On CNN last night, Charleston pastor Thomas Dixon was on with Erin Burnett and Marc Lamont Hill discussing the mass murder there, as well as the Confederate flag and other race issues. As part of the discussion, Burnett asked the pastor why it seemed that race relations are worse now under President Obama than they were just after he first took office. During his answer, the pastor made a terrible accusation.

"The more that this happened with the Tea Party movement, the attack by the Republicans and conservatives against our President, the more it opened up the door for those who were more, more or less afraid, should I say, or skeptical about speaking on these issues to feel more freedom and latitude in presenting the way that they truly felt. So now we see the end result of that."

That end result he is referring to is the massacre in Charleston. In other words, Republicans and the Tea Party "opened the door" for the attack, simply for, it would seem, opposing President Obama.

His implication is perfectly clear. The left will take political advantage of this terrible attack, and you can be certain it will not be just guns they come after. Anything the Democrats feel compelled to control - even, as in this case, mere opposition to an elected politician - can and will be painted as, in the words of Marc Lamont Hill in the same segment, "a broader network of domestic terror."