re: #35 Charles

And I strongly disagree. The reason why we’re seeing so many of these incidents lately is directly attributable to the increasing craziness of the rhetoric coming out of the far right.

Sure, Bedell was probably nuts. But that’s exactly the point. The hate speech and deranged conspiracy theories that are all over the right wing and Ron Paul libertarian sites are dangerous, precisely because they tweak the crazies like Bedell and inspire them to violent crimes.

Agreed. The far right rhetoric fueled Bedell’s craziness. They yelled ‘fire!’ and started his rampage of crazy.