I will acknowledge and concede that politics alone is not likely to have driven this man to brain imbalance. I have no problem believing that if he hadn't been inspired by the political environment, he would have been a mere footnote in the news, state-level if he were lucky, as some random mall or school shooting.

However, what I am personally upset about is not that it happened, but that so many people in the Republican party, in their attempt to connect with what they perceive as a populist movement and to "stir men's hearts and minds to mutiny", have used violence as metaphor and refused to acknowledge that their choice of words might have influenced this man's choice of target.

(This anger increases exponentially if any of the hand-wringing apologists have ever moved or voted to ban or restrict access to any type of book, music, game or art on the grounds that "impressionable people might get the wrong message". I have no proof that any of the individuals in question *have* done so; it's just that hypocrisy is a rage trigger for me.)