Quote Originally Posted by Kevin23 View Post
I notice many people in this thread still think that Jared Lee Loughner's crime was a politically motivated in some way, especially by the sometimes flaming rhetoric of present day American politics. However, not to be harsh or offensive to anyone but this notion has been soundly put to rest as the reason behind the shooting that take place about week ago, because Loughner according to both his friends and other reports didn't pay attention to the news or political talk of any persuasion as he only payed attention to oddball conspiracy websites. Not anything with obvious political motivations like mentioned in the media or throughout this particular thread.
It was politically motivated from the standpoint that his target was a national politician and because of that it is a "fact" that politics played some part in his motivation but it was not the primary or most important part of his motivation. It was not politically motivated from the standpoint of trying to overthrow the government or advance the cause of some particular political ideology.