CBS poll shows most don't believe Giffords' shooting is due to politics

I never wanted my blog to be a political soapbox. Not only because I have mixed feelings about nearly everyone's viewpoint, but also for the best reason of all: Politicians don't pay me to fight their battles for them. I don't work for the fat man for free. I'm nobody's useful idiot. Sure, from time to time, I'll shill for a friend in comments, and feed the trolls, but that's because it's funny watching a zealot blow a gasket.

But after what happened out in Tucson last weekend with the dipshit Loughner shooting Congresswoman Giffords in an assassination attempt, and killing a few innocent bystanders, I've been hearing about some political figureheads suggesting legislation that would make “offensive language” illegal. That pisses me off.

Most people see what the deal is here. Loughner is a deranged and deluded young man who appears to have fixated on his target, due to some real or imagined slight by her towards him, years ago. This guy had problems long before Gabrielle Giffords even came into his life. His stupid act wasn't a result of “fury and vitriol” of the modern American political scene. Even a poll by CBS shows that most Americans don't believe it to be the case either. (Source link, since Google doesn't want anyone to link from their blog pages: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/11/politics/main7237404.shtml )

If you'll be so kind as to actually read that poll, you'll see one other little factoid, too. It's near the bottom of the poll that most people, across party lines do not believe stricter gun laws would have had any impact on the incident, either. In fact, the folks I've spoken with, who are able to converse in any language other than party line blatherspeak believe that we're sorta lucky he only had a gun, and not a truck bomb.

But really, limiting speech that one finds “offensive” is immature, weak, silly, and will only result in a backlash of more anger. Let's all stop trying to demonize the members of opposing parties for having an opinion other than yours. Because I know this: Even if you make it criminal for people like me to call politicians nothing more than parasites and fatbags, I'll keep saying it. I'm not afraid of a government employee so intellectually weak and dishonest as to want to silence critics and dissenters..

This is America. Freedom of speech is fundamental to our liberty. Limiting “offensive” speech by gun-backed legislation is not the answer. Growing a pair and being true to the Constitution of the United States of America is. If political agenda find the founding documents in the way, maybe that “agenda” should be scrapped.

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