Reply #18: There are people like Loughner throughout the US.

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They are unstable and easily influenced. Like the adulterous woman who whispers to her boyfriend how she wished her husband were dead, and then the boyfriend murders the husband. The corporate media whispers to the crazies until they act on the suggestion.

If the right wing had not been pushing their violent rhetoric and hate, using guns as their symbol of strength, Loughner might have found a different target and might have used different means to attack the target. But that is not what happened.

You can NOT avoid this right wing hate and violence speech. You turn on the radio, it's there. You turn on the TV, it's there. You pick up a newspaper it's there. You go to a book store or library, it's there. You visit the internet, it's there.

Even the majority of waiting rooms, in businesses, transportation facilities and health establishments play Fox around the clock to entertain their customers. Loughner was exposed to this constant drum beat. He picked his target based on this constant drum beat and Sarah's map.

Yes he was crazy. But even crazy people are manipulated by the corporate media for fun and profit.

If instead of this constant drumbeat of hate toward liberals, glorification of violence and weapons ownership as a show of strength, he had heard that we should all get along. If he had constantly been exposed to the idea that people have every right to have their own opinions, that though liberals maybe wrong they are people too and have the same rights as you do. If he heard that instead of what is out there, then he may not have been so violent and would have chosen a different target.

Sarah and the RW hate corporations did not pull the trigger but they aimed Loughner's weapon.