Open Thread

June 11th, 2009 10:32 AM

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: murder at the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

At 12:40 p.m. yesterday a man stepped through the doors of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He took two paces, lowered his rifle at a security guard and, before anyone could react, opened fire in a popular national landmark. The guard, who did not have time to draw his gun, fell bleeding and fatally wounded to the polished floor. Other guards fired back, cutting down the assailant. Terrified patrons, many of them children, dived for safety. And what moments before had been a bright weekday in June became a tableau of violence.

The assailant is a long-time white supremacist, anti-Semitic wacko. And yet, liberals are once again blaming conservative talkers for the incident.

Are we at a point in American history that whenever a crime is committed, someone on the right will be accused of instigating it?