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It Doesn’t Matter Why He Did It (New Yorker)
Judging from his Internet postings, Jared Lee Loughner is a delusional young
man whose inner political landscape is a swamp of dystopian novels, left- and
right-wing tracts, conspiracy theories, and contempt for his fellow human
beings. He refers to the gold and silver standard; that doesn't make Ron Paul
responsible for the shootings. He is fond of "Animal Farm"; George Orwell
didn't guide the hand that pulled the automatic pistol's trigger. Marx and
Hitler produced a lot of corpses, but not the ones in Tucson.
But the plate-glass window of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords's office was
shattered last March after the final health-care vote. Judge John Roll, who
was among the dead, had received death threats and spent a month with a
protection detail. Roll was apparently a bystander to Loughner's intended
target--and maybe the gunman had no idea why he was aiming for Giffords
either, maybe he didn't know how she voted on health care or what her position
on Arizona's draconian immigration law was. It would be a kind of relief if
Loughner operated not out of any coherent political context but just his own
fevered brain.
But even so, the tragedy wouldn't change this ...
New Yorker
