Is she now representing the grieving parents of all Chicago area youth who have been killed decade after decade from street violence ? (Probably zero per cent with a legal gun permit.)

If not, it's smacks of opportunistic Obama drama.

@temp,

Can't be. The state of the union is about the economy. NBC even said so! :)

Hello folks,

Cue the sheeple!

Here’s the dirty little secret – for all their hysterical anti-gun rhetoric, the gun grabbers really don’t care about saving lives – what they care about is power. They use tragedies like Sandy Hook to pursue their real goal, which is to disarm American citizens. They attempt to disguise their real intents, and in some cases even give lip service to the second amendment. One especially comedic example is that of John Kerry, who during his unsuccessful 2004 presidential campaign went on a photo-op “hunting” trip, complete with camos in order to show he supports “hunters”. Understand – and this is a crucial point – the second amendment isn’t about “hunting.” It never has been. The fact is that the right to bear arms was put into place by the founders as a means of protecting the citizens from tyranny. That is why would-be governmental gun grabbers hate that pesky second amendment. An armed populace is the one thing standing between them and what they want – an omnipotent central government accountable to no one and free to impose its will on a defenseless public. Sound harsh? Consider the gun policies of Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse Tung and think again…

Reading the founders’ own writings about the right to bear arms makes it quite clear what their intent was when adding the second amendment. Chuck Baldwin wrote a recent column that addresses this issue and I will repeat here two quotes he used from Thomas Jefferson and George Washington:

“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence… From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to ensure peace, security, and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable… The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference. When firearms go, all goes.” – George Washington

P.S. "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." Benjamin Franklin

IF the Congressional halls were lined with victims families who son or daughter were shot by gang related ILLEGAL weapons, there would be no place for elected officials to sit.

Wait a minute....Mrs. Pelosi stated just yesterday that this administration was not going to "hurt" legal gun owners FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS. Guess Mrs. Pelosi was just sitting in for Mr. Biden.

I wonder if Mr. Obama is going to invite children of Illegal Aliens (Immigrants) to attend. Yep !!

I wonder if Mr. Obama is going to invite all those Americans who will be hammered with TAXES because of ObamaCare. Nope !!

tempusfugit1

Is she now representing the grieving parents of all Chicago area youth who have been killed decade after decade from street violence ? (Probably zero per cent with a legal gun permit.)

If not, it's smacks of opportunistic Obama drama.

First the wing nuts were hating on Obama for supposedly ignoring Hadiya Pendleton's death because he didn't want to acknowledge the gun violence in his home town Chicago (even though he mentioned Chicago's gun problem in his inaugural address). But then Michelle Obama went to Hadiya's funeral, and now Obama invites the girls mother to the State of the Union speech. So now Obama is being "opportunistic".

No matter what Obama does, the haters will keep adjusting their conspiracy theories to justify their hate. The hate is the only thing constant with them.

ldo

IF the Congressional halls were lined with victims families who son or daughter were shot by gang related ILLEGAL weapons, there would be no place for elected officials to sit.

How many times does it have to be pointed out to you pinheads that the illegal guns in cities like Chicago come primarily from Republican controlled states with lax gun laws where straw purchases are easy?

williamofrites-

Just because people express opinions that might counter your own doesn't mean they're 'haters' as you put it. If anything, your setting forth the expectation makes you the hater here.

Houston

Straw purchases are ILLEGAL and fall under the jurisdiction of the ATF! Why aren't they being prosecuted?

Houston!

Yeah your right. All the guns come from the Red States. It's all the Republicans fault. If we weren't getting these guns for them poor black kids, they would be home playing Monopoly or watching Cartoons. It's all a Grand plot to take down black people. They should charge a Republican with murder every time there is a gang killing.

WillOfRites...sorry i missed the count down...now a massive dose of hate...hate when moochell goes all pose'n at a funeral...she needs to get her groove on...help Barry spend his way thru the second term...get ya' groove on...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrVC5dm5fFc

WilliamOfRites

You must have realized that this is propaganda and that people would respond to it as such.

It is really shameful that the POTUS would further exploit this young girls tragic death for political gain, he's streaching this for every tear he can extract.

Houston

Do you have any facts to support your claim that the guns come from GOP states? I thought so.

" First the wing nuts were hating on Obama for supposedly ignoring Hadiya Pendleton's death because he didn't want to acknowledge the gun violence in his home town Chicago"

I don't recall any one "hating on Odumba" for that reason.

What does "hating on Odumba" mean anyways? Is it some kind of ghetto talk?

