A sitting Democrat representative was gunned down with her husband and dog less than four months ago and Republicans mocked the whole thing, don’t pretend like this is the first shot on either side. It’ll obviously embolden more right-wing nutjobs to continue their decades-long streak of politically motivated shootings, but I’m just not gonna sit here and express sympathy for someone who was directly responsible for the climate in which this happened to him. Christ’s sake, he didn’t even have any metal detectors! At a conservative event in a red state! What did he fucking think would happen? He even hired extra security, fat lot of good that did…
