Hunting Liberals: When Wingnuts Attack
A guy loses his job, blames his woes on liberal social policies, and shoots up a church. Note to Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, Coulter, etc.: the blood of nine people is on your hands.
Yesterday, a gunman went into a church in Tennessee and opened fire with a shotgun. Two people were killed; seven others were wounded (some critically). As soon as I heard the news of this shooting, my first reaction was: right wing fundie gun nut gone wild.
It’s worse than I thought. In fact, my head is spinning. Here’s the lede from the report (AP can sue me or send me a bill):
An unemployed man accused of opening fire with a shotgun and killing two people at a Unitarian church apparently targeted the congregation out of hatred for its support of liberal social policies, police said Monday.
A guy lost his job. He’s pissed. His unemployment insurance ran out. Apparently, his food stamp eligibility had expired also. He blames his woes on liberal social policies. It would not be surprising to find that the guy spends most of his day tuned into the hate radio talkers.
Note to Limbaugh, Savage, Hannity, Coulter, etc.: The blood of 9 people in Tennessee is on your hands.
Update, 7/29: RJ at A Night Light confirms that authorities searching Jim Adkisson’s home discovered books written by Hannity, Savage, and O’Reilly. I’d say we have confirmation of my earlier speculation. More background and commentary here and here. Also, Joshua Holland has posted an excellent article at Alternet - well worth the read.
when I heard this story yesterday, it was the first notion in my mind, that the attack was because of the liberal nature of the church. I’m still waiting for the conservative press to reveal this aspect of the deadly attack.
Can you imagine the outcry if it had been a liberal going in to shoot up a fundamentalist church because conservative social policies had screwed up his life?
Steve, you’ll be waiting for a LONG time.
Drudge is reporting it.
Coulter and Malkin are already spinning it. Coulter’s calling this guy a liberal progressive.
Hmm. I guess I’m gonna hafta start bringing some of my collection of firearms to church with me just to protect the congregation from — wait for it — knee jerk, reactionary, ignorant, card-carrying Republican toads?
“Freedom - Reason - Tolerance” is what I’ve generally seen on Unitarian signs. You know there’s a lot of people who just can’t abide those 3 things at all.
Actually, Brendan, the Knoxville paper has an article that details the perp’s reading materials, just as A Night Light does.
Hate Media such as Savage, Hannity, and O’Reilly has consequences.
http://jackrabbitcafe.blogspot.com/2008/07/from-cnn.html
Ya and I’m sure if the homes of you libs were searched we would find copies of Das Kapital, or books by Lenin and Marx.
The main liberal problem is how to accept personal responsibility. A guy goes nuts and shoots up a church and you blame others for his crime. If the blood of those nine people are on conservatives then the blood of the Cambodian millions slaughtered by the Commies is on your hands. How about the public schools (controlled by liberals) the masses of children turned out unable to fill out a work application are on your hands also.