President Obama had a moment to bring healing to the nation, but he chose to play politics instead, using the terrible massacre in Charleston to call for a crackdown on guns.
Everything with this administration is about politics. Everything.
Gov. Mike Huckabee told me he was disappointed with President Obama’s “grandstanding.”
“All the proposals this president has put forward on gun control would not have stopped this shooting,” he said.
According to the GOP presidential candidate, one thing might have stopped the tragedy: A pistol-packing church-goer.
“The one thing that would have at least ameliorated the horrible situation in Charleston would have been if somebody in that prayer meeting had a conceal carry or (if) there had been an off duty policeman somebody with the legal authority to carry a firearm and could have stopped the shooter," Huckabee said.
Our nation is wounded. And in these coming days, words and deeds matter.
For the sake of unity, I urge the White House to choose civility over rhetoric. We cannot allow people like President Obama to divide our nation. Nor can we allow politicians to score cheap political points on the graves of the innocent.
Now is the time for decency. And should our elected leaders be unable to muster such values, maybe they should just be quiet.
After all, silence is a virtue.
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