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Ever since we heard the tragic news from Tucson, there’s been lots of speculation about why a young man like Jared Loughner would go on a shooting rampage, severely injuring Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and killing six of her constituents.

There are those who deny this has anything to do with politics. Nonsense. It has politics written all over it.

Where did Loughner go to commit mass murder? To a political event. Whom did he target? An elected politician. And what congresswoman from Arizona was targeted by Sarah Palin on a map with crosshairs over her district and the admonition to “reload”? Gabrielle Giffords. Any attempted assassination of a member of Congress is, by definition, a political event.

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