How did this horrifying incident become a pulpit for the president to lecture all of us to tone down our rhetoric?  First of all, had all of the victims even made it into the ER before this sheriff cretin was blaming the shooting on me and you and everyone else in the tea party?  How long did it take before his groundless charges were joined by a chorus of other clueless progressives using the tragedy as a way to blame conservatives?

But, once most of the charges were disproven, (in fact, once we found out this murderer was a leftist and enthralled with atheism, communism, fascism, devil worship, dream interpretation, and nihilism) we were all equally admonished, both left and right, for our uncivil tones.  Hey...I didn't cause any of the problem and neither did any other conservative--why should we be treated with some undeserved moral equivalency?  Even in hockey where fisticuffs break out all of the time they have an instigator penalty.  

Not in politics.  No, in politics we conservatives must be lied about and trashed in the most vile of terms, but when we respond all debate must be toned down for its ugliness.  

While I believe that the sheriff blathered his initial yammering idiocy in as good of faith as an impulsive and guilt ridden yammering idiot possible could, those that piled on even days after the sheriff's libels had been disproven did so for reasons of opportunity--they believe (and rightly so) that if they can use these events to enact legislation that weakens the first and second amendments they will be one step closer to protecting the socialist legislation they have already put in place over the electorate's objections.