Too bad this wasn't front page immediately, but I do respect careful reporting as non-politicized as possible. The two dead heroes didn't politicize their response, one a liberal and one an office-seeking conservative. 

Thank the goodness of their humanity for standing up on that train for those young women. While the murderer was most certainly influenced and encouraged by the harsh rhetoric of his right-wing Facebook brethren and their sympathetic elected leaders, it takes a truly sick mind for him to plan and follow through with such carnage. He even practiced baiting people on the same train in the days before. 

It would have been a step forward for our president if he had personally responded to this horrific action with words of consolation for their families and a vow to seek justice for all the victims, living and dead.