We are all Americans. We are all on the same side. We all want the same basic things- peace and prosperity for ourselves, our families, our friends, our neighbors, our fellow Americans. The shooter was a nut job no matter what his political views were. I fear for our nation when the rhetoric becomes too extreme. We need to reject this on both sides. We are Americans and we must stand together. "All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined,...could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we ourselves must be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we must live through all times, or die by suicide." - Abraham Lincoln