Ann Coulter Kills People
Aug. 4th, 2008 07:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hkellickThis has been bouncing around in my head a bit since K brought it up, but it's interesting nonetheless.
Last week, there was a shooting in a UU Church in.. Tennesse, I believe. Only two people died, but it's generally thought that it was only two people because A) one of the two people jumped in front of the gun to stop others from being hurt and B) they wrestled the guy down to the ground pretty darned fast.
There hasn't been much reporting of it. Certainly not nationally. Locally, it's gotten some.
What's interesting, I think, is that the assailant had a lot of Right-Wing stuff in his home. Bill O' Reilly's books, Ann Coulter's books, stuff like that. And he wrote a four-page long suicide note explaining how he had to do it because of “hatred of the liberal movement” and of “liberals in general, as well as gays.”
This strikes me as ironic.
In an age where people jump to blame TV, Music and Video Games for violence, then I want it known that Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter killed two people in Tennessee two weekends ago. Clearly, the guy was mentally ill. But, and however, Ann Coulter is just as much to blame for this as Marilyn Manson is for the Columbine Shootings. Or Grand Theft Auto III.
Mind you, I don't really blame Ann Coulter. Again, I think the fact was.. he was mentally unstable (again, I ask, though, how do these mentally unstable people keep managing to get guns. Hello?!?!), but... the irony amuses me.
Last week, there was a shooting in a UU Church in.. Tennesse, I believe. Only two people died, but it's generally thought that it was only two people because A) one of the two people jumped in front of the gun to stop others from being hurt and B) they wrestled the guy down to the ground pretty darned fast.
There hasn't been much reporting of it. Certainly not nationally. Locally, it's gotten some.
What's interesting, I think, is that the assailant had a lot of Right-Wing stuff in his home. Bill O' Reilly's books, Ann Coulter's books, stuff like that. And he wrote a four-page long suicide note explaining how he had to do it because of “hatred of the liberal movement” and of “liberals in general, as well as gays.”
This strikes me as ironic.
In an age where people jump to blame TV, Music and Video Games for violence, then I want it known that Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter killed two people in Tennessee two weekends ago. Clearly, the guy was mentally ill. But, and however, Ann Coulter is just as much to blame for this as Marilyn Manson is for the Columbine Shootings. Or Grand Theft Auto III.
Mind you, I don't really blame Ann Coulter. Again, I think the fact was.. he was mentally unstable (again, I ask, though, how do these mentally unstable people keep managing to get guns. Hello?!?!), but... the irony amuses me.
