Of Course It Was Political: The phony debate about assassins like Jared Loughner
Opinion • January 2011 • Views: 695
Throughout history, political assassins—even the most clearly unhinged among them—have possessed political motives. That doesn’t mean that Tea Party-style rhetoric incited Loughner. But his choice of targets—an officeholder, not a post office or a mall—can’t be dismissed as arbitrary. The problem lies in the artificial distinction we routinely draw between political and psychological motives.