Look the Tea Party may not have been directly responsible, but with someone like the shooter who most likely has mental problems, rhetoric from people like Palin, Angle, Paul, and others about the second amendment, and freedom of speech, and immigration must have had some effect on the individual to carry out the attack. The Tea Party does have indirect responsibility and shouldn't be acting as if they don't.
Yes.
A person being obviously crazy doesn't excuse the rhetoric that encouraged him. Assassinations and assassination attempts on congresspeople are rare occurrences. I refuse to believe that in a time where the right-wing has been using alot of borderline rhetoric, that this is a coincidence. A person doesn't need to have an "I 
Palin" t-shirt for the rhetoric going on right now in the political environment to be at fault.
The vast majority of people who try to kill anyone in politics or anyone in general for political are usually crazy. It excuses nothing. I'm not trying to blame specific people as the ones at fault necessarily, I'm blaming the rhetoric as what is at fault, and all those who excuse it.
Gunplay and death threats shouldn't be the new normal in politics and people shouldn't try to excuse it as "free speech." These things have consequences, as exemplified by today.
Most of the rhetoric on the right simply isn't necessary. It's as simple as that. Can't we all agree on that and go from there?
Yes.
