By Selwyn Duke
To be frank, any exposition upon Arizona murderer Jared Lee Loughner’s life must start with a certain acknowledgment: He is not a sane man. I don’t mean this figuratively in the way public officials might use metaphor, such as when Barack Obama spoke of bringing a gun to a fight with Republicans (language against which his party now rails). No, if Loughner is not authentically insane, it’s hard to imagine who is.
Loughner’s derangement hit America like a jackhammer on that fateful Saturday, January 8, when he shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others, leaving six dead and 14 wounded. But it had long been apparent to those who knew him — and few knew him very long.
And in recent times, knowing him long wasn’t necessary to understand that his mind had gone terribly awry, as now well-known Internet postings attest. For instance, Loughner posted a YouTube video entitled “Introduction” in which he presents a series of bizarre syllogisms such as:
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