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So you won't care if someone (or many people) who all just happen to be hyper-conservative, plants ideas in the heads of violent anti-government (often racist, sexist or fascist) nuts and "urges them to act" or "eggs them on?"

In 1996 I was eating lunch in a Red Robin in Colorado with a lot of children around and there were three folks who had just been attending the guns show down the street and were talking. A young couple was starting to look a little troubled by the guy they must have met there who kept talking about "killing cops" and how great Reagan was and getting louder and turning red. Remember when police around the country tried to get a ban on hollow point/dumdum/'cop-killer" bullets but the NRA made sure that didn't happen? People forget that before 9-11 there was a lot of talk from the extreme right about perpetrating violence on police.

Now it's starting up again.

And it liberals pushin' it sonny.

It's (neo)Cons.

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sonofreason - It seems quite obvious that stress caused by the Bush recession played a factor in this deranged person's mind.

However, people react to stress in different ways. Some may go into a depression and withdraw from society. Some commit suicide. Some become galvanized into action. Some lash out at their spouses or children.

Therefore, it seems equally obvious that this Poplawski fellow responded to his irrational fears caused by the paranoid warnings of the gun-rights movement.

Of all the choices of behavior, he picked this SPECIFIC ONE - to kill policemen he thought were coming to take his guns away.

The irresponsible and incendiary claims of the gun lobby about guns being taken away caused Poplawski to react by killing instead of reacting in another mode of behavior.

Therefore, no matter how you evade, dodge, and deny it, the rabid right does have a deep culpability in causing this tragedy.

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Thanks hefaa1-

I think prophyp got confused by the story being widely reported from the "Tribune-Democrat" newspaper which is from Johnstown Pennsylvania and closely covered the Pittsburgh news story.

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