Gabby has been so notably middle-of-the-road that she's been called a 'blue dog' by more liberally-inclined folks, yet she was viciously attacked by RWE's in the last election for being 'liberal' and even 'socialist'. Juxtaposing those facts, it cannot be avoided that an atmosphere of hate and anger was created, artificially, about her for its gratuitous application by an unbalanced person. She was just not ordinarily in the 'target' posture, and worked very hard to reflect the views of all the community she served, and was very non-partisan in that approach. She voted against Pelosi and Obama several times, unfortunately imo.The 'fiddling' of the direct cause argument is fatuous. Hate mongering killed 6 people, maybe more. This pathetic perp suffered John Wilkes Booth syndrome -- wanted to be a hero and not make those in his circle mad at him. So now he's a historic figure. I guess he got his wish. It is our patriotic duty to engage or debate in civil terms based on fact. We have experienced a massive betrayal of that duty and are reaping the whirlwind for that reason. Government's credibility, partly as a function of 'credible deniability', has vanished in the breeze. The result is that when 'big lies' are caught en flagrante, much of public perception and reaction is simply that 'they all do it', and this reaction is used by certain partisan media to shield them from responsibility for those lies. Think Elmer Gantry or Lonesome Rhodes. It's nothing new for those conversant in history. The question remains of our Republic, "can we keep it".