Why did Jared Lee Loughner target Gabrielle Giffords for assassination? Nick Bauman talked today to a friend of Loughner’s, Bryce Tierney, who says that Loughner held a bizarre grudge against her:
He [] describes Loughner as being obsessed with “lucid dreaming”—that is, the idea that conscious dreams are an alternative reality that a person can inhabit and control—and says Loughner became “more interested in this world than our reality.”
….Tierney, who’s also 22, recalls Loughner complaining about a Giffords event he attended during that period….”He told me that she opened up the floor for questions and he asked a question. The question was, ‘What is government if words have no meaning?'” Giffords’ answer, whatever it was, didn’t satisfy Loughner. “He said, ‘Can you believe it, they wouldn’t answer my question,’ and I told him, ‘Dude, no one’s going to answer that,'” Tierney recalls. “Ever since that, he thought she was fake, he had something against her.”
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