Loons W/ Guns Wrap-Up

From The Daily Beast.

Any reflexive media attempts to tie the shooter to the Tea Party movement should be regarded as totally unfounded. He appears to have been more focused on his hatred of former Vice President Dick Cheney than President Barack Obama. Bedell seems to be less connected to right-wing politics than what I call “fright wing” politics—the murky ground beyond left and right where conspiracy theories reside.

Responsibility for the damage & death dealt by crazed gun owners can be laid directly at the feet of the NRA, gun lobby, etc., whose insistence that anyone who has the money should be able to have a gun allows people like us, for example, to keep, bear, clean & lovingly polish over & over again, w/ ... Uh, except for the guy w/ the plane. Pilots have to have an annual medical check-up. Why not gun owners?