Canadian Opinion

The Sun Times

Wake of mass killing not the time for Palin to go into self-defence denialmode


"Sorry, Sarah, but you're wrong. Any reasonable person, who sets their political biases aside for a moment to reflect, can see the connection between your website map and at least a potential act of violence. Whether or not the person now in police custody in Tucson for the shooting actually saw your website and in some sort of twisted way saw it as sanctioning an act of mass-murder is irrelevant. That possibility was there, and you should have known that. At least, in the aftermath of the attack, you should have had the decency and sense to take the website down, and admit it was a mistake, instead of going into self-defence denial mode.

"Palin has some serious soul-searching to do about her present and future career plans. She is clearly out of her depth, beyond her limits, as a opinion-maker and would-be leader of the U.S.

"The all-pervasive gun culture mentality of American society must also share some of the blame for what happened. That such a person, clearly crazy, and apparently already known to have mental health problems, can just walk into a gun store and buy a semi-automatic firearm is incredible. And yet any suggestion that U.S. gun-control laws, such as they are, should be toughed up is invariably met with cries of righteous outrage from right-wing talk-show hosts and other self-appointed pundits."

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