Politicians and their children are a class apart.

Politicians and their children are a class apart.

I normally wouldn’t plan on doing two blogs in a row on the same topic, but I was doing my usual scan of the day’s news stories, and ran across the story about Gov. Christie’s comments which I am using as the root for this blog.

The minute I saw it I wrote myself the following note: “Don’t be dragging people’s children into this, it’s wrong” he says, yet the entire issue, when using the context of Sandy Hook, is ABOUT people’s children.  Don’t drag the Sandy Hook children into this and you have no issue to discuss.

When I got home, the friend who had posted the initial link about the Morning Joe/NRA clip, included the Christie story into her responses.  So I wrote the below response on her Facebook:

Christie said “don’t drag people’s children into this, its wrong.” but if you take everyone’s children out of it, i.e. the children of Sandy Hook, you take out the main impetus of the gun control movement in this case. In the original link they said it is “pornography” to bring a politician’s child into it. I want to know why their children are not to be the subject of debate, when mine are. But they are saying that isn’t a subject for debate. 

They are discussing writing laws that will affect me and my children, but not they and their children. The law is becoming selective, and this is a significant development in our nation’s jurisprudence. If these laws really work the way they are telling us they should, they they shouldn’t need police and armed guards at their schools, but I see no indication that they have any intent of changing that particular fact about their schools, which makes me question whether they really believe the laws will have the effect that they say they are for.

They aren’t putting their money where their mouth is. Not unusual for politicians. And they can blather like Christie did about how their children have no choice in the matter, but I still don’t see why that means they should be a special case. They can play on people’s sentiments all they want, but when you remove the sentiment and look at the facts he’s making a claim that they are a special class different from the rest of us. And they are getting people to buy into it by setting false parameters for the public forum.

I think this whole portion of the gun debate is making it more and more obvious that the true divide in the nation isn’t between the rich and poor (which is what the politicians have been trying to make us believe), but between the politicians and the citizenry.  Or it would make it obvious, if we were allowed to actually talk about it — which is why they are trying to limit the scope of any debate to exclude the fact.