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So a while ago at my place of work, I had to listen to a co-worker from the right talk incessantly on the phone (speaker phone) about his Rush loving ways. He'd go on and on about how the left is horrible, that liberals would be the death of this country, etc. We've seen it and heard it all before. He would talk about women in a very denigrating manner and was finally reported to HR for his talk about women. One phone call I recall was him talking to a lawyer friend and he was asking advice about caring firearms in DC (which isn't allowed) and he was very angry that he couldn't even leave his weapons in the trunk of his car while it was parked at the airport.
Unfortunately, I was involved in all the back and forth and had to relate things that I'd heard him say (both sexually and politically). He was given a warning and this didn't sit well with him. He was on the phone instantly to his friends, making threats and I remember him laughing and telling his buddy, "I just want to warn you, if you hear about a guy bringing in his glocks and shooting up the place, it was me." He thought this was funny, I was scared shitless, as were my other office mates. We immediately reported this conversation to HR and he was immediately fired and escorted from the building by security.
I guess the moral to this story is that I can see a direct correlation between hate radio/FAUX news and gun violence. When the Right and their mouth pieces try and say that liberals are making this shit up or trying to politicize Saturday's tragedy, I say someone has to open their friggin' mouths and say something or more of what happened on Saturday will happen in this nation. I think Rachel Maddow hit the nail on the head last night when she said, and I'll paraphrase, that we shouldn't be shocked by gun massacres, because they're so frequent. The question we should be asking is what cause them and how do we stop them?
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