Mueller doesn't rule out domestic terrorism - On Congress - POLITICO.com
Jared Loughner will be charged Sunday afternoon with the attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and the killing of Judge John Roll and others in Tucson, Ariz., FBI Director Mueller said Sunday....
Mueller declined to comment on Loughner’s possible motives, but added: “The ubiquitous nature of the Internet means that hate speech and other inciteful speech is much more readily available ... than it was eight or 10 or 15 years ago, and that absolutely presents a challenge for us.”
Normally I don't like this kind of argument but I'm making an exception: If this guy Loughner looked even remotely middle-eastern, or Mexican, or, for that matter, were anything but snow white there would be people running in the streets right now screaming eek! terrorists! and demanding scanners and pat-downs on every street corner, you know there would. But because Loughner is a white guy and presumably a U. S. citizen he's just a solitary wackjob, not influenced in any way by any right-wing blabbering about Second Amendment solutions and "if ballots don't work, bullets will" (and Rand Paul helpfully chirps "guns don't kill people, blah blah") but, of course, there's the internet.
Guns may not kill people but you'll have a really hard time convincing me this guy could have done as much damage as he did with a tire iron.
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