“If there is even one thing we can do to protect our kids, don’t we have an obligation to try?” President Obama asked rhetorically yesterday in Hartford, Connecticut. “If there is even one step we can take to keep somebody from murdering dozens of innocents in the span of minutes, shouldn’t we be taking that step? If there is just one thing we can do to keep one father from having to bury his child, isn’t that worth fighting for?”
Obama made a powerful emotional case for stricter anti-gun legislation yesterday, a case that few Americans heard unless their minds were already made up on the issue. And if some undecided American had happened to hear Obama’s speech, odds are they would have come away thinking, “Absolutely. I would do anything to keep my kid from getting shot.”
