Climate of Hate in the US
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Arizona Shootings: Our Moment of Silence Needs to Be Followed by More Than Just Lowered Voices
"A little soul searching." That is what Clarence Dupnik, the Sheriff of Pima County -- and good friend of both Congresswoman Giffords and Judge John Roll -- said our country needs to engage in. And while we don't know all the facts yet and the story is still unfolding, we know enough to know that we need more than a little soul searching.
It is appropriate, however, to consider what was swirling outside Loughner's head. To call his crime an attempted assassination is to acknowledge that it appears to have had a political and not merely a personal context. That context wasn't Islamic radicalism, Puerto Rican independence, or anarcho-syndicalism.