Gunmen kill one, wound six in Sunday shootings; Tea Party rhetoric must be calmed

A woman was shot and killed, and two sheriff’s deputies were wounded, outside a Port Orchard, Washington Wal-Mart yesterday.

Four Detroit police officers were shot yesterday.  All are expected to survive, thank goodness.

If nothing else is clear from these tragedies, this is:  we must work immediately to stop the incendiary right-wing political rhetoric that is obviously a primary cause of these crimes.

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