Friday, August 17, 2012

When the Deranged Shooter Came from the Left...

Warner Todd Huston reports on how reluctant the mainstream (left-leaning) media are to mention another homicidal maniac's left-wing background, compared to how eager some media people are to publicize any possible connections between a homicidal maniac and the Old Right...

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/08/15/Family-Research-Council-Shooting-Suddenly-Media-Not-Ready-to-Blame-Politics-for-a-Mad-Gunman-s-Crimes?utm_source=e_breitbart_com&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Breitbart+News+Roundup%2C+August+16%2C+2012&utm_campaign=20120816_m113296961_Breitbart+News+Roundup%2C+August+16%2C+2012&utm_term=More\

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/08/15/Family-Research-Council-Shooting-Suddenly-Media-Not-Ready-to-Blame-Politics-for-a-Mad-Gunman-s-Crimes

(If you still have to type a link into your browser, I just tested--the short version works just as well as the full-length version does, from this computer.)

Meanwhile, I have to ask: What about the shooters' psychological backgrounds? There seems to me to be a more direct connection between the use of certain drugs, legal or illegal, and violent insanity, than there is between violent insanity and political opinions, Left or Right.

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