This week, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden announced that President Obama may use executive action to achieve stricter gun control in America. If so, Obama's decision would represent an alarming approach reform in America, perhaps in light of Obama's realization that he cannot convince America - or Congress - to go along with the changes that he wants.
It is not like he has not tried; in a nationally-televised speech, Obama encouraged Americans to "take responsibility" and "do what needs to be done" to "protect what matters" - "the warmth of a small child's embrace" and "that fierce and boundless love we feel for them that takes us out of ourselves [...]"
For over ten minutes, Obama continued to expound on the importance of children in an attempt to justify the gun regulations he wants to put into place. By coincidence, as the broadcast continued, a scrolling headline appeared below the video, announcing the latest death toll in a drone strike ordered by Obama, civilian children and all. That's when it hit me: how could anyone take Obama seriously knowing that child after child is being murdered by the drone strikes that Obama has personally authorized? How can children really be so near and dear to him when he can write them off as collateral damage and never look back when gun politics are not at stake?
Apparently I was not the only one to raise these questions. I found the following video, which takes Obama's "for the children" speech and transposes its emotional appeal with an awareness of the drone strike victims. The result is a powerful must-see:
It is not like he has not tried; in a nationally-televised speech, Obama encouraged Americans to "take responsibility" and "do what needs to be done" to "protect what matters" - "the warmth of a small child's embrace" and "that fierce and boundless love we feel for them that takes us out of ourselves [...]"
For over ten minutes, Obama continued to expound on the importance of children in an attempt to justify the gun regulations he wants to put into place. By coincidence, as the broadcast continued, a scrolling headline appeared below the video, announcing the latest death toll in a drone strike ordered by Obama, civilian children and all. That's when it hit me: how could anyone take Obama seriously knowing that child after child is being murdered by the drone strikes that Obama has personally authorized? How can children really be so near and dear to him when he can write them off as collateral damage and never look back when gun politics are not at stake?
Apparently I was not the only one to raise these questions. I found the following video, which takes Obama's "for the children" speech and transposes its emotional appeal with an awareness of the drone strike victims. The result is a powerful must-see:
