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Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Democrats on Palin ‘Crosshair’ Map Received Death Threats

Author:     ERIC W. DOLAN
Source:     The Raw Story
Publication Date:     Monday, January 10th, 2011 -- 2:10 pm
 Link: Democrats on Palin ‘Crosshair’ Map Received Death Threats
Stephan:   Other countries, Yemen, Switzerland, Canada, have a high incidence of gun ownership. Yet not one has anything approaching the death rate from guns that the U.S. has routinely, year after year. Making matters worse our public political conversation sounds like adolescent boys in a locker room. We need to decouple guns and manliness. My friend, Ian Masters, an Australian told me on the phone tonight that 'in my country men step outside and settle the matter with fists, if it gets to that. You would be a pariah if you pulled out a gun, much less used it. It would be unmanly, not a PC comment I know, but the Australian truth.'

Two former Democratic representatives from Arizona reportedly received numerous threats during their time in office after being placed on Sarah Palin’s ‘crosshairs’ map.

‘I cannot tell you how much I wish a panty bomber would come in and just fucking blow your place up,’ one constituent told former Arizona Congressman Harry Mitchell, a Democrat who lost his reelection bid last year.

Another former Arizona representative, Ann Kirkpatrick, received emails calling her a ‘whore’ and had a sewer cap thrown through her office window, The Daily Best reported.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), who was shot in the head Saturday in Tucson, was among 20 other members of Congress who were on a ‘target list’ published by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Six people were killed and at least 14 others were injured in the attack.

A map of the US, published on Palin’s Facebook page, featured targeting crosshairs over individual congressional districts Palin had urged supporters to focus on. While her note called for ‘pink slips,’ she added that supporters should fire a ‘salvo’ at those lawmakers.

‘We’re paying particular attention to those House members who voted in favor of Obamacare and represent districts that Senator John McCain and I carried during the 2008 election,’ Palin’s […]

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