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Sarah Palin Deleting Old Tweets and Gunsight Maps

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines1/08/2011 3:15:12 pm PST

Obviously someone who acts out violently is not wholly representative of any of the mass political movements in this country. If it were otherwise, we would have an actual revolution on our hands. I don’t think Sarah Palin’s map, for example, played any role in inciting this creep, though it’s always possible.

What this does do is remind various demagogues, and the rest of us, that violence, gunplay, and assassination happen in real life. It is a warning to them to put the brakes on their violent imagery and rhetoric right now, before it does become a mass movement.