Did Democrats cause Texas shooting?

Actually, it would be easy to say 'Democrats caused Texas Shooting', followed by spewing contempt and loathing on Democrats as the party that wants people dead or shootings or whatever.

Fact is, pushing through legislation is a difficult thing.  Consider the following academic treatment of the process:

Yep, we all know it.  It remains to be seen if this would have stopped the shooting.  And even so, was this something even on the radar of the Democrats, could Cruz have taken a different path, or what other factors are there worth considering?  All questions worth asking.

No, I can't help but think one of our biggest problems is that we have made politics our God, and we all are willing to engage in jihad for our new Almighty.  We watched the following special about Jimmy Stewart last week:

It's long, but worth the watch.  If for no other reason than Stewart is one of the truly heroic American celebrities in the last century, and a genuinely good man.  While we were watching it, my boys noticed that many of those singing his praises (including host Carson), were actually Democrats.  Maybe not liberal Democrats in the modern sense, but clearly liberal and clearly Democrat.  Stewart, on the other hand, was famously conservative and an open supporter of Reagan and the GOP.

And yet - they noticed - everyone seemed to love the guy.  This was in stark contrast to the death of Charlton Heston, which was met with half baked memorials from so many on the Left, if they mentioned him at all.  A few civil rights leaders did give him high fives for being one of the biggest A-List celebrities to support the Civil Rights Movement back in the day, but stopped short of fully celebrating his legacy due to his politics.

My boys asked what happened.  Easy.  Politics is now God.  It is everywhere and in everything.  And more than that, it is a burning, zealous, fanatical religion.  It teaches us to hate those who vote differently.  To hate those who don't agree; to see their disagreement as an unspoken desire to kill and murder and maim and oppress us; to understand their differences as a hate based assault against us.

But the special in question, made in the late 1980s (while Reagan was still president), showed a different world.  It's worth noting that, with the exception of Richard Dreyfuss and Sally Field, most interviewed were from an earlier era.  And even those two were Boomers, still reflecting the attitudes that predated the postmodern notion of Politics as Jihad.

So for this, remembering the complexities of the real world and an age where adults still understood that fact, I'll not say Democrats caused the Texas shooting, or any such thing.  I'll leave it as an example of the complexities of politics and social issues, and reference it later when someone tries to say 'GOP starves babies' because the GOP might actually think there is a better way to help feed babies than what the Democrats are proposing. After all, it's not like Jesus said that only one party was capable of doing His will.