The mother of a 6-year-old boy killed in the Connecticut school shooting used the opportunity to fill in for President Barack Obama during the weekly radio and Internet address to make a personal plea from the White House for action to combat gun violence.
"Thousands of other families across the United States are also drowning in our grief," said Francine Wheeler, choking back tears in the address broadcast Saturday. "Please help us do something before our tragedy becomes your tragedy."
Ben Wheeler was among the 20 first-graders and six adults killed in the Dec. 14 attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.
Francine Wheeler was the first person to deliver the address other than Obama or Vice President Joe Biden since the two took office in 2009.
So if one person gets divorced, every marriage must end? If one person gets food poisoning, everyone must be fed tainted food? Or put another way, when one wacko does something wrong, all good people must be punished?
ReplyDeleteIf this woman had been raped would she be calling for the castration of all men?
ReplyDeleteIt is difficult, if not impossible, to respect someone who would use a tragedy like this for political gain.
This entire group of parents should be ashamed of their ownselves.
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