I know I'm a bit late on posting this (nearly four months late, actually). But this was something said by Barack Obama after the shootings, and since he's running for President it's worth being late:

"There's also another kind of violence that we're going to have to think about. It's not necessarily the physical violence, but the violence that we perpetrate on each other in other ways," he said, and goes on to catalogue other forms of "violence."

There's the "verbal violence" of Imus.

There's "the violence of men and women who have worked all their lives and suddenly have the rug pulled out from under them because their job is moved to another country."[1]

Wow. So this guy really thinks words are remotely in the same ballpark as murder?

I really have to worry about someone who is running for President who would think of comparing words in a bad joke to actual, real-life, death. This is something covered under the first amendment, after all. Or comparing being laid off to actual, real-life, death.

With this type of mentality, we really do not need him running this country.