Thus let it be done...
I don't like to speculate, but I've got a bad feeling about this:
A gunman barged into the Arkansas Democratic Party headquarters Wednesday and shot the state party chairman three times, critically wounding him, authorities and party officials said.
Coming on the heels of the murders in Knoxville, I can't help but wonder if this is yet another example of someone going postal.
The suspect, who was either killed or committed suicide following a police pursuit, might also have threatened the building manager of the Arkansas State Baptist (Church) headquarters. That person made reference to losing his job.
Hmmm...there's the culture of violence we're reminded of daily in the newspapers: bombings in Pakistan and Kashmir, war and terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq, war in Georgia, terrorism and insurgency in Colombia, massacres, or, if you "prefer," genocide in Darfur. Then there's the sheer savagery of rhetoric from the likes of creeps like John Bolton...or Dick.Cheney, or Shrub himself, etc...then there's the stress and pain of economic displacement...
I'd guess all of those things could factor into or play a role in setting off any number of ticking time bombs of the kind that no one seems to give a damn about, because Jack Bauer can't "heroically" abuse or torture them...
And that doesn't even factor in the very, very real potential that returning veterans, suffering from the kind of PTSD that most of us can't grasp at all, might well snap. Others suffering similar symptoms have.
Like I said, I've got a bad feeling about this...and the possibility of similar outbursts or worse down the road...
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