Since the Tuscon shooting has become a cultural touch point many have given their opinions on its' causes and meaning.
I offer this. It seems that a commonality in the opinions that I've read goes something like this, the shooters' attack on Ms. Giffords and others was an attack on all of us, or society at large.
I think that such expressions have the effect of demeaning the very real and permanent pain of the specific people involved and makes the murderer much larger than he is.
The grief of the families of those involved is their own. The shooter assaulted individuals made in the image of God, attempting to take from them their inalienable right to life, and in some cases succeeding. For this his life is forfeit. Any further justice is left to the one righteous Judge.
