This Is A Start

I was going to make a comment about what happened yesterday afternoon last night, but was exhausted and went to sleep instead. So now that there is some time I can speak.

What happened in yesterday in Tucson was appalling. The fact people lost life for a political reason is disgusting. Politics are mean for a way for the country to govern itself, and these people are elected, but most of all, they are American. Yes, there are some "bad apples" in Washington, but people believing that all government is corrupt is wrong, and yes, there are some corrupt individuals on Capital Hill, but not all. There is no need to shoot someone for a political belief. It is a waste of human life, and not to mention a brilliant mind that this Gabby Giffords had. She was a closer to center democrat, and was always after bi-partisanship. This woman will never be the same after this event. Not to mention other victims of this mindless crime, a nine year old girl, granddaughter of former Mets, Phillie, and Yankee manager Dallas Green, and a federal judge, John Roll. All of which is blood that not need to be spilt, and for what?

This brings me to my main point.

The rhetoric that has been used for the past 18 months during this past political cycle has taken things too far. To the image that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin posted, which included 20 democrats running for office in 2010 and their districts in gun cross-hairs; to Sharron Angle statement "if we don't get our way, start shooting," and the threats that have been stated by people like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Bill O'Reilly, which have promoted violence too. Yes, there are people like Keith Olbermann and the MSNBC group, but Olbermann came out last night and one apologized for anything he may have said that could have incited violence, and called upon the extreme right three to do the same, and stop with the violent change. This is a start for change in a personality in how we are presented news entertainment.

Why should it be stopped? People that are unstable, like Jared Lee Loughner, start hearing things like that in media and start becoming paranoid about the government. It needs to stop, and news needs to be portrayed as news, and nothing else. He might not be the only one, there could be others out there. Luckily it wasn't someone that was able to get to the president. There are people out there that thought of it, I am sure. The arguments, and false facts that are brought up in the media needs to be stopped. Look what it has lead to. I am not saying that liberal media is innocent, but they aren't as violent as conservative media. In a country that was founded on peace, and a right to voice your opinion, it has gone to the way side. It is depressing to see what has happened.

I am hoping after this incident that we have learned, these are people in congress and politics. They are not animals that we can shoot because we don't agree with them. I hope Giffords survives, but if she does die, she will be the highest ranking official to be killed since 1968, when Robert Kennedy was killed.

Lets learn, and get it right.-SS