Where is the line between sympathy and repulsion?

The day of the Amish school shootings, CBS evening news had a guest commentary from the father of a Columbine shooting victim.





He blamed school shootings on "taking God out of schools and government" and abortion among other things.





On one hand, you sympathize with him for losing a child, on the other you feel repulsed by his taking advantage of it to promote his personal platform.





You also wonder, are people really this simplistic? Do they really think that before their lifetime, everyone was a Christian and nothing bad ever happened? Have they not read history? If it was really as simple as the quick fix they long for, the world would have been perfected ages ago.





Lastly, one has to wonder how much violence has at its root the existential horror of being surrounded by a majority of simplistic, paternalistic and / or irrational people. If people like this guest commentator want to increase the level of God in our lives, they may increase the violence.

Where is the line between sympathy and repulsion?
You can only think how would you act in that situation, what would you say. Americans are the most judging and unforgiving people. He is upset and wouldn't really say the most thought out comments. This does not mean I agree with him just that I will take his comment as a human emotion.