Refudiate your language, Sarah

Reload, Sarah, right?

No, Sarah, it's time to cease and desist.

What do you think of your word choices, now? Does your verbal history give you pause? You had your crosshairs right over Congresswoman Giffords’ district. And now the unspeakable has happened. What you so blithely pictured has come to pass.

How do you feel as she lies in critical condition in the hospital? How do you feel as U.S. District Judge John Roll lies dead?

Do you feel in any way responsible for the vitriol? Or do you continue to believe your hate-filled, ill-educated rhetoric is cute and folksy?

Is violent rhetoric a down-homey way to draw followers, or could it, in part, convince any individual that violence is an answer to our country’s divisive politics?

Does your snappy gun-speak add something to public discourse beyond its potential to incite violence?

Your self-appointed gun guru "lock and load" talk bears more resemblance to terror-speak than it does to political discourse held in a democratic republic.

Does talk have consequences? Does the written word? Did it have consequences, today? Could today’s violence in Arizona be a consequence of vitriol turned violent?

It’s time to end the acceptance of leaders using virulent rhetoric laced with violent overtones such as “reload,” "target," and “Second Amendment solutions,” as well as hate speech and virulent rhetoric.

Lay down your weapons of violence Sarah, Sharon, Bill, Glen, Jan and Rush. Your words carry deadly consequences.

It’s time to join the civil conversation.

Peace and blessings. (Practice the first; count the second.)