Sorry Snuggles, but this guy is criminally insane! There's a difference! **** him! Put one behind his ear!
The other half of criminally insane is insane.
There are no cognizant, rational thoughts to drive his actions.
He is no more culpable than a mentally retarded person could be held liable for a mortgage or credit card payment.
He's diseased and putting him down has the same moral caliber as the remedy of the Goebbels/Stalin crowd.
To say, "but look what he did" doesn't count because he didn't do it. He has no thought/freewill in the matter. This is how his disease manifests itself.
I have actually sat across the table of a paranoid schizophrenic who regularly wandered into one of my restaurants muttering to herself. One day she sat at a table and was so agitated the waitress had to come get me. She accused me of being Bobby Kennedy hiding out through a CIA plot and she said she was determined to expose the truth. That's a scary ****ing moment when you realize you have a building full of people and someone so outfield that can't see the play yet they are determined to commit some act.
But as scared ass I was about her next action I can only imagine what hell it must of been to be locked inside her noggin where every waking moment is a matter of fear, doubt and anger. There is no joy, no choice between good or bad, no comfort; just unending torment. That is the very definition of hell, yet, more than likely no sin lead her there, she was overtaken by a bio-mechanical malfunction.
Now this Loughner ****--who should have been put away YEARS AGO--is not only living with those same demons he is being exploited by a bunch of politicizing shitbags. And yet, through it all, Loughner has no choice about anything even giving you the correct time of day unless the particular disease he has manifests in such a way as to allow him to do so.
