Another conservative murderer, this time just shooting "Liberals."

The shooting at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Tennessee has been all over the news, but look at why Jim D. Adkisson did it. From MSNBC:

Adkisson is being held in lieu of $1 million bail while local police, with the assistance of FBI agents, gather evidence and search his home in a neighboring town. Police say they found a letter in Adkisson’s car which said that he planned the attack, that he couldn’t find a job, and “stated his hatred for the liberal movement.” The church has been active in seeking equal rights for women, minorities and gays, and founded a local chapter of the ACLU.

We all know that being Gay makes a person a target for murderous homophobic conservatives, and those they consider abortionists, but now they are going after members of "Liberal" Churches. The link is conservatism and murderous methods.

More details on the shooting and on Adkisson can be found here. Apparently he was an angry man who couldn't find a job, for which he blamed "Liberals." As a speculation, he would never recognized that it was probably his anger and his own personality that prevented him from finding work.

No doubt the National Rifle Association will be proud of Adkisson for using his Second Amendment gun rights to defend himself against "Liberalism." And any idiot who claims that the congregants should have been carrying guns in church while watching their children put on a play is a fool who is blaming the victims. Adkisson committed this crime and should be blamed for it. According to the second report above,he did not expect to survive the attack, so it is clear that no threat of punishment would have deterred him from his murderous conservative actions. Adkisson killed two and wounded seven others. I wonder if he just couldn't find a mosque close enough to home to go after. Isn't conservative religion and conservatism in general wonderful?

By the way, this is modern American conservatism, not directly related to traditional Burkean conservatism.

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Addendum July 30, 2008 7:10 am CDT
According to WBIR.com,

KPD Chief Sterling Owen said officials are not ready to release the suspect's name or age, but he did say that mental illness is not believed to be a factor in the suspect's actions.

The Knoxville Police Chief is not likely to have been made without consultation with experts. That makes the murders purely political.