What's odd is that once I literally *bumped into* Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna at a Safeway in Olympia. It was just your typical two people meeting at blind intersections thing, and I said I was sorry and picked up the groceries and we had a nice chuckle about it.
Lucky for him I wasn't a gun crazed schizophrenic, I suppose.
Seriously. The most disgusting thing about this is that, rather than pause and consider that MAYBE all this violent rhetoric and gun-based imagery isn't the best idea, the right hasn't skipped a beat in turning this into a "VOTE REPUBLICAN OR THE DEMON-RATS WILL TAKE YOUR GUNS!!!11" platform.
I got news for you Americans with your false equivalences: All countries are fucked, but not all countries are fucked equally. There are degrees. The US is not on the low end of this scale.
The headlines today were all like "Important person in critical condition" and you had to read the article to see "P. S. Six less important people died."