Rhetoric

I was just thinking how silly it is for conservatives to argue that violent rhetoric plays no role in prompting the marginal to act violently. As the Alaska Dispatch put it so well last week, motivating people to act is the entire point of rhetoric.

How can anyone, in good conscience, suggest that things are so bad in this country that we may need an armed insurection, and then argue that acts of violence against political opponents must be viewed as isolated acts of mad men?

Joe H.