Really, RW? You're going to complain about politicizing a tragedy?

There is no doubt that the deaths of 20 children in an elementary school in Connecticut is a deep, disturbing tragedy.

There is also no doubt that this country needs to have a serious and honest conversation about gun control.  As if we didn't need to have that conversation after Aurora, after Jovan Belcher, after Portland.

But some people -- specifically, the right wing in this country -- don't want to have that conversation.  Why?  Because they're afraid that stricter gun control laws might mean it will be more difficult to expand their own personal arsenals.  Which, apparently, they need to protect themselves from... other people with guns.  And now, they are accusing those of us on the left of politicizing the tragedy in Newtown to advance gun control.

Politicizing a tragedy to advance your own political goals?  When has the right wing ever done that?

“I'm outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi.  It's disgraceful that the Obama Administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.”

That was Mitt Romney, the former GOP Presidential candidate, on September 12, mere hours after the terrorist attack in Benghazi that killed four Americans.  But Romney wasn't attempting to use Benghazi for his own political gain, right?

"It took the president 14 days before he called the attack in Benghazi an act of terror" -- Mitt Romney, second Presidential debate

Oh, yeah.  I forgot about that one.  A full month after the tragedy in Benghazi, and until the end of the campaign, Romney and other Republicans were using Benghazi as a political issue in an attempt to tar President Obama's handling of foreign policy.  Oh, and it didn't even stop on Election Day.  After the election, John McCain and Lindsey Graham used the Benghazi attacks for their own political gain still, using them to torpedo President Obama's nomination of Susan Rice for Secretary of State.

Listen, right wing.  We know you love your guns, but when you've spent the last three months making the tragedy in Benghazi into a very loud political conversation, you have zero right to complain -- ZERO! -- when the left uses a tragedy much closer to home to begin questioning whether our gun laws are prudent.  Comprende?