Let's Not Politicize This Particular Shooting

I've dipped my toes into the waters of the wingnut blogosphere to report back to you the wingnut take on the shootings in Tennessee.

First, the MSM is reporting that the guy is a right-winger who hates all liberals, gays, Democrats, etc. and thinks we should all die. He picked the Unitarian Church because it is the most liberal church out there.

The wingnuts are having none of it (no links, because fuck 'em).

1. This is a tragedy and no one should be "exploiting" it. No mention is made of any other shooting and an exploitation thereof, although I can recall just about every other shooting in America being an occasion to call for increased gun rights, deportation of all "foreign" students, ruminations on "Sudden Jihad Syndrome," etc. In this particular case though, for no particular reason, quiet non-comment should be the order of the day.

2. The shooter wasn't really a conservative. This is line of argumentation is advanced in both the "real conservatives take personal responsiblity for their problems and don't blame others, so this guy is not a conservative" and "conservatives would never kill Christians" forms. Rarer, but still there, is the idea that only a liberal could be so hate-filled, so this must be a liberal posing as a conservative just to give conservatives a bad name, not that this does, because the guy is so obviously not a conservative.

3. This is more properly described as an anti-Christian shooting, not an anti-liberal shooting. I mean, who looks for liberals in churches? No one. The man hated Christians [this appears to be true] and he targeted Christians. His anti-Christian attitudes call into question his so-called conservativism (see above).

4. Lastly, but not leastly, the violence on display here is the result of the liberals' "politics of hatred." You see, liberals are such unrelenting haters of Bush, McCain, Rush, unborn babies, homophobes, etc. that it's no wonder people have forgotten what civility is. Talk about your chickens coming home!

With that, I go home to nap.