"...It was a cruel weekend.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul was attacked from behind by his neighbor while the Senator was mowing the grass.
Five of his ribs were broken.
...If that was the worst of it that would be bad enough, but it wasn’t, and the events that took place on Sunday were simply horrifying.
...What hit me went beyond the fact that innocent people were being harmed by crazed individuals.
It was the reaction to it that hit me.
According to many, Rand Paul deserved to be attacked by his neighbor.
To people in my timeline, it was right that those Christians died. Why?
Because Rand Paul is a Republican.
Because those Christians were white and in Texas, and that means they have to be Republicans.
Some took a different tac, and immediately attacked Republicans for the Sutherland Springs attack whole hog like Chelsea Handler did.
For her, it was the Republicans’ fault because they like guns.
Or for others, it was the NRA’s fault, because they’re supposedly putting guns into the hands of anything with a pulse.
Despite my years of working in the media and being confronted with all the worst humanity has to offer, it’s things like this that I still cannot wrap my head around.
...But in a time when our nation is bleeding, the idea that a mob could unite to further turn on their fellow countrymen is still a thing I cannot understand.
...Why would the mob condemn the targeting of one group on one day, and celebrate the targeting of another group the next?
...Has the media painted the right as evil so well that people literally think that the average white Christian is akin to a terrorist, and must be eliminated?..."
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