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doran10
What is grandstanding about paying respects to those viciously gunned down by a deranged individual who took advantage of our toothless gun laws? If I had a loved one who died so needlessly, I'd be honored to have our President pay condolences and offer reasonable direction for the future.
maple10
You would offer up the body of your dead loved one as a soap box for a politician to pontificate from? You make me sick.
doran10
What you might regard as pontification, I, judging from the President's remarks in Newtown, CT and Charleston, SC as true eloquence--heartfelt sympathy for the families of those who died in senseless tragedies and imploring his fellow citizens to stand with him in finding ways to present these mass killings which continue to plague our nation. If you want to call a twice-elected President (by electoral AND popular vote) a politician, then do so, but remember that he is not seeking election or re-election but trying in his final years to a path of civility and less violence.
maple10
Take note that there have been more gun killings in 0bama's old stomping grounds of Chicago in the last month than there have been mass shootings all year yet he has been silent on them - perhaps because he can't cant make any political points from them.
Would you feel the same if it were 2007 and it was Bush that was coming to take advantage of the situation? I doubt it.
Would you feel the same if it were 2007 and it was Bush that was coming to take advantage of the situation? I doubt it.
doran10
Chicago has not been the site off a mass shooting, but it is a good example of guns getting into the hands of the wrong people. It's another reason. why the President is trying to guide us to stricter gun laws. Forget Bush. He was a tool of the NRA.