My Bets About Pittsburgh's Asswipe Loserman

It turns out that the Pittsburgh Loserman was, to put it bluntly, a far-right, neo-nazi who believed that President Obama was going to take away his guns and that Jews run the country.

A few observations:

First off, I wager that, apart from the Pittsburgh press (and the blogs), you will see close to zero coverage about Loserman's political beliefs. You won't see any of the talking heads on Faux News discussing it at length. Compare and contrast that, if you wish, against what would be going on if the shooter were an African-American or a Muslim (or both).

There seems to be some reticence in the media, especially from the conservative side of the aisle (which means almost everything except two shows on MSNBC, the SF Chron and the Village Voice) to take on the noe-nazis. There were no searching in-depth stories of the militia movement when the Oklahoma City Loserman blew up the Federal building there or when one of the Midwest Losermen drove around and shot people who appeared to be in an ethnic minority. There was no discussion of the Right-wing hate bloviators when a Loserman in Tennessee took a shotgun to the congregation of a Unitarian church in order to carry out the bidding of the far-Right pundits to "kill all liberrrulls." Why is that?

Second: To those of you out there who have been promoting similar conspiracy theories, those of you who have been spreading rumors that the Obama Administration is going to ban anything more powerful than a BB gun or that "ammo tracking" is going to make ammunition, I say this: You own a part of this. Not all of it, this Loserman was unhinged. Not even a majority of it. But part of it.

Third: The reportage has maintained that the Pittsburgh Loserman was dishonorably discharged from the Marine Corps. Receiving a dishonorable discharge means that you cannot legally purchase a gun. Look at question 11.g on AFT Form 4473; if you were to answer "yes", you get tossed out the door of a gun shop. So are they going to walk back the cat on his weapons and find out who sold them to him?