"According to emails obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, first reported by The Baltimore Post, advisors to then-President Barack Obama immediately strategized how to exploit the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary school to push their gun control agenda. "Tap peoples [sic] emotions," Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel advised then-Education Secretary Arne Duncan on December 16, 2012, just two days after the massacre that left 26 dead. The victims' bodies were yet to be laid to rest.
The two discussed how they could exploit the tragedy to bring about their anti-gun agenda. "What are your thoughts?" Duncan asked Emanuel on an email with the subject line, "CT shooting."
"Go for a vote this week asap before it fades," replied Emanuel. "TaBradyples [sic] emotion. Make it simple assault weapons."
"Yup- thanks," replied the education secretary.
"When I did brady bill and assault weapons for Clinton we always made it simple. Criminals or war weapons," wrote back Emanuel.
Duncan then inquired about the so-called "gun show loophole" and other talking points to push on the public.
"Gun show loophole? Database? Cop-killer bullets? Too complicated?" he wrote.
"Cop killer maybe," answered Emanuel. "The other no."
"Got it," Duncan agreed."
One thing that we have learned from the tragic gun violence at schools is how Democrats come crashing through the gates to push their gun control agenda, and this email proves it. No doubt the subject needs to be discussed, but for they don't even wait until the victims have been mourned. One thing always missed is that with most of this violence it occurs on Democrat-controlled ground where there is already the toughest gun control laws on the books.
To have Emanuel on this is, of course, he is the mayor of Chicago which has more per capita violence than anywhere else in the nation. Another is that not all those affected by the violence are Democrats, nor necessarily of the same opinion of what should be done.
May 24, 2018
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