Girl's mom prostitutes herself as a prop for Obama's anti-gun rant during the SOTU address.

Count me in as a "Hater"....these SHAMELESS exploiters of tragedy never miss an opportunity to advance their agenda (Omama, the LameStream Media etc.) They all can go F**k themselves

I hope Mrs. Obama does not show up for the State of the Union speech dressed like this:

• http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/photos/kidschoice.asp

Maybe the outfit came from a Houston "straw purchase".

Is that Flip Wilson in drag? Geraldine? I used to laugh my ass off at him.

slodon

Straw purchases are ILLEGAL and fall under the jurisdiction of the ATF! Why aren't they being prosecuted?

Straw purchases aren't illegal until the purchaser sells the guns to someone who's not supposed to have them. Only a pinhead like you could have difficulty understanding that.

Deerhunterbow1

Yeah your right. All the guns come from the Red States

And where do you think the guns come from? The gun fairy? The New York police department says most of the guns used in crimes that they trace come through what they call the "Iron Pipeline", which starts in Southern states controlled by Republicans. But what do police know compared to gun nuts blathering on a web page?

Let's not use this young lady's senseless murder to further political view.... that the VP himself said would not change anything......

Evil lives in the heart of man.... only God can change the heart of man.......

She is there because when he brings up the topic of gun control the camera will focus on her and Obama will mention her. Watch and see.

MORE PROPOGANDA to keep Mr. Wizard of loserland behind a curtain of failure. First, a failing economy because of a hurricane, then a blizzard and now we have gun control issues.....(While Rome Burns)

JohnnyOnTheSpot-3794903

Houston

Do you have any facts to support your claim that the guns come from GOP states? I thought so.

Here you go, not that facts would have any effect on a bigoted moron like you:

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/virginia-repeal-one-handgun-a-month-law-bad-news-new-york-article-1.1030897

The State of Virginia’s repeal of a law limiting handgun sales to one weapon per buyer per month is sheer , bloody madness. And very bad news for New York.

Virginia is already the single biggest supplier of guns used by criminals in the city. Up the so-called Iron Pipeline, otherwise known as Interstate 95, gunrunners transport illegal firearms into the five boroughs, selling them in dark alleys and out of the backs of vans, to wreak death and destruction on the populace.

Houston! Explain to me then why the surrounding states that allegedly supply these guns, don't have as high or even higher rates of gun crime than $hitcago? I'm awaiting you well thought out explanation.

As for Obama trotting out this poor woman to make his vain argument for banning some guns, he has NO shame. If he really, really, I mean really cared about the "children", he would vow to make the leaders and members of the (insert various gang names here) extinct organizations.

Yep, the haters jumped right in, William.

"Just because people express opinions that might counter your own doesn't mean they're 'haters' as you put it."

It's when those opinions are based on no facts whatsoever, and include only lies and name calling, that the posters are considered haters. They may think that they are posting an "opinion", but any rational human being will see the hate that is so thinly veiled.

why the flip is this news; no news coverage about all the others; oh ol'lady 'bama be's dere!

hardtostarboard

Houston! Explain to me then why the surrounding states that allegedly supply these guns, don't have as high or even higher rates of gun crime than $hitcago? I'm awaiting you well thought out explanation.

Why do I have to explain things to pinheads who can't understand that gun laws at the local level don't work very well if criminals can just buy their guns in surrounding states and bring them into cities with strict gun laws? Gun crime rates are high in southern states with big cities with high concentrations of poor people like New Orleans. The problem in Chicago may be the worst, and the reasons are complicated, which of course makes the problem way to hard for a gun nut to thing about without smoke coming out of his ears.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/chicago-bleeds-article-1.1259253?pgno=2

Chicago must zero in on exactly where the breakdown is happening. If the cop on the beat is vigilant toward guns, what’s happening then? Is there a lack of desire to prosecute such crimes by prosecutors who are stretched thin? Or do prosecutors not quite trust many of the cases brought by police? And are judges looking the other way?

There is no real consensus, though it is crystal clear that the bad guys know the risk of bringing illegal guns into Chicago falls short of onerous, unlike in New York.

What is an often-articulated claim of Chicago’s comparative complexity comes from Patrick Fitzgerald, a Brooklyn native and renowned federal prosecutor who just ended a 10-year run as U.S. Attorney for the Chicago-based Northern District of Illinois.

He also prosecuted Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and 11 others in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and, as a Justice Department special counsel, prosecuted Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, Scooter Libby, for perjury.

