01-10-2011, 02:43 AM
Ca Bob wrote:
Why is it that he chose this particular congresswoman to assassinate? I suggest that the real answer will be a bit of a mix, but the major component had to have been the amplitude and the tone of the attacks against her by the right wing activists in the area and on the local media.
I am absolutely not trying to downplay the role that violence-inciting rhetoric may have played, but my gut feeling, having some understanding of and experience with schizophrenics, is that this event was simply easy for him to get to.