Who uses tragedies to push their own agendas?
Jul 24, 2012, 7:58 PM | Updated: 7:59 pm
Hours after 12 people were killed and 58 more were wounded in an Aurora, Colorado the debate quickly turned to an age old one: Gun control versus the right to carry firearms.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, appearing on a radio station soon after the tragedy said, “Soothing words are nice, but maybe it’s time the two people who want to be president of the United States stand up and tell us what they’re going to do about it, because this is obviously a problem across the country. And everybody always says, ‘Isn’t it tragic?'”
On the opposite end of the spectrum, former Arizona State Sen. Russell Pearce took to Facebook, writing, “Where were the men of flight 93??? Someone should have stopped this man.”
Pearce openly wished someone had brought their gun with them to the theater to stop this heinous act. It’s an understandable sentiment.
