Gun-rights activists recoil at the practice of harnessing tragedy to promote a political agenda. To many of their opponents, there is no better moment to combat the gun violence than when the wounds are still fresh from the senseless deaths Friday morning of 20 kindergartners at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. The rampage that also killed six adults and ended with the death of the 20-year-old gunman.
Nothing is more powerful than a classroom of kindergarten kids getting killed by assault weapons, says Bob Edgar, a preacher and former Democratic congressman who is now the President and CEO of the liberal advocacy group Common Cause. Or, as a government employee who wandered over to the vigil from work put it: It helps that it was a bunch of white children in a school.
As the activists chanted, a few dozen members of the crowd raised flickering candles in the gathering darkness. Some brushed away tears, their lips quivering. Christmas lights festooning the tree under the White Houses front portico twinkled. Over the White House, the flag flew at half-mast. After the last speaker finished, before heading home, the protesters heeded the instructions of a pastor and hugged the person next to them.
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