There has been a horrific massacre in Tucson, Arizona today. The killing happened at a supermarket where Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords was holding a public gathering. Representative Giffords, who has suffered a critical wound to her head, appears to have been the intended target of the shooter. Eighteen other people were also wounded and six people, including a 9-year-old girl and Arizona's chief federal judge, were killed. The suspected gunman, a 22-year-old man named Jared Louughner, is in custody. Loughner may have had an accomplice, whom authorities are looking for now.
This is a shocking, horrific, and utterly senseless tragedy. And the worst part is that there've already been attempts to politicize it. Pima county sheriff Clarence Dupnik blamed the shootings on "certain mouths" spewing "prejudice and bigotry". Gabrielle Giffords' father pegged the Tea Party as his daughter's enemy. The Daily Kos, a far-left blog, also imputed blame to the Tea Party movement for the killings. Fox News has also been blamed. This is the height of irresponsibility, especially in light of emerging information that Loughner was mentally disturbed.
The disgusting practice of trying to destroy one's political opponents by exploiting tragedy must stop. The rush to judgment by the Left was particularly unseemly. What we need to be doing is expressing our condolences to the families of the dead while earnestly praying for healing for the wounded. In short, we need to come together as Americans, blaming no one but the killer(s) for this incomprehensible carnage and drawing strength from our commonality. In the face of horrors like the massacre in Arizona we are human beings first, Americans second, liberals and conservatives last. We should have the grace and compassion to act like it.
4 comments:
I think that your last lines should have included that we are Americans second, and liberals and conservatives last.....but you are right. This was a horrible thing to have happen, and it was worse than horrible at the quickness of the policians to push politics into it. FOR SHAME!!!
"FOR SHAME!!!" is right, Robert.
The Left's rush to judgement is simply explained: IT'S ONE OF THEIR OWN, AGAIN, THAT PERPETRATED THE MINDLESS VIOLENCE. And that is what the Left wishes to blur by throwing dishonesty and misinformation up to distort the fact of their own vile hatred being the trigger.
The Left: dishonest, corrupt and corroded to their very core.
"The Left: dishonest, corrupt and corroded to their very core."
Amen, Skunky!
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