Fitzgerald subscribes to the belief that Chicago’s more numerous and deeply entrenched multi-generational gangs — said to number more than 100,000 members by credible estimates — play a role.

At minimum, he contends, they aggravate the problem when combined with drugs, too many guns, the lack of tough mandatory minimum sentences and, perhaps, less-demanding judges.

He has little sympathy for reflexive National Rifle Association responses to Chicago’s travail, namely that it somehow shows that gun control doesn’t work or that mere enforcement of existing laws is the solution.

“You can’t take seriously people who don’t want to know where the guns come from,” Fitzgerald, who is now in private practice, told me.

WilliamOfRites

Cue the haters in 3, 2, 1...........

Predictable, aren't they?

Hadiya's mother to attend State of the Union

Who cares. What BS from the White House and what cheap theatrics!!! Shame on you liberal ass-holes.

If that were my kid, I would be blaming the White House for allowing gangs to exist.

Then you would have to go back to previous administrations for that.

Houston! quotes an opinion piece from the NYdailynews. You go , girl!

Well hush my mouth!!

it comes down to statistics vs fear based propaganda.

Wow... I didn't even have to cue the idiots... they posted first themselves!

I feel Trayvon part 2 coming on. How long will it be before it comes out that this "majorette" was in a gang and dealing drugs, rather than being "mistaken" for a drug dealer by a rival gang. Gangs don't have much going for them, but one thing they are pretty good at is spotting other gang members and drug dealers. She was "slinging" on the wrong street and got the standard drug-dealer reply: a bullet. By the time this all comes out, of course, she will already be a saint with her picture on every black church bulletin board and have a gun-control law named after her. The truth does not interest politicians, and increasingly seems to not interest "journalists" either. Let the circus begin. Again...

Houston

The source you referenced not a news item but a biased opinion of the writer. He points out that in 2010, 372 of the guns that were used in crimes came from Virgina. That's a pretty small number considering the number of gun crimes in NY every year.

Your initial claim was that the guns used in Chicago crimes came from out of state as straw purchases, that is your statement where I was looking for your source.

Amen brother, amen.

MORE SHAMELESS LIBERAL/PROGRESSIVE EXLOITATION TO PROMOTE THEIR AGENDA!!!!!!

It's a wonder they didn't delay the burial of her daughter, Hadiya Pendleton, so they could have it tomorrow for more sensationalism.

You would think Barrack Hussein or Moochelle would invite Bill Stevens to the SOTU speech. He is the father of one of the surviving Sandy Hook students who supports gun ownership and said that his daughter's friend's little sister was one of the children that was murdered because, "when 911 and 'lock down' were not enough to protect her from an evil person, not protect her from an 'assault rifle' or some type of an inanimate object, but from an evil person."

Of course the limp-wristed Libbies will never allow a fair or balanced debate. Their minds are already made up.

You would think Barrack Hussein would invite the wife and children of murdered Navy Seal Chris Kyle who was the most lethal sniper in history.

Oh wait, Kyle was killed by a mentally unstable individual, we wouldn't want to expose that as probably the most important cause of gun related homicides. This wouldn't sensationalize the Liberal/Progressive propaganda that guns run around and murder people and THEN jump into the hands of some innocent human. Obviously this would require banning these "rogue" guns that have a mind of their own and deceivingly implicate innocent normal people.

Just think, Barrack Hussein could exploit his faux concern for our servicemen, or should I say "corpse-men". He could exploit the gun that first shot Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield and then hopped into the hands of Eddie Ray Routh to appear that the gun didn't do this itself.

Rouths mental health problem, PTSD, would never be implicated as a major contributor to gun violence. That might actually help fix the problem.

Liberals don't want to fix this problem. They simply want more control of the American people. Of course this doesn't matter to the Libbies and the unwashed masses, as they lose more Freedoms for the sake of some mythical safety.

NBC:

Beating the steady drumbeat of anti-gun 'news'.

NBC doesn't care how people die unless it's with a gun.

For these myopic liberals, banning guns means Utopia.

LOL... more liberal make-believe:

"First the wing nuts were hating on Obama for supposedly ignoring Hadiya Pendleton's..." I doubt anyone one the right cared if he ignored ONE child's death as compared to the thousands that die a year for all reasone.

Just like a libby left, make up your own facts to support your feable arguments.

Even this is a problem of gun violence, Chicago already has the most tough gun ban policies. So is not more laws we need , this is a problem of delinquency and delinquents do not care about laws. The problem are not the gun, is the people, the culture of violence, single parents, domestic violence, alcoholism, drug addiction.Obama is looking for the wrong answer to gun violence coming from delinquents.

