members of congress such as Boehner, Bachman, etc. I'm all for disagreement, but there are indeed consequences for the tenor of the rhetoric and only by pointing it out and linking it directly to real life events such as this and the killing of Dr. Tiller will it possibly change.

While my heart weeps for those needlessly killed, you bet I'm angry. People who are in positions of power are playing with fire, and just as predicted events like this are occurring. I will not stand silently by while the U.S. devolves into a 3rd world thug state. I want legal consequences for those who purposely incite violent solutions to disagreements. Know that your words have consequences and maybe you'll think twice about how your present yourself in front of millions of people, of which someone listening may, in fact, be crazy enough to act on those words.