Someone needs to help this poor couple find a place to be away from the hounds. I know we all want to know what part they played in what their son did but we all know how badly the media can behave. I read that his mother is “very close to a nervous breakdown”. Some of you will say they deserve it but none of you know it any more than saying Sarah Palin, Beck, Obama or Obermann for their rhetoric. When their son did this he ended the lives of 6 people and damaged the lives of many but he also ruined his own live. That was his choice so we don’t feel a bit sorry for him. But he also ruined their lives with out a care in the world.

Ajolily said:
Someone needs to help this poor couple find a place to be away from the hounds. I know we all want to know what part they played in what their son did but we all know how badly the media can behave. I read that his mother is “very close to a nervous breakdown”. Some of you will say they deserve it but none of you know it any more than saying Sarah Palin, Beck, Obama or Obermann for their rhetoric. When their son did this he ended the lives of 6 people and damaged the lives of many but he also ruined his own live. That was his choice so we don’t feel a bit sorry for him. But he also ruined their lives with out a care in the world.

Very well said. Ty

I feel so sorry for them. No one should have to go through this. I just hope they have a good support system.

I don’t know how much coverage the parents have been receiving, but because I had been skimming last night’s Diane Sawyer for appearances of the talkative Sheriff, I knew that he had said something, so I went back to the Hulu archive and clipped the 17 sec portion. (There may be other reports on other networks and perhaps the parents had been mentioned by others during the ABC newscast, but this is where I knew something had been said)

Its just a statement you would expect . Notice what is most important is their privatcy . I don’t buy it . Not a very good statement to me . Sounds like they just want left alone . More concerned about their life then others . I could be wrong . But ?

Whatever his motive, Jared Loughner was, by all accounts, an antisocial character whom most found odd and off-putting. Wearing a hoodie even in the scorching Tucson summer, and sealing the world out with his iPod earbuds, Jared would walk the family dog around the neighborhood, oblivious to those who tried to greet him. “I’ve said ‘hi’ multiple times, but he’s ignored me and continued with whatever he’s doing,” says Anthony Woods, a 19-year-old airplane mechanic who’s lived next door to the Loughners for seven years. “He seems very depressed, he was hunched over at all times.” (By contrast, neighbors say Jared’s mother is very friendly and outgoing, although his father, Woods says, is “very aggressive, very angry all the time about petty things—like if the trash is out because the trash guys didn’t pick it up, he yells at us for it.” The Loughners couldn’t be reached for comment). In recent weeks, Jared seemed to grow even more antisocial. “I’d try to engage him in a conversation and he’d run or walk away” says Jason Johnson, 33, who lives across the street and met Jared for the first time a few weeks ago. “I saw him two days ago and I said hello. He turned and walked back into the house. He had a look in his eyes like something wasn’t right,” Johnson says. “You know how it is when you talk to someone who’s mentally ill and they’re just not there? It was like he was in his own world.”

http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/10/jared-lee-loughner-s-mental-state.html

Although without further information, I still at this point feel bad for the parents. Is a very hard thing living with a mentally unstable person. Especially a schizophrenic. I know first hand, as I had a family member who was one. She is now deceased. But it was very difficult for my parents and myself for many years.

Without evidence that they intentionally ignored signs they should have seen, I wil not criticize them. I’m sure they are devastated by this. Whenever something like this happens I often think that it would be harder on me if my son were the perp than the victim. Of course, losing a child would be the absolute worse thing to endure, but knowing that my child intentionally took the life of another would be harder for me to deal with I think. Just speculation of course. My son is an angel and will remain that way.

I understand that when FoxNews showed up to the house the parents asked if they could get an autographed picture of Sean Hannity and FoxNews contributor Sarah Palin. Apparently the family are big fans.

Nacho said:
I understand that when FoxNews showed up to the house the parents asked if they could get an autographed picture of Sean Hannity and FoxNews contributor Sarah Palin. Apparently the family are big fans.

Who isn’t

Ajolily said:
Some of you will say they deserve i

I gave you a “thumbs up” in spite of that part of your comment only after reading what the ever nasty Nacho said.

At first I thought you should have used “Some may”. However, it seems you knew the audience.

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The article said:
ABC News says a “portrait of isolation” emerges in conversations about the Loughners with their neighbors, who “painted a picture of a single-child home that was intensely private and increasingly insular and standoffish as Jared Loughner grew older.”

Way to go ABC, toss out vague disparaging hints about the family. Maybe you can connect the family and Sarah Palin and the tea party, and make ALL OF THEM responsible. Can you find a Bush angle, while you are at it?

Of course, the obvious concept of assigning guilt to the murderer would never occur to the mainstream media.

Reports are emerging that NUMEROUS complaints about their son were registered with the Pima Co. sheriff. One such complaint was made when one of his teachers called 911 about his behavior. Another was when he was peeping in the windows of a couple who had just bought the house of a the lady who had raised questions about him at the CC they both attended. Yet each one was met with resistance. They were told that he was being “handled”, that mental health officials were involved and that filing a report and requesting he be charged would be a bad idea and just bring unwanted attention to the issue…..which was after all being taken care of.

How much of this was due to his mother being employed by Pima County? Why did the sheriff lie when he stated that complaints had been received but then backpedal later?

How many run-ins with the law do you have to have before your behavior is assessed? How many times does your child have to be involved in something liek this before you question his sanity?

BTW….had they NEVER been in the back yard? If your child had a make shift shrine with a replica human skull atop it…..would you go on about your business and ignore this AT MINIMUM weird event?

I knew all of this before the statement by his parents.

That being said I have a difficult time giving them a pass.

I have read some very reprehensible remarks made by people on Mediaite, attack the family of this deranged killer. Until we know the factual story behind this tragedy, remarks about his families involvement, or lack of, is pure speculation. Attacking the family without knowing the facts is the work of people who have emotional problems.
We all know that criminals have been brought up in some of the nicest homes possible, and still they choose the path of crime. Why? It may very well be that they were wired that way and nothing anybody could have done was going to change that. Blaming a family for the crimes of one is, in it’s self, reprehensible!

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