Mother Jones has a profile of alleged gunman Jared Lee Loughner that paints Loughner as a man driven less by any particular political ideology than by paranoia, feelings of superiority, an obsession with lucid dreaming, and a desire to force other people to "wake up". A former friend says that Loughner decided Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was a "fake" when she didn't adequately answer his question—"What is government if words have no meaning?"—at a 2007 open forum. The part about words having no meaning apparently came from Loughner's lucid-dream related theories about the unreality of the physical world. He believed that if the real world wasn't real, then nothing said there was real either.
Former friend on Jared Lee Loughner's beliefs and motivations
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