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I had to draw this.

Being a former Tucsonian, and living just little over a mile up the road from where this happened hit too close to home for me. Tucson is a big armed camp, and this shit just doesn't happen in Tucson.

Til now.

They got complacent, those around the scene didn't carry, didn't have to. There was really no real threat.

Til Now.

Instead it took a lunatic who believed firmly with Sovereign Citizen (Google it) and was rejected by the military even for being nuts. Disrupted his college, posted on the net he wanted to kill a cop someday and was described as an overall disturbed individual.

But no....society failed that day. Nobody followed up on the red flags being tossed about the guy. And instead Congresswoman Gifford was the target of his warped views. 20 people shot, 6 killed. He fell through the cracks of the Health care system.

His trail of rantings and lunacy was an easy trail to follow. Hell, Even the nazis who run the website Stormfront said "This guy is a complete lunatic a threat to the nation so off the wall he makes US look good! " Myspace scrubbed his rants, but others managed to still locate his posts, Youtube was a popular feature on all the news channels. The Young man even favored the Communist manifesto and Mein Kampf.

Then came the finger pointing. Various folks and left leaning groups openly accusing anybody connected with the Tea Party as the cause. That it was clearly a Republican extremist sent by the likes of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. That Sarah Palin herself ordered the hit on Representative Gifford. It was a political hit obviously. That it was a Pro-gun White Supremacist who hated Democrats.

Then came the news conferences in Tucson.

NY Times, Huffington Post, Washington Post and others started asking questions not on how the victims were doing, the police checks on the shooter. But the Glock used.

Was it bought at a gunshow, who was the strawman purchaser, was it legally purchased and where? How many times did the gun fire? How many rounds did he carry, shoot.

Of 7 questions asked...5 were fixed on that Glock and how loose Arizona's gun laws were, and how easy it is to buy a gun in Arizona, just like buying chips in a Seven Eleven as some said.

Then came the finger pointing, accusations that anybody who owns a gun is therefor connected with this horrendous crime. That they were just as guilty as squeezing the trigger themselves. That we must fully ban ALL Guns. NOW! That broad paintbrush of blame in use again. Oddly,(Gee, no surprise here) The Left was rapid with the blame throwing and accusations with knee-jerk reactions.

I had people accuse me of supporting the shooter cause I was a gun owner, worse yet, owned Glocks. That I was a member of Posse Comatatus and Sovereign Citizen clearly cause I was a gun owner and a filthy Republican (I've been a Registered Democrat since 1980!!) Therefor need to be disarmed and locked away.

No, Dammit...What happened was a real tragedy, a horror that we as a nation have failed ourselves. That the red flags ignored, the not allowing the information of a potential threat be passed to the proper authorities cause of privacy. Folks that Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said "Back in the 60s when I was a rookie cop, people like Jered were locked away and not let out, Today we just pat them on the back and hope for the best."

Jered Loughner is a troubled young man who was angry at the government, who's mentality was clouded by extremists like Sovereign Citizen, who as a group are neither Republican or Democrat.

I pray for the victims of the shooting and pray for a speedy recovery of the wounded.

I'm sick of being lumped in along with other legitimate and safety conscious gun owners with one screwball who does something stupid.

Description
I had to draw this.

Being a former Tucsonian, and living just little over a mile up the road from where this happened hit too close to home for me. Tucson is a big armed camp, and this shit just doesn't happen in Tucson.

Til now.

They got complacent, those around the scene didn't carry, didn't have to. There was really no real threat.

Til Now.

Instead it took a lunatic who believed firmly with Sovereign Citizen (Google it) and was rejected by the military even for being nuts. Disrupted his college, posted on the net he wanted to kill a cop someday and was described as an overall disturbed individual.

But no....society failed that day. Nobody followed up on the red flags being tossed about the guy. And instead Congresswoman Gifford was the target of his warped views. 20 people shot, 6 killed. He fell through the cracks of the Health care system.

His trail of rantings and lunacy was an easy trail to follow. Hell, Even the nazis who run the website Stormfront said "This guy is a complete lunatic a threat to the nation so off the wall he makes US look good! " Myspace scrubbed his rants, but others managed to still locate his posts, Youtube was a popular feature on all the news channels. The Young man even favored the Communist manifesto and Mein Kampf.

Then came the finger pointing. Various folks and left leaning groups openly accusing anybody connected with the Tea Party as the cause. That it was clearly a Republican extremist sent by the likes of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. That Sarah Palin herself ordered the hit on Representative Gifford. It was a political hit obviously. That it was a Pro-gun White Supremacist who hated Democrats.

Then came the news conferences in Tucson.

NY Times, Huffington Post, Washington Post and others started asking questions not on how the victims were doing, the police checks on the shooter. But the Glock used.

Was it bought at a gunshow, who was the strawman purchaser, was it legally purchased and where? How many times did the gun fire? How many rounds did he carry, shoot.

Of 7 questions asked...5 were fixed on that Glock and how loose Arizona's gun laws were, and how easy it is to buy a gun in Arizona, just like buying chips in a Seven Eleven as some said.

Then came the finger pointing, accusations that anybody who owns a gun is therefor connected with this horrendous crime. That they were just as guilty as squeezing the trigger themselves. That we must fully ban ALL Guns. NOW! That broad paintbrush of blame in use again. Oddly,(Gee, no surprise here) The Left was rapid with the blame throwing and accusations with knee-jerk reactions.

I had people accuse me of supporting the shooter cause I was a gun owner, worse yet, owned Glocks. That I was a member of Posse Comatatus and Sovereign Citizen clearly cause I was a gun owner and a filthy Republican (I've been a Registered Democrat since 1980!!) Therefor need to be disarmed and locked away.

No, Dammit...What happened was a real tragedy, a horror that we as a nation have failed ourselves. That the red flags ignored, the not allowing the information of a potential threat be passed to the proper authorities cause of privacy. Folks that Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said "Back in the 60s when I was a rookie cop, people like Jered were locked away and not let out, Today we just pat them on the back and hope for the best."

Jered Loughner is a troubled young man who was angry at the government, who's mentality was clouded by extremists like Sovereign Citizen, who as a group are neither Republican or Democrat.

I pray for the victims of the shooting and pray for a speedy recovery of the wounded.

I'm sick of being lumped in along with other legitimate and safety conscious gun owners with one screwball who does something stupid.