The liberal Democrats in congress, along with their winged monkeys, the lame stream media have certainly not let this crisis go to waste.
A hand gun was used so naturally everyone expected the usual clamoring for more controls on handguns. This being championed by Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) who reports she is "readying a bill" to restrict access to handguns. This was not unexpected as she rode to the attention of NY, and to the Congress, as a staunch gun control advocate after she detracted blame from the man who killed her husband and wounded her son and instead directed her attention at the illegally possessed handgun he used.
But then two more knee jerk reactionists leaped into the fray. One only radically dangerous, the other making an outright attempt to burn the Constitution.
The radically dangerous proposal is by Rep. Robert Brady (D-PA) who wants to make it a federal crime to "use words or symbols that may be perceived to be a threat" to a federal employee. In the wake of the shooting all of the media attention is pointing out Sarah Palin used a crosshairs symbol to mark the districts where the TEA Party Express was putting their resources but failed to point out the DCCC has used a similar strategy biannually for at least a decade, as did Kos who marked the districts of Democat congress members who did not vote for Pelosi as Speaker last week, including Mrs Giffford's district, with a bulls eye symbol.
And that is the part that makes his proposal radicaly dangerous (and why the media is not jumping all over him for it). It is bad enough that he is proposing a thought police type of control, where it is the perception of the act, not the act that is illegal. What makes it radically dangerous, and the Palin example demonstrates, is that identical acts can be percieved differently depending on the politics involved.
This proposal tramples a citizen' First Amendment rights by suppresing not only their right to express their displeasure to their elected Representatives, it also would also make free speech illegal if it could possibly be perceived as a threat.
But as eggregious as that asshat is to the First Amendment, Rep Clyburn (D-SC) is even a greater threat. Rep. Clyburn is proposing the ultimate suppression of the free media, a return of the paradoxically titles Fairness Doctrine. Because the leftard media, along with leftard politicians, has also picked up on this meme of "rhetoric of hate" which lead to this tragedy. And this aside from the fact that this person was not known to be politically active or in any way influenced by the so called hateful rhetoric that Clyburn seems content to p*ss on the Constitution in order to suppress.
This triumvirate of asshats is willing to capitalize on this tragedy to restrict our 2nd Amendment rights while strangling the 1st Amendment for citizens and the media.
Forget that their proposed actions will do precisely NOTHING to prevent the recurrance of this type of tragedy from recurring... the leftard Democrats will never let an opportunity to suppress liberty pass by, especially in the name of keeping us safe (or keeping the children safe... note the media's preoccupation with the 9 year old victim while virtually ignoring the other 5 people killed.)
The media, along with the leftards (and backed by non-leftard statists) in Congress are setting up an environemnt where people will gladly forfeit their liberties, wihtout telling them that nothing could have been done to predict or prevent this event, not will any law prevent it from occurring again.
