Quote Originally Posted by alan View Post
Putting words in my mouth again?

As long as I'm responding, I'll ask again, do you have any evidence that political rhetoric had anything to do with Jared Lee Laughner's actions? If not, are we simply engaging in inflamatory rhetoric ourselves?
We don't have any proof, nor do we have proof not. But just as yelling fire in a crowded theatre may not result in people trampling each other in an effort to get out it's still not something that reasonable people do because the result may just be that.

How is suggesting that potentially inflammatory rhetoric might be a bad idea inflammatory in itself?