I just came back from getting a morning coffee for my wife. The place was packed like on a typical Sunday morning, including what looked like a family, all nicely dressed from having stopped in after church. As I was leaving, I overheard a man say to his wife: "Well, if that Congresslady dies, it's God's will."

I normally don't get involved with other people's conversations. Really I don't. Especially when they are of a religious nature. Everyone is entitled to their own religious beliefs, after all. But I couldn't help myself. "Excuse me, I asked?"

The man repeated himself. I couldn't believe what I was hearing, and said so. Then he said something even more incredulous: "That Congresslady got what she deserved. That's what in store for all liberals."

THAT did it.

After reading all the reactionary rhetoric on various blogs and forums this morning, I let him have it. I told him I was a liberal and asked if that meant I was "in store" to get shot, too. I told him that a 9-year old girl and a Republican judge got killed, too. Was that God's will for them, too? Were they liberals who deserved to get killed?

Thankfully, I wasn't the only person letting this jackass make comments like that. A few other people overheard what was going on, and immediately tried to show how inflammatory his comments were. Another woman joined me, and appealed to the guy's wife by saying: "A 9-year old girl was shot, too. Imagine if it was your daughter!" The wife didn't say anything and then quietly said, "Well, she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. We'll pray for her."

After a few minutes (it felt like an hour), I left. Has it really come to this? "God's will?" "That's what in store for liberals."???