The incomparable Tammy Bruce writes in the left wing British Guardian on the way in which the left jumped at the chance to push their gun control agenda as soon as news of the shooting in Aurora Colorado broke. Just as they did with the Oklahoma bombing and the attack on Gabriel Giffords, the left cannot help themselves and search for ways to blame conservatives, Republicans and, more recently, the Tea Party. They have no shame and no concern for the victims. It is all about politics for them. “Never let a good crisis go to waste” was how Rahm Emanuel put it when he was in Washington, and they never do. Over and over again, the left looks for ways to push the agenda.
Just today our Illinois Governor Pat Quinn came out with a statement arguing for more gun control in our state. No statement about the awful nature of the Aurora shooting or sympathy for the victims. No, just a push for more anti-gun legislation to keep law abiding citizens from being able to defend themselves. And, of course, no recognition that we already have lots of laws on the books here that the criminals pay no attention to when they are perpetrating the highest rates of violence in the nation. Lots of law here in Chicago, for instance. Yet somehow they have no effect at all on the criminals.
Imagine that.
After the horrific mass murder at the Batman movie launch in Aurora, Colorado early Friday morning, Americans were once again unable to grieve without being pounced on by politicians and liberals seeking to politicize the tragedy for their own political gain. As we are praying for the victims and the families, some of us had to counter the shameless first instinct of liberals to politicize the tragedy.
What was some of the first “reporting” by the news media? In a now infamous act by ABC’s Brian Ross, he got political. Instead of focusing on the extraordinary stories of heroism by first responders, the efforts by churchgoers who, in another theatre, rushed out to carry victims to safety and minister to those who were targeted by a psychopathic stranger, Ross decided this obscene event would be a great opportunity to confer blame on the Tea Party.
While ABC was the only network to go that far (they have since apologized), President Obama was declaring that there would be “other days for politics”, yet almost immediately, his spokesman at the White House took the advice of Obama guru Rahm Emanuel and decided to “not let a good crisis go to waste” by announcing a commitment to further gun control.
