Thinking About … Jared Loughner

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Thinking About … Jared Loughner

  • Cookie

    Not disgusted by his smile… more like terrified

  • Ibellmd

    If psychotic and paranoid (“crazy”) people keep to themselves, how do we identify the dangerous folk before they act out?

  • jonnyp

    Is it me or does he look like uncle fester?

  • Hansmoerdijk

    The more guns, the more killings!

  • Hansmoerdijk

    You allways seem to turn away from the real problem:access to guns and the power of the NRA.

  • Swaag

    Do not pass Go, Do not collect $200. Fry baby Fry. The sooner the better. If that guy is still sucking air within the year ….

  • Bergenconnie

    You can NEVER judge a book by it’s cover. I know many people who look as normal as normal can be, well dressed, educated, articulate, community leader’s who are more prone to commiting acts like Jared than anyone else. Save your judgement, you seem unaware of the complexities of Mental illness.

  • Swaag

    Wrong EuroMan…the crazies will always find another way.

  • Pkkt2002

    I believe the shooter in Tucson was paranoid schizophrenic. Since I had a brother (RIP)who was SCHIZOPHRENIC, I have sympathy for everyone involved. I believe that schizophrenia is a genetic disorder not unlike autism in that the symptoms set in at a certain age. The person appears normal until teens and early 20s at which time the disorder begins. If the person’s delusions and auditory halucinations are strong enough they will act upon them. As a family, we were told that nothing could be done for my brother unless he was a danger to himself or others. And unless the person did something that was a danger to themselves or others, the legal system could not do a thing. My brother was never willing to seek treatment because he was paranoid and did not think anything was wrong with himself – it was that everyone else was out to get them. It is a horrible mental disorder and the first defense is to make assault rifles and hand guns not be available. If people want to hunt animals, they can have their shotguns. Otherwise the likes of the murder of John Lennon, Son of Sam, Virginia Tech, Columbine and the Tucson shootings will continue and the dumb public will continue to ask why??????? Well, it is because the shooter is mentally ill! Rx get some control over guns (so they can’t get at them easily) and think of ways to help the mentally ill.

  • Hansmoerdijk

    If you are right the amount of crazy people must be at least 10 times higher in the USA then in the rest of the civilised world.nMakes you think,doesn’t it?

  • Touching poems

    Got single payer mental health care?n

  • Kelly

    Um, do you mean that you aren’t aware of any murders that happen outside of our borders? Do you think that the members of the Taliban have any trouble finding guns? When a person decides that their desire is more important than law, they will find a way to get the weapons necessary.

  • Hansmoerdijk

    I was talking about the “civilised” world and not about a country that is occupied by foreign armies !

  • Chris@TTP

    Please provide a few examples of the types of people you describe above coming even one iota close to committing a similar atrocity as that of Jared. The point of today’s piece was to say how hard it is to do anything until these people snap. If you have been following any of the news coverage provided 24/7 sincenSaturday you would know that EVERYONE around this kid knew he was a walking timebomb, but could do nothing about it.

  • Trey

    Do you mean the “civilized” world, where the citizens can spell?

  • Mizzle

    If more people had guns someone would have shot this whack job and saved lives and tax payer money in lawyer and trial fees. Why is he a suspect? Everyone saw him do it. Call a spade a spade and a killer a killer. Yes he is mentally ill, but after killing and injuring all those people he deserves to be put to death immediately. Preferably by public hanging. It’s a renewable resource and it makes a point to all our young people today that we aren’t going to take any more BS.

  • Mizzle

    Wrong. If just one person was carrying a concealed weapon they could have saved lives.

  • Mizzle

    So you would rather we just let the crazy people and criminals have all the guns right? We should all just try to defend ourselves with steak knives and baseball bats. nnYes, it makes me think you are looking at the wrong facts.

  • Mizzle

    Fixing healthcare and gun control are two different worlds. nnGun control IS insanity. Criminals and mentally ill people WILL get guns regardless of how you TRY to control them. The difference comes when the would-be victims happen to be armed as well. If someone comes into a place I happen to be and starts shooting I will shoot back. I will meet force with equal force and defend myself and those around me.nnIt comes down to this: When someone hijacks a plane YOU will sit and wait to die. I will tackle the bastard and try to save lives.

  • crazy

    I thought it was just me that noticed that. Yeah, uber-creepy.nnThe problem is not guns but the nuts that get their hands on them. Criminals will always find a way to get them, gun control laws just make it harder for average people to buy them.

  • Pkkt2002

    Yep, Gabrielle Giffords and the Judge and the 9 year old child and every one else injured or killed should have been armed and shot back after they were mortally wounded. It’s the wild, wild west!nYou can put the shooter to death but it is too late to help those who are dead or wounded. And observing public hanging will not prevent a mentally ill person from acting on their delusions.

  • Nope

    If gun control is NOT the issue, then why is it in countries that do have gun control, such as Canada, why are mass shootings that uncommon. nnnFurther, putting this man to death will do nothing more than add to the stigma on mental illness. What exactly will putting him to death accomplish? Will it bring people back? No. It has also been documented that the death penalty does NOT bring closure to the victims families. It also costs more to you, the American tax payer, to put someone to death then putting them in prison for life.

  • Anonymous

    The worst part of this tragedy is that every douche-bag is going to come out and politicize this issue. I’ve heard people say “He must be a disgruntled Tea-Bagger” or that the current state of politics is responsible. Legislation is being hastily proposed right now that can limit free speech, not to mention how the anti-gun lobby will eat this up. Even Obummer is involving himself. Wasn’t it Chris Matthews who said that since Clinton had the OKC bombing to shore up his numbers (and make the public forget about Whitewater?) and George W. Bush had 9/11 to boost his popularity (allowing the constitutionally questionable Patriot Act to pass), Obama needed some sort of diversionary tragedy to give him a needed boost before 2012 elections? This politicizing of any tragedy is truly sickening to me… and don’t get me started on the travesty which was the memorial service held in Tuscon with it “pep-rally” feel.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t have anything to say about Loughner that hasn’t already been said, but while reading the post “When Nuts Crack” I ran across one of my pet peeves: “They say you can’t judge a book by it’s cover…” There is no apostrophe in the word “its.” “It’s” (with an apostrophe) means “it is.” I really hate the dumbing down of writing that blogging has brought about.