Sometimes the obvious needs pointing out anyway. I wrote about the Knoxville shooting on this blog, but needless to say, it was part of a larger pattern. And the common link is the shooter's immersion in the world of people like Bill O'Reilly and Glen Beck.
We do have serious differences of opinion here. We strongly believe that there's a clear, common-sense connection between the paranoiac fearmongering that has passed for right-wing rhetoric since well before Obama's election (and has become acute since) and violence like that in Pittsburgh, or in Knoxville: horrifying tragedies, in which the sources of the criminal's unambiguous motives are that very same hysterical fearmongering -- whether it's about the evil socialists, stinking immigrants, or conspiring gun-grabbers who've taken over the country since Election Day.
H/t mcjoan at DailyKos.
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