re: #280 Dark_Falcon

Not all of it. But I do think that the Republican party does not bear responsibility for these murders, and I think attempts to blame a ‘climate of hate’ are also an attempt to immobilize the GOP with accusations.

1. There is no way ever to know what caused this. It’s impossible to re-run the experiment.

2. Much of the GOP really really has become a ‘climate of hate’, lately. This sort of thing has the potential to cause much more bloodshed than we have seen so far. There are countless examples of this around the world, and throughout history. It is naive in the extreme to think that somehow America is an exception to this rule.

When things like this happen, you can’t determine exactly what caused the person to go off, because it’s a combination of things. Ponder the middle east. Then tell me violent ideology and rhetoric is not something to be concerned about.