The mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, have rightly shocked the nation. In our understandable collective furor over the senseless loss of life, all the old political divides are being revisited, now in a climate of often frightening blame, anger and distrust — from gun control to the role of extremist ideologies to mental health to responsibilities of political leaders not to inflame tensions.
Such reexamination is a fine and good thing.
But what is not is a different sort of outrage, one that leverages the deaths of innocents to destroy the reputations and careers of others.
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