Watched Jon Stewart's 1/10 broadcast tonight, and as usual, he talked sense. I think it is absurd to blame anyone but the shooter for this atrocity. It is still a good idea to "tone it down," imo.

Although I am not much of a debater myself, I agree with you Lox, that debate is a good thing. However, I think much of what gets called debate, here on Mudcat as well as in the larger world and the media is not debate.

I will interject here, simply because there is no where else to do so, that I am saddened and hurt for the many amazing people I know through my work who are mentally ill, "unbalanced," "crazy," or "deranged," and who already deal with the stigma of major mental illness who are at no risk of harming others, and in fact, are at greater risk of being themselves harmed than is the general population.