Crazy People with Guns

Sometimes, they just happen to be on the left.

Example A.  Excerpts:

...The man authorities say was angry with the conservative stance of the Family Research Council and shot the group’s unarmed security guard in a downtown D.C. office was ordered by a judge Thursday to undergo a mental evaluation.

An FBI affidavit quotes 28-year-old Floyd Lee Corkins II of Herndon telling the guard, “I don’t like your politics” as he pulled a 9mm Sig Sauer pistol from a backpack he had carried with him on Metrorail from East Falls Church...

In his bag, court documents say, police found 50 rounds of ammunition and 15 sandwiches from Chick-fil-A, which combined with the suspect’s statement added a political dimension to the shooting. The head of the Atlanta-based fast-food chain has spoken out against same-sex marriage, a stance embraced by the Family Research Council. Corkins had been volunteering at a U Street NW support center for the gay community...

And, from a few years ago, Example B. Excerpts:

 A radical enviornmentalist [sic] who took three hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters while wearing what police may be explosives was shot and killed by officers, police said...

Just something to remember next time everyone starts talking about such things.  It's been a favorite political tactic on the left and the right for centuries, after all.

And what prompts such an act from someone on any side of the political spectrum?  In some sense, it's always the product of despair.  A person looks at the world and comes to the conclusion that everything is rotten.  The world is so fallen, so broken, so corrupt, that this is the only way for things to ever get better.  If they are truly desperate, then their act of violence is a last gesture of repudiation thrown against a world that they see no value in.

In other words, these shooters are Sweeney Todd.

And the consequences for them are the same as the consequences he faced--destroying all that he loved, or wounding it gravely. When you come to the point of doing something so massively unjust, so massively evil, as going out and shooting up a roomful of innocents, then you have become the nightmare you sought to destroy.

How do we actually fight the darkness and win? Like so: