A suggestion? Those of us wishing to discuss the tragedy without speculation, politics, etc. simply do so and ignore those who wish to insert their agenda.
I, for one, can't recall a day in which I haven't had Giffords and her family in my thoughts as far as hoping for a speedy recovery. I honestly think often of her husband and cannot imagine the depths of his despair to have that which is the most important fixture in his life yank towards the brink for no reason other than the unaided mental dereliction of a random man who became obsessed.
Furthermore I mourn for a little girl who's birthday was marred with one of our nation's greatest tragedies and who ultimately became a symbol of how fragile and precious life really is.
Senseless violence can strike anyone at any time. As logical creatures we naturally attempt to apply logic and causality to it. But in that we forget that sometimes things happen with explainations we cannot logically comprehend, because the very act is illogical.
Human sense does not apply to the senseless. While all things are causally related, human social structures and behaviors, within the spectrum of human reasoning, do not necessarily follow that rule.
When it is all said and done, hopefully if you learn one lesson it is this: We all have a choice to make. It's the choice between being able to rise above our opinions, political dispensations, social passions, etc, and acknowledging and uniting within tragedy, or regressing to such opinions and passions in an attempt to explain it away.
Who do you want to be?
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