I wonder if Obama will invite the parents of the Border Agent killed for Fast and Furious.

@oskar and the rest of you bigots on here:

If you were half as smart as you all act, then you would know that for the populace New Orleans has a higher shooting rate than Chicago has. But hey it's not as fun to run your face and put down the President because he didn't live in the big easy. And it still go's to show that Romney was right about the 47% he just forgot to say they were un washed and uneducated is all. But hey he did get the bigot part right.

rufdik

What's the difference? N.O. is still blacks killing blacks.

Obama will use another tragedy to promote his attempt to take away our 2nd amendment rights. Our prayer to this mom in the loss of her child.

Never in history have we been so vulnerable to a government that seeks to remove the amendment which protects the people from the intrusion of the very same government.

@kkwilson

Yeah well - that all started with the Patriot Act, and WHO created that hmm?

Obama is the consumate politician... using a little girl's death from gang member's guns to further an agenda against 85 million law abiding (and tax paying) legal gun owners. One could say that Barry is a master baiter, manipulating the old liberal media to do his bidding! But as a leader he's still a failure.....

Why can't we have a President that focus's on the real problems like the rise of gang warfare in cities like Chicago and Detroit, balancing the budget, dealing with Iran and N. Korea's nuclear threat, protecting our Embassy's, stemming the flow of illegal immigrants across our southern border, etc. He's great and dividing the country, but lousy at leading the country!

If you think anyone should die for Skittles you are in need of therapy!!

Grieving mother on one side, Ted Nugent, draft dodger, on the other. Get your popcorn.

William, Trying to make the point that politicians trot out the most sympathetic looking person to make their points, valid or not; "...and THIS is the person most affected by blah blah blah..." when in reality "reform" means higher taxes or fewer rights for law abiding citizens.

@Pedestrian,

Don't forget to mention how he evaded the draft. From an article he gave in High Times: "Got my physical notice 30 days prior to,” Nugent said. “Well, on that day I ceased cleansing my body. No more brushing my teeth, no more washing my hair, no baths, no soap, no water. Thirty days of debris build. I stopped shavin’ and I was 18, had a little scraggly beard, really looked like a hippie…Then two weeks before, I stopped eating any food with nutritional value…Then a week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. poop, piss the whole shot. My pants got crusted up.”

What an excellent proponent of the American Exceptionalism! *sarcasm*

I know, Molly. Disgusting that this lowlife attention whore is who they would align with against the democratically elected President, isn't it. He sat in his own sh1t in order to avoid service. Repulsive.

nugent must have learned that from clinton

Pedestrian,

And don't forget about how he adopted his girlfriend as his daughter so he could become her legal guardian and marry her.

He's a class act.

But, what astounds me is that he's managed to raise himself up as some "real American." And he threatened the president!

He's a very creepy individual.

"She must be a better anti-gun poster child for the President than Trayvon. How does that work for you William?"

Travon is only on moth balls, they will trot the new edition next month when the trial starts.

Molly

You do realize that Nugent said that in jest don't you.. You know *sarcasm*.

So, what he said in 1977 was a lie, but he's telling the truth now? That seems sketchy to me. It's more likely that he told the truth then, and has since decided to roll it back as a "joke," now that he's making money being a pro-gun poster boy.

Ted Nugent may have done all that during his liberal phase. A lot of people I know were like that in the 60's and early 70's. I was a card carrying member of the ACLU. Guess what , we grew up.

I wonder if the mother and child were white if they would be getting this much attention from the President.

Did any of the white mothers from Sandy Hook get that same attention? I think not,how many whites has the Dictator stood up for? They have both shown their contempt for the whites alot.If they cared about whites the four men in bengazi would be alive.You ovomit lovers will not be safe from him either when he gets done with his take over,and i hope you all rot in hell with him!

Oh and by the way,before you call me racist,i detest his white side just as much as his black side!

Damn, I must have missed that in the article on this girl... can someone point on the paragraph about Uncle Ted??

Actually, Gail, yes - many of the families from Sandy Hook were invited to the inauguration events, and testified to congress too. If you weren't so blinded by your hate, you might actually pay attention to facts.

Yep, just count the "I", "My", "Our", "We", "Them", and "Republicans" in his speech. You could add "economy" or "jobs" but these issues would probably only be referenced once or twice (inauguration speech).

