Jared Loughner: 'Let the Bodies Hit the Floor'

Time for finger-pointing and playing the blame game.

What made Jared Lee Loughner go on a shooting rampage?

Who's responsible?

The New York Times and the father of shooting victim Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords point to the Tea Party.

The Times cites Sarah Palin's website as contributing to the violence.

During last spring’s health care votes, the language used against some lawmakers was ratcheted up again, with protesters outside the House hurling insults and slurs. The offices of some Democrats, including Ms. Giffords’s in Tucson, were vandalized.

Ms. Giffords was also among a group of Democratic House candidates featured on the Web site of Sarah Palin’s political action committee with cross hairs over their districts, a fact that disturbed Ms. Giffords at the time.

“We’re on Sarah Palin’s targeted list,” Ms. Giffords said last March. “But the thing is the way that she has it depicted has the cross hairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they’ve got to realize there’s consequences to that.”

The image is no longer on the Web site, and Ms. Palin posted a statement saying “my sincere condolences are offered to the family of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and the other victims of today’s tragic shooting in Arizona. On behalf of Todd and my family, we all pray for the victims and their families, and for peace and justice.” (Late Saturday, the map was still on Ms. Palin’s Facebook page.)

Democrats have also pointed out cases where Republican candidates seemed to raise the prospect of armed revolt if Washington did not change its ways.

This is awful, but I knew it would happen. I knew some Leftists would exploit this horrific crime to achieve their political ends.

Blame the Tea Party. Blame Sarah Palin. Blame the rhetoric of the Right and conservative talk radio. Blame Republicans.

That's so sleazy. It's disgusting.

Suggesting that the Tea Party and conservatives serve as advocates for such violence and bear some responsibility for Jared Loughner's deranged behavior is shameful.

All decent, caring, respectable people condemn Loughner's murder spree and pray for the victims and their families.

It should be a given that all Americans would join together in grief for the dead and wounded. Everyone should feel outrage over the shootings.

It's wrong to blame Sarah Palin and the Tea Party. It would be just as wrong if I were to blame Leftists. Reportedly, Loughner was a liberal.

“As I knew him he was left wing, quite liberal. & oddly obsessed with the 2012 prophecy,” the former classmate, Caitie Parker, wrote in a series of Twitter feeds Saturday. “I haven’t seen him since ’07 though. He became very reclusive.”

“He was a political radical & met Giffords once before in ’07, asked her a question & he told me she was ‘stupid & unintelligent,’ ” she wrote.

I wouldn't say that the years and years of Left-wing vitriol and the irresponsible statements of elected Democrats are responsible for Loughner's actions.

I don't blame the radical Leftists and their use of extreme rhetoric and violent, bloody imagery.

I don't hold Obama responsible for the shootings because he said inflammatory things like "We're gonna PUNISH OUR ENEMIES," or "I want you to argue with them and get in their face," or "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."

I don't blame the Democratic Party of Wisconsin for Loughner's violence because it distributed a bumper sticker showing what appears to be blood spurting from Republican Governor Scott Walker's head.

I don't blame terrorists like Bill Ayers or murderers like Karl and Dwight Armstrong.

I don't blame anarchists.

I don't blame atheists.

I don't blame American flag-burners.

I don't blame the music of Drowning Pool.

I blame Jared Lee Loughner for committing murder - for killing 6 people and wounding 13 others, including a 9-year-old girl, Christina Green, a third grader.

The Pima County Sheriff's Office says 9-year-old Christina Green died in the attack that wounded Giffords and 12 others.

Christina was born on 9/11 and featured in the book "9/11: Faces of Hope." She reportedly attended Mesa Verde Elementary School.

The father of a classmate says she studied ballet and played baseball and was just elected to her third grade student council.

"Outgoing, intelligent girl. She's on student council, usually kids on the student council have some good things going for them," said Jason Matsuzawa.

She had apparently gone to the event with her uncle to meet Giffords.

Loughner is an assassin. He's evil. I'm confident justice will be done.

I pray for the dead and the wounded and the survivors.
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Jared Loughner lists this video as a favorite on his YouTube page:

"America: Your Last Memory In A Terrorist Country!"



Lyrics:

"Bodies"
Drowning Pool

Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor

Beaten why for (why for)
Can't take much more

Here we go, here we go, here we go now

One - Nothing wrong with me
Two - Nothing wrong with me
Three - Nothing wrong with me
Four - Nothing wrong with me

One - Something's got to give
Two - Something's got to give
Three - Something's got to give
Now!

Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor

Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Now!

Push me again (again)
This is the end

Here we go, here we go, here we go now!

One - Nothing wrong with me
Two - Nothing wrong with me
Three - Nothing wrong with me
Four - Nothing wrong with me

One - Something's got to give
Two - Something's got to give
Three - Something's got to give
Now!

Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor

Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor

Skin against skin blood and bone
You're all by yourself but you're not alone
You wanted in, and now you're here
Driven by hate, consumed by fear

Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor

One - Nothing wrong with me
Two - Nothing wrong with me
Three - Nothing wrong with me
Four - Nothing wrong with me

One - Something's got to give
Two - Something's got to give
Three - Something's got to give
Now!

Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor

Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor

Hey, go! Hey, go! Hey, go! Hey, go!

Note: American flags aren't burned at Tea Party events.

Drowning Pool's "Bodies" isn't a Tea Party anthem.

Tea Party participants don't worship at backyard skull shrines.