Obama’s Epic Failure to Curb Gun Violence

By Nat Hentoff, Nick Hentoff Nat Hentoff, Nick Hentoff

While President Obama is playing golf on Martha’s Vineyard, disinterred coffins are floating down the streets of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

More than 20,000 people have been evacuated from their homes and more than 11,000 have been left homeless by the worst flooding to hit the state since Hurricane Katrina.

CNN’s Don Lemon observed this week that while George W. Bush was criticized for only flying over the flood waters during Katrina’s aftermath, Obama couldn’t even be bothered to leave the golf course to comfort Americans in crisis.

Many have praised Obama’s cool detachment as a sign of steady leadership. But it is more appropriate to characterize it as simply an indifference to the suffering of others. The truth of the matter is that Obama has been blithely watching coffins float by his entire presidency.

That is certainly the case when it comes to the civilian deaths — which include many children — caused by U.S. drone strikes in a half-dozen foreign countries. But even more pronounced, and morbidly ironic, is Obama’s failure to fight the nationwide epidemic of inner-city gun violence epitomized by his own hometown of Chicago.

In December 2008, the president-elect was asked by an interviewer from the Chicago Tribune …Read the Rest

Source:: Cato Institute