Arizona Rep. Giffords' shooter called very disturbed.

[slapout9]

The writing and You Tube posts are more typical of someone with schizophrenia than with any specific political leanings. Whatever "radicalized" him was a product of his own mental condition, and had no connection to the external world beyond seizing on certain terms that he took out of context and fit into his delusions. There isn't anything useful to be learned from trying to fit this mentally disturbed spree killer into the category of terrorist.

Jay, that it is part of what is used to determine the threat level of a possible assassin.

[bourbon]

I don’t believe he was the intended target, but the chief federal judge in Arizona killed in the attack. Federal judge’s can receive a lot of death threats, but only 6 (including this one) have been murdered in US history; last one was in 1989.


Trivia Question:
The father of which movie and sitcom star, was an organized crime affiliated hit-man who shot and killed US District Judge John Wood (aka: "Maximum John") in 1979?