We don't know the facts yet.

This is the first post in quite a while. A lot of people have been reacting to tragic shooting of Congresswoman Giffords by pointing out the language of violence coming from the right for the past year or more. While I agree that it's reckless and the Limbaugh's and Palin's of the world don't seem to have any idea the kind of atmosphere they are creating, it's not clear how much Loughner was influenced by that atmosphere. From some of what we know he there are both right and left wing ideas in his life, and a former classmate knew him as "pretty left wing". We don't know the facts and my feeling is that some of the reactions are just a touch jumping to conclusions.