fair point they tend to represent themselves poorly enough.
After that girl, openly admitted to bullying the fucking freak that shot up the school. And hogg being hogg, and the air around them and how they respond to these things i've seen a lot rubbed the wrong way.
I think it actually bumped the republican points up like 10

“But to blame children for a school shooting is completely asinine.”
We do in fact have one to blame, and he’s currently in prison.
What curbs sympathy, when someone is a part of the problem has the Gall she has to call honest citizens children killers, while she definitively had more influence and direct culpability than the blow hard LaPierre and gun owners in general. It's hypocrisy to a certain extent, and her reaction "you didn't know him" and her justifications for that are very harsh and while i don't believe she should necessarily have sympathy for a shooter, others might want her to reflect on it better. Now for most people their moralizing is enough, their handlers have likely radicalized them and when i hear them speak they seem to have a trumped up view of themselves.
also wearing a Cuban flag was a bad choice too, not just for the American right but because when most people think of think stopping gun violent I think of che and his love of watching executions (presumably by pickaxe considering how much they dislike guns). That and the gun fights and murders during the revolution. Hell I'll think of oppressive socialist societies.

“Maybe people simply did not like him because he was so off.”
Well that must suck then, image being born with something you cannot control and being severely punished for it. like god conspiracy against you.