Am truly troubled by the mass shooting.
As noted by many it makes no sense, though most of the main stream media attempts paint many in with tar, and even add feathers.
Read through the post. Not sure what the discussion is, was supposed to be about.
Rather than pick the usual sources for info, would like to offer from an article some info about the shooter. This is not the usual mainstream media source.
Who is Jared Lee Loughner? - International Business Times
Excerpt from the article:
".....
"Schoolmates of the alleged shooter describe Loughner as a loner, an ultra-liberal with a penchant for hard rock music, flag burning, and pot smoking," reports
Examiner.
Those who think he was lunatic should perhaps pause as evidence of some solid planning in the run-up to the murder has emerged.
According to
The New York Times, investigators from the FBI found an envelope in Loughner's house bearing handwritten words: "I planned ahead," "My assassination" and "Giffords."
VIEWS
Articles on the Internet variously describe him as a 'semi-literate' who was thrown out a local college, and whose writings display 'weird syllogisms' and 'unexplained numbers and references'.
Conversely, there are suggestions that he could be a well-read person who leaned over to the fringe theories concerning patriotism and government, especially to some pseudo-intellectual lines of thinking.
MANIACAL LEFTIST OF RIGHT WING FANATIC?
Was he a leftist? His personal heroes include Venezuela's communist leader and arch enemy of the U.S. Hugo Chavez as well as iconic revolutionary Che Guevara. But it's much more complex than it looks - his list also includes President
Barack Obama!"
While discussion of use of guns, ideology, motive are all good, factual info about the shooter is most useful as a starting point.
I don't know if the article is fully factually correct, it seems to me so far the best summation.