The Policeman Did It

According to the BBC:

The suspected gunman from Saturday's deadly shooting in Arizona was stopped for running a red light hours before the attack, police say.

Jared Loughner, 22, was given a verbal warning by an Arizona police officer, the Associated Press reported.

Perhaps it was that verbal warning that trigered the dreadful events of 8 January in Tucson. Perhaps the officer wasn't sufficiently polite or sensitive to Mr Loughner's needs. Perhaps that's what triggered the attack. I hope the officer concerned is duly investigated for 'insufficient sensitivity' and vilified in the press. If something Sarah Palin says thousands of miles away can be held to have contributed to this tragedy, surely a callous remark (such as the inflammatory "May I see your license, Sir?") by a police officer on the morning of the killings is a much more likely factor?

Or perhaps we could stop looking for bogeymen and accept that only one person pulled the trigger that day, and only one person bears responsibility?

"If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." - Barack Obama, 14 June 2008.

What's a guy to think?

• She's a Democrat, although used to be registered as a Republican
• She supports citizenship for illegal immigrants
• She's in favour of alternative energy

BUT:

• She's a gun owner
• She's fiscally conservative
  
• She's married to an astronaut, for God's sake
• She loves trucks and motorcycles (and was co-chair of the motorcycle caucus on Capitol Hill)

What's a normal, red-blooded, gun-totin' biker male to think?

Sarah Palin with brains, that's what she is.

I wish her well.