Konservatives Kondone Killing?

[Cancel8]

Do conservatives condone killing?

Do they?

 

[Jarod]

I voted no because I belvie that in general they do not, there is a fringe group that does, but the way the question was worded indicated that they as a group do, and I disagree.

 

[Cancel8]

..."We don't know why the Tucson killer did what he did.

If he is like Sirhan, we'll never "understand."

But we know that it has been a time of extreme, implicitly violent political rhetoric and imagery, including SarahPac's famous bulls-eye map of 20 Congressional targets to be removed -- including Rep. Giffords.

It is legitimate to discuss whether there is a connection between that tone and actual outbursts of violence, whatever the motivations of this killer turn out to be.

At a minimum, it will be harder for anyone to talk -- on rallies, on cable TV, in ads -- about "eliminating" opponents, or to bring rifles to political meetings, or to say "don't retreat, reload..."

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/01/the-cloudy-logic-of-political-shootings/69147/

 

[USFREEDOM911]

I voted no because I belvie that in general they do not, there is a fringe group that does, but the way the question was worded indicated that they as a group do, and I disagree.

Please don't feed the troll

 

[Cancel8]

..."Alarm around tea party protests cropped up last year when tea partiers began showing up armed. One much-publicized incident involved a man who carried a high-powered rifle to an anti-Obama rally close to where the president was speaking in Phoenix..."

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politi...allies-given-preferential-treatment-by-police

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politi...tion-between-healthcare-reform-and-gun-rights