What happened Charleston was not a tragedy.
It was an atrocity.
The tragedies have started, and will continue to. It will be blaming your opponents for the atrocity, and trying to score some political points. The President, idiot that he is, did exactly that. I do not know of any right wing politicians who replied that if any of the slain had a gun, it might have turned out differently, though I am sure several have.
In cases such as this, the opponents of the death penalty usually stay silent. That should not be the signal for those who favor the death penalty to crow loudly. Make your arguments well, there are good ones on both sides, and do not use this case or others.
So many of the left, seeing the right as operationally racist, reveals their true nature. Just demonize your opponents. That is why liberals are always wrong. They ask the wrong questions, assume the answers. Conservatives, on the other hands, ask the right questions, assume nothing, find the data, and come to conclusion more successfully than liberals. The liberals simply assumed that conservatives would not be wholly in horror over the events, and never bothered the universal condemnation. The left's favorite boogeyman, Bill O'Reilly, called it a terrorist attack.
Not one conservative said "This is terrible, but...." No equivocations.
Here is an idea for my liberal friends. Roof wanted to divide us. Let us prove him wrong by uniting. Leave the political attacks at the door.