One year after Aurora: opposing rallies in the same location (see details). How can we de-politicize this (or any) tragedy?

Why should you?
Events like that serve only to remind you of the problems your country has and that politics should move their arses to try to solve them.
Do you think it would have been a good idea to drown any political discussion about safety regulations every time a plane or a car crashes?
No progress would have ever been made if ‘politicising’ had been suppressed after tragedies.

You can’t – unless we have martial law in this country.

People (i.e. citizens) read newspaper and form opinions. People with like opinions get together and demonstrate. This is a rite and responsibility of citizenship, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Remember that the word polis (in Greek) is where the word politics comes from—and polis means ‘citizens’.

So as long as there are people around, there will be politics and differences of opinion.

And this was not a tragedy – this was an entirely predictable and preventable event, whose existence was brought about by our asinine gun laws.

I don’t believe in canonizing tragedies. Deal with it, change what you can and move on. I detest anniversary tributes to tragedies, like 9–11. It happened, it sucked, we learned something, maybe, we have implemented stricter security codes, let it be, let the dead R.I.P.
It is not psychologically healthy to keep re-living the past over & over again.

Gun clubs using any shooting as a podium to strengthen their own self serving stance are beyond moronic, thy evil.
If my 2 year olds face is ripped off by a Pit Bull I do not want you to shove your oh, so sweet Pit Bull in my face. Pfft!

@elbanditoroso
‘polis’ means ‘city’

People will jump on any hobby horse to ride their viewpoint.

Pro-massacre demonstrators?

Another reason I refer to the population as divided between “conservatives” and “normal people”.