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The man wanted for the slaying of four Washington State police officers should have been behind bars, but he wasn’t. Mike Huckabee, then the governor of Arkansas, decided to let the guy out of jail – a criminal with a very violent history. In a statement released by Huckabee, he decides to blame everyone else:

Tony Snow died from colon cancer last night. Even though I didn't agree with him much, there was still something about him I always liked. Perhaps it was in part to him being a hometown boy from Cincinnati. Please keep his wife and three children in your thoughts and prayers.

While working and listening to MSNBC this afternoon, I would have sworn Ted Kennedy had died. They were damn near eulogizing him on air. Positive thoughts anyone?

On while on that subject - My thoughts and prayers are with Ted and his family. I won't go into a dramatic MSNBC style wake, since I have faith he will be back in the halls of Senate in no time.

Well if your Tony Perkins, you blame the "secular media":

It is hard not to draw a line between the hostility that is being fomented in our culture from some in the secular media toward Christians and evangelicals in particular and the acts of violence that took place in Colorado yesterday. But I will say no more for now other than that our friends at New Life Church and YWAM are in our thoughts and prayers.

(h/t Think Progress)

The wingnuts were going crazy yesterday over the reports that Matthew Murray, the Colorado gunman, "hated Christians". Powerline even went as far as to equate this to hate crimes against Muslims:

A law enforcement official says the deadly rampages at a megachurch and a missionary training school were believed to have been carried out by the same person—Matthew Murray, a 24-yeare-old suburban Denver man who "hated Christians."

Of course there is one simple fact they fail to disclose in all their outrage:

The gunman was identified as Matthew Murray, 24, who was home-schooled in what a friend said was a deeply religious Christian household. Murray's father is a neurologist and a leading multiple-sclerosis researcher.

I don't see anything in there indicating the "secular media" may have helped lead to this carnage. One thing I did see that might be an indicator of what put this young man over the edge:

But that doesn't stop the venomous Michelle Malkin from starting a campaign against firearm bans.

Families are just now finding out that they have lost a loved one in this tragedy. The mourning process has not even started yet, but that doesn't stop the right from trying to find a way to politicize something so horrible.

There are arguments that can be made on the right and left over today's tragedy, but can we please give it at least a day before we start politicizing it? Anyone that jumps on these situations to make a point appear to be the ones who love such situations. It is sick. Stop and think about what happened today and air your arguments tomorrow. The victims deserve this little bit of compassion from their country men (and women).

UPDATE:

Within a couple of hours of this news, the White House coudln't resist the need to politicize it:

"He was horrified and his immediate reaction was one of deep concern for the families of the victims, the victims themselves, the students, the professors and all the people of Virginia who have dealt with this shocking incident," White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino said. "His thoughts and prayers are with them."

"The president believes that there is a right for people to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed," Perino said, noting that Bush and Education Secretary Margaret Spellings held a conference on school gun violence last October. "Certainly, bringing a gun into a school domitory and shooting ... is against the law and something someone should be held accountable for," Perino said.

And now we got CNN playing audio of the gun shooting. I am sure the family and students really wants to hear that right now.