A Tale of Two Shootings
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Just out of curiosity, does anybody believe that the Arkansas shooting of two Army recruiters, one fatally, will get the same kind of political scrutiny as the shooting of a late-term abortion doctor in Kansas?
Will the former be adduced as left-wing extremism against the military, as the latter is already being exploited as right-wing extremism against abortion rights?
We don’t yet know why the recruiters were shot; perhaps it’s entirely personal. On the other hand, we really don’t yet know why Dr. George Tiller was murdered, either; that too could be personal, or it could be that his killer (perhaps in custody) was simply deranged and had no rational motive at all.
But my question is not about the reality of motive but the political reality of spin… and I just don’t see the same intensity of speculation among the elites in the Army-recruiter story as the abortion-doctor one.
But maybe it’s just I.
