It was inevitable that something like this would happen, given the way our discourse has descended into the fetishizing of violence. We have had politicians (Sarah Palin, Sharon Angle) and pundits (Bill O’Reilly) use language and symbols that strip the stigma from this kind of behavior. When you place a politician in a crosshairs, as Palin did on her website, or call for “second-amendment remedies” as Angle did, you inevitably empower those with a violent streak to act.
What politicians like Palin and Angle forget is that words matter, they have real meaning and impact. I’m not calling for censorship, but we need to get past the sloppy (I’m being generous) use of language in the political realm and back to a respect for the meanings of what we say.
Hank Kalet 
What will happen and is beginning to happen in some comments sections of some political web sites is that the latest mass murderer is being portrayed as a liberal lefty. So we are just to ignore all the hateful rantings of talk radio which is over 90% radical right wing. In addition, the righties will draw an equivalency between right and left and say that the left engages in hate speech, too. If you try to bring up the fact that this unstable person was able to legally buy a semi-automatic glock with extra bullet clips and the insanity of this situation, you will be howled down by the gun worshipers. On and on this blood bath goes with no end in sight. When is enough enough in this country? The 9 innocent people who were gunned down in a Manchester, CT, workplace shooting in August 2010 are barely even remembered. What will change as a result of this latest mass murder in Arizona?