It hasn't been yet a month since the Sandy Hook school shootings. Amid the holiday festivities have been feelings of grief and helplessness and anger, and a nationwide dialogue about what can be done, if anything, to prevent another school shooting. Then again, we heard those questions after the last school shooting, and the one before that...

Now that the horror of the assination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (and the murder of six others) in Tucson has marinated for a few days, the heat is being turned up on those who have used "gun rhetoric" to murder (or rather, vote out of office) liberal politicians.