Missing the mark (Or not)

[pyat]

There was a shooting at a Unitarian Universalist church in Knoxville on the weekend. Two people died. The suspected attacker was, apparently, frustrated by Christianity. He was normal fairly peaceful, but sometimes had religious disagreements with his neighbors, one of whom is a King James literalist. If his attack was inspired by his frustration with Fundamentalist Christianity, then he picked a really bad target. Not that any target would have been a good one.

Edit: Though, apparently he was mostly mad at those darn liberals...

Comments

[paka.livejournal.com]

I don't think that his thoughts and actions were on the same continuum as the average American "conservative".

Maybe not average, but the extreme edge does seem... pretty murderous. I'm from Georgia, I used to work for a defense contractor, so I've seen how right-wingers work. I kinda feel like when you plug normal ranting, hate-filled conservative rhetoric into sane people, you get sane people who just aren't pleasant, fair-minded, or truly community-oriented. You plug the same rhetoric into people who aren't entirely sane, and you get stuff like this or the anti-abortion whackos who murder doctors.