For the media, for the politicians, the infants killed by Kermit Gosnell were the wrong kind of dead children. Fortunately for them, they have a bumper crop of the right kind of dead children, politically speaking... and they are not about to let anyone forget those particular murders so long as it suits their purposes.
Witness Obama's Abuse of Dead Children:
Obama cites the careless, confusing gun control bills hastily enacted in New York, Colorado, Connecticut, and Maryland as models for Congress to follow. "We can't stand by and keep letting these tragedies happen," he said on Monday, as if strong resolve is all that's needed to stop mass shootings. "If there is just one thing we can do to keep one father from having to bury his child, isn't that worth fighting for?"
Contrary to Obama's implication, the question is not whether preventing the murder of children is desirable but whether the policies he supports would do that. Instead of explaining, for example, how background checks can thwart mass killers, who typically do not have disqualifying criminal or psychiatric records and who in any event can use guns purchased by someone else (as Lanza did), Obama simply assumes his plan will work and insinuates that anyone who opposes it does not care about children as much as he does.
Even as he claims to be troubled by a lack of empathy in the gun control debate, Obama refuses to entertain the possibility that his opponents, like him, are doing what they believe to be right.
There are two types of dead children - the politically convenient, and the politically inconvenient.
Remember this, when Obama, or Biden, or Reid, or Pelosi says that we need gun control "for the children!" and that "this is not about politics."
Remember this, and know that they are lying to you, and that it is all about politics.
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