Any murder is tragic, be it is the stranger you read about who was raped and murdered, a shopkeeper killed in an armed robbery, or a public figure who preached that murders are just an unfortunate but inevitable consequence of the constitutional right to keep and bare arms.
Still, I suspect that when making those remarks he never imagined that he would be one of those paying that price. If he had known, would he have felt the same way?
If you put yourself out there in the public eye then there has to be at least some awareness that the Mark David Chapmans of the world are out there. I don't think this one of those, simply a deranged individual fixated on a celebrity. Was it a political statement? Was it karma? I don't pretend to know, nor do I know the potential motive of the primary suspect.
What I suspect though, is that we may very well be headed into an era when the current political rhetoric will trigger more actions of this sort targeting both ends of the political spectrum.
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