Hurry! The little people have a “short memory”!

In a WaPo article about the horrendous gun control legislation now in the works, a discussion of the importance of timing reveals the blatant opportunism at work.

Timing is imperative

Obama’s advisers have calculated that the longer they wait, the more distance there is from the Newtown massacre and the greater the risk that the bipartisan political will to tackle gun violence will dissipate.

“This is not something that I will be putting off,” Obama said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in an interview broadcast last Sunday.

At the White House meeting, Stanek said, “the vice president indicated that there was a very short timeline for him to get back to the president with his recommendations because the American public has a short memory.”

How condescending can they get? Actually, I think the American public has quite a long memory. They remember the ban on so-called “assault weapons,” and they remember that there is a constant push to disarm them. The fact that guns are selling like never before and dealers can’t keep inventory on their shelves shows that the public has a long memory. What I think the White House means is not that memories fade or the memory span is short, but that emotions tend to be dampened over time by realism. And that’s a good thing, because emotional thinking tends to be irrational. Anyway, what they really think but cannot say is that they want to capitalize on the emotions generated by the Newtown shooting to do what they have wanted to do all along, and want an irrational public.

But to use the phrase “short memory” is the height of manipulative demagoguery, and extremely condescending.

The problem is that gun grabbers are chafing at the bit like a spoiled child, screaming “I WANT MY GUN CONTROL RIGHT NOW!”

Already, three weeks after the Newtown shooting, gun-control advocates are growing impatient with a legislative process that is just beginning.

“As we get involved in these ad nauseam debates over the Second Amendment, our children are still at risk,” said Jon Adler, national president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association. “Debating is not the action verb we need to protect our children.”

Oh, really? This Adler clown (one of the “key law enforcement leaders” described in the piece) must think we don’t live in a democracy.

How dare we debate over whether our Second Amendment freedoms should be infringed?

Sheesh. What I’d like to know is how dare this hack claim that he speaks for law enforcement?

Once again, this is not about the children, and only a pathetic dupe would think it is.