Meanwhile, all the points he will try to make will be supported by someone in the audience: Gun vicitim's families, Illeal Alien (Immigrant) children, teachers, firefighters, and maybe even a broken bridge.

"There is too much violence in this country and our best and brightest are dying in the streets." - Cue camera to Hadiya's Mom.

Anybody want to bet against that one?

Can't parade the President's children around as political pawns..... yet anyone else's children are acceptable with this administration..... Shame, shame, Barry........

Nobamas way...roll out the victims, now were supposed to prostrate ourselves...f-ck him and the government taxi he rides and fly's in...

Why were the parents of Antonio Fenner not invited? He was shot down in Chicago on January 29, and was 16. I guess his story, whatever it was, just did not fit the photo-op requirements.

I knew the liberals think obama can walk on water !

what I didn't know was he was going to bring the little girl back to life at the state of the union !

this guy is amazing !

Did he really say that "best and brightest" thing? Aren't most of the kids who "are dying in the streets" ghetto kids with no future anyway? It's unfortunate they get killed, but let's not pretend it's happening in places where people who matter live. If your parents don't have the sense to get their kids out of a hell-hole inner-city zoo, then what are the chances they will inspire those kids to be anything but another generation of aimless hoodlums and parasitic breeders? Sure there will be a Colombine or a Sandy Hook every now and then, we've got over 300 million people here. In a group that big there will always be aberrations. Look at the overall numbers, though. Most of the people who get shot down in the streets are no great loss, drug dealers and/or gangster thugs. Good riddance.

Though my question was obviously rhetorical, it was also semi-serious. I thought that was a pretty insightful prediction you made, mpa, and I am slightly interested in whether it was correct, though not interested enough to sit through an hour of our Dear Leader's babbling. So, did he go for that cheap shot or not?

Your comments are ALWAYS bitter, racist, conjecture and most important irrelevant!!!!

What about my comment is racist? How is it bitter? Please explain instead of trolling. The things that I have stated are facts reported by WGN here in Chicago. Where are these facts in the broader media? Why isn't NBC news reporting this information?

Oh, and if my comments (all TWO OF THEM THAT I'VE POSTED ON NEWSVINE) are always racist. Perhaps you'd like to point out what other things I've posted that offend you?

Hello Dan, this is the type comment you get from the Newsvine Shills, they are paid to counter facts when it goes against the agenda their corporate and government masters are ordered to propagate.

Every one knows that Obama is going after the second amendment and will use whatever prop he can to try and disarm the nation. It aint going to happen! It's all about building a case to attack our constitutional rights.

Why don't the the presstitutes report all the murders we perpetrate on other countries and where are the progressives regarding the hundreds of thousands of children killed by our country in our name?

Consider the Sandy Hook school shooting. This shooting serves as an excuse for anti gun lobbyists to express their hatred of guns and the NRA and to advance their gun control agenda. Few if any of those hyperventilating over the tragedy know any of the parents of the murdered children. They have shown no similar response to the US government’s murder of countless thousands of Muslim children. The Clinton regime alone killed 500,000 Iraqi children with illegal sanctions, and Clinton’s immoral secretary of state Madeleine Albright, a feminist hero, said that she thought the sanctions were worth the cost of one half million dead Iraqi children. The Bush regime is just as guilty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4PgpbQfxgo

Suddenly, 20 US children become of massive importance to “progressives.” Why? Because the deaths foster their agenda–gun control in the US.

When I hear people talk about “gun violence,” I wonder what has happened to language. A gun is an inanimate object. An inanimate object cannot cause violence. Humans cause violence. The relevant question is: why do humans cause violence? This obvious question seldom gets asked. Instead, inanimate objects are blamed for the actions of humans.

Proclaiming someone a racist because they don't have a legitimate comment to make is normal on here. You will get used it in time.

They are just trying to intimidate you and shame you into silence.

Timothy Mc Veigh killed 19 children under the age of 6 and you don't hear any squawking about fertilizer, diesel, or truck rentals. Anti-gun is the power grab agenda of the left.

Dan -Since you are a "newby," I want to reinforce the advice you have been given above.

Expect any and all insults from being a racist to having your sanity/compassion/intellect/forttude smeared.

If you do not parrot the NBC/Obama party line, you will be villified and debased. Not that the fewer, but still intellectually challenged, conservative party hacks are much better.

One thing you will not be here is irrelevant. Some of us want to hear differing views and opinions. Please do not sink to the level of your attackers and fall into the habit of slurs, obscenities and bile.

Welcome.

