By John F. Di Leo -
On Monday, September 16, 2013, a gunman entered the
Washington Navy Yards and began a shooting rampage in which a dozen were killed
and still more were wounded. As America
watched in horror, President Barack Hussein Obama delivered a televised rant,
attacking Republicans, conservatives, and of course, the law-abiding firearms
owners who might have helped to stop the carnage, had they been allowed.
The National Rifle Association has a practice of not talking
politics on the day that such events unfold.
Even though such occasions are invariably excellent examples of the need
for gun ownership by the law-abiding – in particular, the need for both open
carry and concealed carry – both the Second Amendment lobbyists and most
conservative politicians try to avoid political arguments during these
shootings. They try to give the country
time to absorb, time to breathe, sometimes time to mourn, before discussing the
political implications.
Democrat politicians feel bound by no such rules of decorum. President Obama’s Monday speech shocked
countless Americans with its naked partisanship, delivered while victims just
blocks from the Capitol were still on the brink between life and death, while
emergency responders were still combing the buildings for perpetrators,
transporting the wounded to neighborhood hospitals. A topic for the week, for awhile equal in
volume to the coverage of the shooting itself, was how peculiar it was to hear
such rank partisanship and vitriol in the very hour in which real Americans
were coming together in mourning and shock.
