Politicians are Manipulating Grief to Infringe on 2nd Amendment Rights

Author and Pulitzer Prize winning former chief film critic of the Washington Post Stephen Hunter expressed on Monday his disgust for the sudden zeal with which politicians such as Dianne Feinstein are going after gun rights in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre.

“I’m very frightened, I’m very disturbed, I’m very upset. But most of all I’m disgusted, because this whole thing is in such grotesque taste. I mean, these people jump on the bodies of these dead children and they put on their little tutus of grief, and they step into the limelight and they spin and dance and pirouette and do pas de doux. And you understand, and I think most sensible people understand, that they’re loving every second of it. You can just feel it’s unseemly narcissism that’s underlying the whole idiotic thing,” Hunter said in an interview with Frank Gaffney on Secure Freedom Radio.

According to Hunter, despite the attention they receive, guns play only a minute role in mass shootings. Rather, he argues, more blame should be placed on cultural problems, a decreasing ability to incarcerate seriously disturbed persons, and the media’s obsession with profiling the shooters who do commit such atrocities.

However, in the immediate aftermath of a shooting, people are typically not yet able or willing to rationally examine these other contributing factors. Politicians recognize this, Hunter argues, and thus the strongest push for reactionary gun rights restrictions is made while grief is still fresh.

“You’ve got to act quickly in these things. You’ve got to act while the blood is still on the sidewalk… because sooner or later people cool down and they look clearly at what happened. ”

Listen to the interview at https://www.securefreedomradio.org