[Rummyfan]

A shameful, hateful homicidal act by a shameful, hateful, homicidal individual. He should be duly indicted, tried, convicted, and executed.

[Spiridon]

Federal or state charges is the ?

If our current weak on the death penalty Democrat Tom Wolf is re-elected PA governor I don’t see a state sentence of death being carried out, but the guy running against him Scott Wagner for the Republicans would support carrying out the sentence.

[tennmountainman]

So much evil walks this earth.

[throwback]

We last ate from the tree of good and evil. We will only regain access to the tree of life when and if we come into the presence of the “Living One”.

[arthurus]

Trying to calm the storm would only gain Trump and the nation a defeat and a far worse storm.

[Avalon Memories]

So Podhoretz doesn’t blame the president for the actual synagogues attack, but goes to say the president is a bad man who isn’t doing enough to calm divisions in the country. This trash is what you post here? Disgusting.

[odawg]

“[Trump’s] just not a good person...”

A vain, useless essay that was written just so he could insert that phrase.

Trying to connect Trump to something that is as old as history is contemptible.

There is nothing new that can be written about such events and this never-Trumper is trying to pose as if he is breaking new ground.

[McGavin999]

I have spent most of my life trying to understand why. Where did this come from? Why does it lurk in the hearts of people? It makes no sense.

[Ancient Man]

As senseless and horrific as today’s Pittsburgh mass murder was, I fear that a much broader and ominous threat lies ahead -— the creation of a pervasive surveillance state. Over and over, I heard that while the killer had no police record, there was plenty of evidence on social media sites to anticipate or predict this lethal event, as if to suggest that intensified monitoring of these sites would guarantee improved public safety and protection.

There’s a large segment of American citizens who firmly believe that it’s the government’s responsibility to protect us from ourselves, and are more than willing to cede personal freedoms and free speech to achieve that end. In other words, to authorize anonymous third-party government monitors to use algorithms developed by unelected, politically motivated bureaucrats to pre-determine who among us represents a threat to society. The term for this is “Pre-Crime.”

Looking forward, what may now be viewed as a good idea could easily be abused by future leaders with more sinister motives in mind. If our stated opinions, attitudes and beliefs expressed on social media can land us on a government threat or enemies list, then we’re just one step away from totalitarian control and extra-judicial roundups. Entrusting anyone, especially government, with this kind of power won’t guarantee either safety or protection, but rather the likely absence of both. Be very careful what you wish for.

[DarthVader]

Drawn and quartered!

[Jim W N]

Presumptively Islamic Jihadism. The stupid leftist media will never admit such.

But the Right should. Unexplainable mayhem, especially against Jews are an Islamic terrorist pattern for decades, and we need to call a spade a spade.

Presumptively Islamic Jihadism.

[faithhopecharity]

A fine essay until he tossed in that one libelous line about ( with zero backing, evidence, or even explanation) that PDJT is somehow a “bad person.” WTH is that in there for? Certainly a brilliant man like the author knows he’s violated a Jewish teaching against falsely or unnecessarily disparaging another person. This “sin” is considered one of the very worst violations of Jewish religious law, too. Indeed, it’s even been taught that it is in a way worse then murder. Because, it leaves its victim to suffer sometimes terrible social ostracization and pain for the rest of his life. Of all people on earth, the Jews have, collectively, suffered just this kind of hate at least as much or more so than probably any other peoples. So, there’s absolutely no excuse for a Jewish writer to smear PDJT in print - without cause. “You shall not go around as a gossipmonger”

—Leviticus

“Evil gossip kills three: the one who says it, the one who listens, and the subject of the gossip”

—Talmud

[thoughtomator]

Podhoretz is full of it. This is not at all a classic act of anti-Semitic violence, but a political act in response to multiculturalism. The guy explictly points to exactly what his problem is - Soros-run resettlement programs.

[FreeReign]

Where I won’t let Trump off the hook here is the way in which he does nothing to try to calm the political atmosphere and rather seeks to secure an advantage from the way it roils. He should be better than this, because everyone should, and he’s not, and that’s both sad and bad. He’s just not a good person, and there are times, times like these, when the country would benefit from having a better person as president.

Podhertz says that we need to "calm the political atmosphere" but in his next sentence he personally attacks Trump and calls him a bad person.

Podhertz comments are ironic and they're not politically calming.

[faithhopecharity]

It is otherwise a very good essay , just excuse that superfluous line

[dynoman]

Everyone here should watch the first 15 minutes of Trump with the FFA. He had both a rabbi and pastor pray.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-mIimIdNjY

[Bonemaker]

Is that a “gun free” synagogue?

[Beatthedrum]

The dem posing as a Trump supporter sends fake bombs, that are incapable of detonating and no-one is killed.

This POS who hates Trump slaughters 11 innocent people and the MSM is still trying to blame Trump

[faithhopecharity]

The essay author should know that most people are neither good nor bad, they choose each day, minute by minute, whether to behave morally or not. It’s calmed free will and it’s a core Jewish religious principle. So, it can sometimes be appropriate to call out a bad , immoral decision or deed. It is normally not appropriate - not accurate - to call the actor a “bad person.” ( there are some people who behave so consistently in immoral bad ways that yes they may be just termed evil 😈 people. Hitler, moslem terrorists, Abbas, Stalin , pol pat— but most people who do something wrong might possibly repent of it and act righteously the next day. Calling PDJT a “bad man” is violative of Jewish religious law. And especially as the essay author failed to cite any evil deeds to even begin to justify such a defamatory broadside. ( other then that one superfluous line, his essay is pretty good).

[montag813]

Since he murdered Jews in a synagogue, he should be subject to one of the Torah-proscribed forms of execution:

Stoning, burning, beheading, or strangulation.

To be carried out by a group of Jews. I would happily volunteer.

[Texas Eagle]

Based on the early evidence, the shooter was not only consumed with a hatred of Jews but possessed a kind of sneering contempt for Trump on the grounds that Trump was basically a Jewish agent or a Jew-lover himself.

Ah, yes. Your sneering contempt for Trump is much more noble, John.