Today 19 people were shot. It doesn't really matter who they were or what they did because in the end human life was extinguished and the reason is still not clear why. Several of the people injured or killed today were political figures. That doesn't diminish the tragedy. It also doesn't mean that politics should diminish their lives because they were for or against a particular policy. A nine year old girl was shot in the back and died while heroes tried desperately to save her. Several people died on the scene and others are fighting for their lives. There's a reason that I don't mention a single person by name, even those with names that would mean something to people outside the families who are suffering right now. There really isn't a good reason to name them. They are people, humans, and they deserved life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and tragically it was taken from them by someone who didn't care or who was just as tragic as their victims.
Today there have been people from all walks of political persuasion that have been decrying this as a result of lack of gun control, lack of border security, Sarah Palin, tea party anger, the health care law, the list goes on and on. Leveraging the tragic loss of life for political gain is tantamount to grave robbing. Nothing is quite so despicable as political hacks one uping each other during a tragedy. It makes things all the worse because we're left with bitterness at politicians instead of grief for the loss of life. My heart goes out to those who are suffering right now.
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