[MaggieL]

This is one of the central flaws of liberalism. Faced with violence, enacting their core psychodramas lead them to be driven by a need to become visibly and dramatically verklempt with "compassion for a victim". Unfortunately this somehow robs them of the ability to be dispassionate long enough to reason out who is actually responsible for the violence.

When Hezbollah kills civilians by hiding among them after an attack, it's the Israelis who are to blame rather than Hezbollah, who has turned their homes into missile emplacements and mosques into armories and munitions magazines. When a teenager is killed helping a drug dealer commit a burglary, it's the farmer defending his home and property who is somehow at fault, rather than the career felon corrupting the morals of a child.

When the absurdity of the outcomes of this political correctness becomes unsupportable, they trot out the last line of defense: the "everyone is to blame/equally at fault" moral equivalance song.