Exclusive: Loughner Friend Explains Alleged Gunman's Grudge Against Giffords
At 2:00 a.m. on Saturdayabout eight hours before Jared Lee Loughner allegedly killed six people and wounded 14, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.)he phoned an old and close friend with whom he had gone to high school and college. The friend, Bryce Tierney, was up late watching TV, but he didn't answer the call. When he later checked his voice mail, he heard a simple message from Loughner: "Hey man, it's Jared. Me and you had good times. Peace out. ... Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu - via Mother Jones, Memeorandum, Tshiung Han See (t), Jon Mitchell (t), Seth Roberts Farber (t), Randy Benson (t), David K. Miller (t)
Since mental institutions were closed under Reagan, mental health care was given junk staus, controls on gun sales were neutered, and civil politics were abandoned and replaced by the polemics of demonization expressed incessantly by Fox and friends in the words of warfare, it comes to this. Fools and the insane are given the atmosphere and the tools to destroy what is best in our society, having been enabled and encouraged by wealthy owners of the congress and the worst in the media.