“when using those terms, I was referring to individuals who walk into an office or school or community center and start shooting up the place…are you defending them?”

it would have ended…”my wife’s uncle is an a#hole”

In England, under current law, this is properly categorized as hate speech. You understand that it’s talk like this – language like this – that causes the attacks? Do you still wonder why they hate us?

Radical Goofballs aren’t animals. Their ideas are every bit as valid as yours and mine, simply because . . well, because. To call them “wackos” is insensitive and divisive.

Oh, and, about your wife’s crazy uncle’s gun?

Cheney gave it to him.

My wife’s crazy uncle lives in suburban Detroit and claims that he carries a glock in a shoulder holster when he goes to synagogue (I should have patted him down @ his son’s wedding) becuase he worries that, in his words, “some crazy Arab will come in during services and shoot up the place”…I can’t imagine living like that in this country.