Meanwhile, you can get your own “You Lie!” assault rifle.

The same wingnuts who are insisting today that there’s absolutely no connection at all between speech and actions have spent an awful lot of time over the past several decades saying exactly the opposite.

So, it seems there were at least two friendlies at the site with loaded weapons, one drawn, one about to be drawn, but neither of them could react fast enough to stop a crazed shooter from getting off some 30 rounds, killing six and wounding more than a dozen others. And they almost shot each other.

Arizona is one of the worst states in the nation at delivering mental health services, and cut back significantly on its mental health programs during the Great Recession in order to balance their budget.

Meanwhile, God bless Sheriff Dupnik.

Jared Loughner is due to appear at a hearing today before a magistrate in Phoenix at 4pm ET.

In today’s Wall Street Journal, Putz says that people like Gabrielle Gifford’s husband Mark Kelly, in denouncing the “angry rhetoric” on the right — are dishonest and indecent.

Sarah Palin’s handling of the whole Tucson shooting situation has been so utterly self-involved and reckless from start to finish that it should disqualify her from ever occupying a position of political leadership in this country again.

You can credibly characterize Loughner as an unstable individual, but the zeitgeist seems to have played a role.

This clip is rather revealing. Note that Sheriff Dupnik never says “right-wing vitriol” or “conservative hate speech” — or even mentioned Faux News or El Rushbo. No, he simply called for more civility.