How the GOP Promoted Gun Madness
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/12/16/how-the-gop-promoted-gun-madness/
New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof offers a typical column reacting to the massacre of 20 school children in Newtown, Connecticut. He calls on politicians to show courage in standing up to the National Rifle Association, but he doesnt seem to have the courage himself to identify the key political culprits in a three-decade-long pandering to the NRAs clout.
Theres a reason for that. The vast majority of the politicians who have served as handmaidens to the NRAs war on commonsense gun control are Republicans, including such icons as Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. And it is routine for mainstream pundits, like Kristof, to avoid sounding partisan.
So, it makes lots of career sense to wring ones hands over the horrifying image of a deranged gunman slaughtering first-graders in their classroom and then spread the blame across the political spectrum while not pointing fingers at the politicians who have most enabled this sickening madness to continue.
After all, Reagan and Bush-41 are held in high esteem across Official Washington. MSNBCs Chris Matthews has hailed Reagan as one of the all-time greats, and Bush-41 supposedly represents the good old days of Republican moderation.
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