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Let's keep in mind the last congress person to be shot was a Democrat (Gabby Giffords). It happens to both parties. Hopefully the shooter was able to communicate what his motivation was before he died. Great job by responding cops.

SSG Michael Hartsfield As the event has moved from the active shooter to the investigation phase, the question is becoming more to the point. Right now everyone is outraged that a member of the congress to which they belong was attacked. As time passes the vitriol will return, and it will be business as usual. You are absolutely right. I have been following a live feed of this morning's events, and people are hateful to each other. I saw a person comment that "All Democrats should lose their rights" Why would anyone even suggest that. I have also seen suggestions that democrats be banned altogether. I personally am in favor of dissolution of all political parties. Let politicians stand for the constituents who sent them to Washington, but that is not a topic for today. Today we should as a society be grateful that the only life lost in today's events was that of the attacker. We should be taking an extra moment to find our own humanity. I am not suggesting a massive kumbaya sing along. I am just saying that we don't have to tear each other down in disagreement. That video is pretty spot on. I know it is supposed to be applied to the bloods and crips in CA, but it can be readily applied to republicans and democrats in DC as well.

My first reaction was, I hope everyone is ok. My second was, who did get hurt and are they ok? My third, who did it? This led to speculating what could have happened while reports continued to come in. Was it terrorism, random, targeted? As information came in I learned a possible "white man" shot a GOP Congressman and his aides. This led to speculating again, but I continued to hold my thoughts to see what the conclusion came to (for all we know the Congressman slept with his wife). Now we know the man is a alleged Bernie fan who apparently hates Republicans. As a Republican you could say this concerns me slightly, to know someone could resort to violence against someone like myself simply because of my politics. I then consider the politics and the rhetoric which inspires one to resort to such violence. All we know is that the guy is a possible Bernie fan who wrote opinions on taxing the rich and how much he hates Republicans. I don't know what his position is on guns at this time, but I would imagine that if he's against them, he is also hypocrite on top of being a would-be murderer.

Had I been there and in a position to defend those who were shot, regardless of their political affiliation, I would do so. Stating an opinion about the guy and criticizing his politics after the fact is not an example of someone putting political factions over the lives of fellow Americans. When Sen Giffords was shot, I felt the same way and I would have reacted the same way in attempting to protect Giffords.