Area lawmaker thinks Tucson shooter was 'forced' to kill, by 'negative rhetoric'

Senator Wright-Jones is the first, to my knowledge, to imply that seeing a map marked with cross hairs could "force" someone to commit mass slaughter, but she is far from the first to implicate "negative rhetoric" as being at least partially to blame.

That distinction might have to go to Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who by Saturday evening, held a press conference blaming "vitriol" for senseless violence. [More]

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