Pass Over Responsibility

     So apparently the 19 year-old punk who shot up that synagogue near San Diego and murdered a woman isn't a fan of Trump because of his support of Israel. He also complained in his 8chan manifesto (they always have a manifesto, don't they?) that conservatives aren't violent enough in their political beliefs.
     As if the world doesn't already have enough Cesar Sayocs and Robert Bowers in it. And Bowers inspired him, he said. A point I'd brought up in an article I'd written here years ago after another mass shooting was about just that:

     That we'd one day reach such a saturation point that these assholes would begin to inspire each other, that it would graduate from a mere lone wolf phenomeno to something akin to some murderous community where inspiration would increasingly be taken and it would become a self perpetuating thing.
     And Asshole Zero in the Oval Office will never accept his responsibility for his reckless rhetoric and neither will his policy makers and propagandists at Fox "News". Because to admit culpability is to address that mistakes have been made. And the next step is to correct those mistakes and ensure against their repetition.
     And people like Trump just find it easier to let the status quo continue and to let innocents get shot and killed by rabid white nationalists, Neonazis and antisemites, to choke off blame at the parochial level and pretend their message of hate, racism and intolerance does not have consequences, that their words are not being heard. In just the last few days, mosques have been bombed and burned, churches in Sri Lanka were bombed on Easter weekend and yesterday, on the last day of Passover, a synagogue was shot up and a woman killed.
     But more and more of these gunmen are telling us they heard... and obeyed.