Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Children as political cannon fodder

 


'For God’s sake …': Joe Biden and the Texas tragedy - American Thinker  "For God’s sake, Mister President, don’t turn this tragedy into cheap political capital.

"I just watched President Joe Biden take a stab at playing the role of America’s “mourner in chief,” a role his Democratic predecessor, Bill Clinton, managed quite well.  That may, in fact, have been the only thing Clinton did which actually helped the country.  For all his many failings, Clinton knew the importance of helping people cope with tragedy.

"Unfortunately, Joe Biden didn’t crib this page from Bill Clinton’s playbook. He made it partisan fairly quickly, blaming the tragedy on the "gun lobby" and "gun manufacturers."

"Yet he started out well. As a man who’s lost two children, he has earned the right to let America know what the parents of those precious children must be feeling, and in doing so, give us moral guidance as we all come to terms with this most senseless of tragedies.  As a man who has lost a child – and my son’s mother – to two different and senseless tragedies, I deeply appreciate this role as taken by presidents of both parties, men who know how to help those suffering from a loss they can never overcome.

"After that, it became a political stump speech:". . .

Biden’s appalling response to the tragedy in Texas - American Thinker    

Regarding those errors, if Biden is going to play politics, let’s at least make sure his lies don’t stand unchallenged.

Definitive studies show that the 1994 “assault weapons” ban did not affect gun violence. Unsurprisingly, criminals ignored it. 


Much more on this at American Thinker

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