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There are times when even the capture of the culprit fails to quench people’s thirst for justice. This usually happens in the wake of horrific, mind-bending crimes like the shooting in Arizona last weekend that killed six people and injured scores of others. The gunman’s intended target, a congresswoman, has barely escaped with her life, for now.

But in the heated aftermath â€" sparked by comments by the Tucson sheriff, who was a close friend of two of the victims â€" there seems to be a wider indictment being brought by some in the media. He suggested that a general political climate of intolerance caused these events.

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