DONTTTTTT CAREEEEEEEE

Never waste an opportunity to exploit a tragedy to make a political statement. I guess Reps Schneider and Schakowsky hope that emphasizing gun violence will get the minds of the American people off of the economy. Especially in the Black community which has fared very badly under this President.

By the by. Michigan vs Michigan State on ESPN tonight during the speech. Gotta keep my priorities straight. I will be interested in which prominent individual or individuals sitting in the audience the President will call out or insult. He's already done it to Supreme Court Justices and high ranking Congressional Leaders.

Nothing like using inauguration girl and Newtown to push an agenda. Pathetic.

Did the any of the Benghazi ambassador's surviving family get invited? didn't think so.

It would be nice if Schneider were to pay attention to what is going on in his district.

What color pants suit will Madam Secretary be wearing? Do you think she will attempt to cry, just to make sure we all think she has emotions?

This is pathetic. The people are to blame for re-electing him in for a second term. So lets just sit back & watch everything crumble. Oh wait, that's liberal work in action.

The poor girls death was a real tragedy. I had no idea that she lived in the 10th Congressional District until reading this article.

I know Barack didn't ask me for input, perhaps his best line for the State of the Union should be "What difference does it make?" With 23 million and growing unemployed, record food stamp and welfare recipients, massive debt growing by the trillions, contraction of GDP, what difference does it make?

At least Ted Nugent will be there to represent you -- as a guest of a representative from Texas, as state Nugent doesn't live in.

It's a tragedy this young girl died, but it's even more of a tragedy that the left is using her death to further their agenda to take away our rights. I guess they're still following Rahm's mantra--"never let a crisis go to waste."

It was a gang-banger who killed her--a gang-banger illegally in possession of a firearm. But that point somehow doesn't matter to the left. The left doesn't want to take the guns away from the criminals, they want to take the guns away from the law-abiding citizens. Why?

Then only the criminals will have guns.

What an absolutely pathetic group of people you are. Petty, small, and ignorant. Thank God you're in the very small minority.

McCloud, Sully and other like him on the left don't get it. Trying to get through to them is like beating a dead horse--they never understand. They accused President GW Bush of wanting to take away their rights, but don't see the similarities with Obama wanting to take our gun rights. They are the ones who are pathetic.

Preach it to the choir, hun.

I do so hope you continue to enjoy your bitterness. That's about all you've got. Now, I must get back to planning how I'm going to help Barack turn the U.S. into a communist Muslim state.

Don't be an idiot, NotWastingTime.

The last thing we need in this nation is our gov't taking away our right to bear arms--because they WON'T be able to take the guns away from all of the criminals. The person who killed the children at Newtown had mental problems and never should have had access to guns. The people who killed Hadiya were gang-bangers with illegal guns.

I am not a gang-banger nor do I have mental issues. I want to keep my right to own my firearms.

NOBODY is suggesting that the right to bear arms be taken away.

Let me give you guys a preliminary, the economy is in full recovery, we don't have a spending problem, those rich guys are evil so we need to increase revenues (aka raise taxes on everyone), still haven't heard from that guy Ben Gazzi, we need to invest more in food stamps, welfare and oh education (always a good one), and green energy (aka my friends who pay for all the elections).

Why are we even having this debate? According to you true patriots, Obama should have confiscated all the guns by now anyway, and you should be locked up in internment camps somewhere in the southwest. We should be under Sharia law, and Obama should now be the dictator/king of the new America. Older people should be being killed off, and our youth should have been drafted into something like the Brownshirts. Oh yeah- it never happened, did it? Hmm.

BTW is Congressman Schneider inviting the families of the other 500+ people that got murdered in the Liberal hellhole Chicago in the past 12 months.....?

Even most republicans believe in background checks. What right is being taken away by going through a check before getting a gun?

Off the subject, but this is classic-

From Conservapedia:

"A liberal is someone who favors censorship of Christianity as well as increased government spending, power, and control, as in ObamaCare. Increasingly, liberals side with the homosexual agenda, including supporting homosexual "marriage". Many liberals favor a welfare state where people receive endless entitlements without working. Liberals are often anti-Christian, or otherwise disagree with moral or social principles held by many American Christians. The liberal ideology has worsened over the years and degenerated into economically unsound views and intolerant ideology. Some liberals simply support, in knee-jerk fashion, the opposite of conservative principles without having any meaningful values of their own."

That is really really good!

But here's a more accurate definition:
(from Wikipedia, and minus the political agenda)

"Liberalism (from the Latin liberalis)[1] is a political philosophy or worldview founded on ideas of liberty and equality.[2] Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally they support ideas such as free and fair elections, civil rights, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, free trade, and private property.[3][4][5][6][7]"

Your definition is much funnier though!

Figure out this "War on Drugs" and you will eliminate 80% of all gun violence and murders. ...This should be the debate...Not the right to bear arms. When dealing heroin and cocaine is the family business, and going to jail is the equivalent of our kids going to college, you must do something about the issue before every major city turns into a battlefield with civilians getting in the way of bullets meant for rival gangs or crews. Exactly what Chicago has transformed into. Of course, calling the War on Drugs a war makes no sense as wars end. This national, and local, debacle only continues. Hundreds of billions wasted and countless innocent lives lost.

Agreed Frank. Once again it comes down to the failure of the social system to reach these kids before it's too late. Gangs aren't just about drugs. They offer a sense of belonging to youth who feel disconnected from society. The camaraderie brings the kids in, while the drugs either make them money if they sell, or put them in an alternate reality if they use. The ability to get guns so easily gives them a false sense of security. It's easy to forget that no matter how long they've been on the street or on their own, they're still kids. It's even easier for some people not only to forget they're kids, but to forget they are human.

I expect the typical reaction from those on the other side of the aisle. Go for it.

Sully, we agree. As long as the family business in these neighborhoods is drug dealing, and the value of the real estate they control, there will be this senseless gun violence. This is the public policy issue that must be addressed. But, our leaders would rather us focus on the guns because the public policy issue of the War on Drugs is just too damaging politically to anyone in office. No one wants to touch that issue as they are afraid of never getting reelected. So, our leaders treat us like the pawns we are and get us all crazy about guns. Of course, never trying to solve the true problem that will solve a majority of this gun violence issue.

Agree 95% Ed...Yet, I do not think that any problem is too complex to be solved. It will take leadership and political courage to find a solution. Of course, that is something lacking in our nation on both sides of the aisle. You are right, it cannot be solved. lol

Agree also that the upcoming "war on guns" will also prove a failure and just another thing that will divide us as a nation. The Chinese, along with the rest of the world, are laughing at us.

....and Obama is 'in touch'? LMAO!