The right-wing is very militant and ready to shoot on sight

There is a great debate going on in the media over whether or or not the shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was brought on by harsh language from the right-wing political machine in the U.S.  Many Republicans are defending their speech by labeling the shooter as bat-shit-crazy (which he probably was) and telling us that none of their speech or publications inspired him.  Well - then how about the gun-crazy mentality of the state of Arizona where it is perfectly legal for any citizen to carry a concealed weapon without a permit?

Arizona's extremism in the spotlight

from Daily Kos by Joan McCarter

In his Saturday news briefing, just hours after the shooting, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said:

The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous.... And unfortunately, Arizona I think has become sort of the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry.

While a couple of Arizona Republicans, Rep. Trent Franks and Sen. Jon Kyl, took issue with Dupnik's remarks, a few Arizona Democrats have first hand knowledge to back up the Sheriff. For instance, Rep. Raul Grijalva:

MINUTEMAN WISHES GRIJALVA DEAD ON FACEBOOK - A well-known activist with Arizona's Minutemen, an armed, anti-immigration vigilante organization, celebrated the attack on Giffords in a Facebook posting, lamenting that Rep. Raul Grijalva, a Democrat who also represents the Tucson area, wasn't also killed, according to the local Tucson Citizen. "AZ Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (Dem) assassinated in Safeway store parking lot in Tucson by another Democrat! Too bad Traitor Raul Grijalva wasn't with her! He won't be missed!" wrote Laine Lawless, a Minuteman activist and the founder of the extremist group Border Guardians.

In just the past eight months, Grijalva has experienced three terrorist threats against him or his office, "And we’re not logging or complaining about some of the other vile statements that are made."

In July, someone shot out the window of Grijalva’s Yuma office. Grijalva had bulletproof glass installed. In October, a bag of white powder was mailed to Grijalva’s Tucson office in a package decorated with swastikas. Again, police ordered his staff home. The FBI later said the powder wasn’t toxic.

Or how about Mary Rose Wilcox, a member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in Arizona.

Wilcox herself was shot in 1997, while walking out of a board meeting, by a man who later said he was angry at her support for a baseball stadium tax. The first Hispanic woman elected to the board, Wilcox, a Democrat, had been the target of talk-radio tirades telling Maricopa County residents to "take her out."
"I knew at the time that the hate had been caused by a lot of the rhetoric that had gone on," Wilcox told HuffPost. "At the trial, the man actually said, 'I shot her because the radio said I should take her out.'"

The "radio said I should take her out." But no, hate talk isn't a problem. Meanwhile, Glock sales in Arizona have surged since Saturday.