The Washington Post is brazenly and shamefully politicizing the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre by using the one year anniversary of the shooting as pretext to run a story about “gun violence”. In their eagerness to make a renewed push for unconstitutional infringement of the 2nd Amendment they have asked people to send them stories they can use as examples. Apparently “gun violence” is rare enough that the Washington Post, with its army of reporters and layers and layers of fact checkers can’t find these stories on their own; they have to rely on crowdsourcing.
What should be a time for private mourning and somber reflection has been made into an abjectly political event by a newspaper that is more interested in pushing a statist political agenda than treating the Sandy Hook victims and their families with the dignity and respect they deserve. It is sad and outrageous that this once respected institution would stoop so far as to use this somber anniversary as pretext to launch a political offensive. And yet, here they are, doing just that. After all, if they were interested in writing a balanced and objective piece would they not also have asked for examples of people using firearms to defend themselves and others from violence and death?
Perhaps second amendment supporters could make a statement to the WAPO by flooding their inboxes and phone lines with the stories of people across the nation in the past year who have relied on their 2nd Amendment rights to defend against the same kind of evil that lurked in the heart of Adam Lanza.