Will the Republicans blaming "Anti-Trump rhetoric" for 1 of today's shootings remember their words

[ck4829]

Next time they're calling American Muslims a creeping cancer?

Next time they're saying transgender people are all deviants who just want to go in bathrooms for some nefarious purpose?

Next time they're calling people with pre-existing conditions "scammers" and we don't need to worry about them because they probably deserve what they're getting anyway?

[pbmus]

1. Next time they call for marshal law...

[SHRED]

2. I'm confused

I thought they were all about "2nd Amendment Solutions"?

[Zoonart]

3. Let's not forget...

Lock her up and KILL HER!

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

4. One answer for all 3 questions

Hell no!

[Freethinker65]

5. That is why we remind them.

Luckily their comments are preserved on "tape" and social media.

[Igel]

6. Here's a question.

Do we honestly believe that the anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim, anti-LGBT, anti-abortion rhetoric triggered any attacks on Jews, Muslims, or abortion clinics?

If yes, own that belief and act on it. If no, then there's nothing to complain about because such speech is meaningless--and apart from making the speakers and listeners feel good, without effect. (Although granted, feeling good is a strong effect, all those endorphins and whatnot).

I mean, really. Both sides deny that the rhetoric has any effect at all when they engage in it; both insist that the other side is uniquely horrible for encouraging and fomenting such attacks with such rhetoric when those kinds of attacks actually happen. It's one or neither. We're all human, and mental illness doesn't seem, in spite of attempts to define anything that's not-like-us as deranged, to pick and choose political parties. I personally have trouble defining Hodgkinson as mentally ill.

If they're wrong for saying things that can cause weak minds to go off and kill Muslims, GLBTers, etc., it's not something I can defend when I do it. I have no control over them; but I do have control over me, more at some times than at others. When I see somebody else indulging in something I consider immoral, I'd like to think I have enough principles to not say, "Hey, if he can be bad, why can't I violate my own conscience?" So I don't.