It's normal to want to make sense of the senseless, but when the media manipulators drag in the same old hackneyed voices to spin the incident in favor of the status quo is not moving ahead, nor going backwards, it's simply shooting bullshit into the air for the sake of filling the airwaves.
They have from the beginning nitpicked what Jared Lee Loughner read, pointing out his interest in communist and Nazi materials in particular, as if this is what sent him over the edge. How absolutely moronic can you get? The only question I have is this: Did he have a subscription to Guns & Ammo?
It's interesting to see how Loughner labeled his reading material as having been favorites, in past tense, rather than ongoing. It's as if he were regulating this interest to a past life, something that no longer pertained to him.
From his YouTube page:
Books:
I had favorite books: Animal Farm, Brave New World, The Wizard Of OZ, Aesop Fables, The Odyssey, Alice Adventures Into Wonderland, Fahrenheit 451, Peter Pan, To Kill A Mockingbird, We The Living, Phantom Toll Booth, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Pulp,Through The Looking Glass, The Communist Manifesto, Siddhartha, The Old Man And The Sea, Gulliver's Travels, Mein Kampf, The Republic, and Meno.
This list is a compilation you might find in any college dorm. To paraphrase the mantra of the NRA, "Books don't kill people; people kill people."
They are pointing fingers everywhere, from Sarah Palin to David Icke, as having had an unseen hand in the unfolding of events in Tucson, grappling for something that will give them a peak into the mind of a madman. That he is unbalanced and weird is beside the point. When the media endeavors to single out his actions as having been caused by elements that are frowned upon by society's prevailing mores, then we are going into territory that will shed absolutely no light on the matter and only further muddle the entire situation in their favor.
They have made a big deal about the guy using pot and mushrooms, labeling him a "drug user." The organic malaise that was rooted in his psyche may have been placated by his use of these particular drugs, rather than causing further irritation. In any case, there's no question that he needed to be on some form of psychotropic drugs. And why wasn't he? His parents evidently didn't see any need for it. And what about his parents? What do they read? What do they think?
People at his community college saw the need for something to be done. So what did they do? They kicked him out of school. Problem solved. Out of sight out of mind.
If Loughner had had a criminal record and if he had wanted to get a gun, he would have been able to do it. We all know that. So where did the problem lie? In the books he read, his political views, his obnoxious behavior? Whatever it was, it was between his own ears. Hitler's views or Marx's thoughts on social order had nothing to do with it. This guy would have done the same thing had he been reading comic books, or playing video games, in which case these pass times would have been spotlighted as possible triggers for his actions.
When people pass the buck, like the media is endeavoring to do with this incident, it offers no value in trying to understand what really happened. All it says is that their boat was rocked and outside forces malignant to the prevailing social order have had a hand in causing it. This could not be further from the truth and serves only the powers that be in maintaining their hold on what they want us to believe, without touching the underlying cause whatsoever.