@Dan, please site the source that she was hanging out with known gang members?! Are you saying that she deserved to be killed because of who she was with?

I contend that some people hang out with known pedophiles and rapists regularly. If they are killed would that be "ok" too? A child is dead through no fault of her own. You would have to be heartless to rationalize that she had it coming.

And where is it written that the president wants to disarm the public? Cite the Source! And not just an article that someone posted online.

Not bitter or racist, just sick of the skunk always standing "behind" the victims...

Realistic Woman,

any source on the net will be the result of somebody's posting. So what source do you want?

Also, since you're realistic, do you give head?

I know I am going to get slammed for this, but I wonder if Michelle would have attended the funeral of a white kid that got shot or if they would have invited the white kid's mother to the Union address.

For those who think I'm prejudiced, please believe me I'm not. For one thing, I voted for Obama and I'm still mostly glad I did. Also, I was an Army brat and everyone is the same regardless of the color of their skin. My best friend in 3rd grade was a black kid, and if you had asked me what the difference was between us, I would have said that's a silly question -- he's a boy and I'm a girl. I don't understand racial prejudice, but as I've gotten older I've learned about reverse prejudice and I don't understand it either. It all just made me wonder...

@Lisa, the fact that the race of this kid made you question the first lady's attendance says that you are not as opened minded as you think you are. Wonder about that.

Realistic woman

So why did she not attend New Town with 20 kids dead but she is all up into Chicago (black). She couldn't leave Hawaii with 20 dead but she can attend one funeral in Chicago & then fly this woman to DC? Racist 100% no question.

Her husband, you know the president of the United States, attended New Town. Was that not enough for you? Plus, she was invited to Hadiya's funeral. I'm not going to stoop to your level. There's nothing racist about this unless, you just want to see it that way. No question.

mpa..actually Gabby is planning to be there.

Do you think he will have that mother there who shot the intruder while she hid in the attic with her children?

CynicaL? Observant.

I genuflect to neither party.

Get me a tissue.

The bulldog (michele) must really be proud of the united stated now....

What about the 12 year old white girl that was sitting on her porch in Chicago on a Sunday afternoon shot by a young black guy?

If he did, you would find fault with that too.

But we were never given a chance to know, were we? They would never be invited because they are all white.

Posing hypothetical scenarios does not make your point valid. It didn't happen, so you don't know what would have happened.

And who is paying for her trip?

You really need to wonder?

If so then the US education system really is a disaster!

The US Department of Education is about to be infiltrated by folks associated with the Muslim Brotherhood. The process is underway. OH! That isn't being talked about either. *smiles*

David, the "mothers" of the 114,000 unborn children that are aborted every month in America aren't grieving. They exercised their right to a safe and legal abortion under the law.

PM, probably the same people that are paying for Ted Nugent to be there... oh wait, that would probably be the NRA lobby, wouldn't it.

That's pretty clever there, Pedestrian. I'm guessing Ted Nugent could pay his own way.

Are you one of those Pavlovian Dems that believe the NRA, FOX News, Rush Limbaugh and Ted Nugent are the root cause of all ills in our society? Look up "indoctrination."

That room is going to get pretty crowded with all the victims and their families being invited...wonder if there'll be any "survivors" who USED a gun to stay alive....maybe, but probably out in the parkin lot...

No, mpa, I'm not one of your mythical dems. I grew up in a shooting household, and I was educated to recognize a lie - THAT'S why I think that today's NRA lobbyists, Fox, Rush and Ted are working to drive a wedge between Americans. "Divided we fall" -- exactly what they'd prefer.

Please stop equating liberals with gun control. I am a liberal. I own several guns. I will not give them up until...well, you all know what Charlton Heston said. It frosts my cookies that you paint us all with the same brush.

Lisa-2564810

I'm sorry that we do & we should know better. 40% of gun owners are democrats & 43% of gun owners are women. Some of the hard Left want to paint the picture that all gun owners are Republican gun nuts. They don't realize that they are only turning away part of their own base. They think everything is either Blue or Red.

Lisa -

You are why I differentiate between Democrats/liberals and "progressives." The definitions have been clouded in recent years with the PC movement and "branding" issues.

Well Lisa....you libs paint us with the same type brush, so get used to it.

CoyoteHunter- speak for yourself. You, personally, have no idea how I paint my pictures of society so don't assume to tell others how I do. And thanks DeerHunter and mpa.

No problem, Lisa. I will make a mental note and look forward to having an adult and virulence-free discussion in the future.

Have a great evening.

Lisa-2564810 - from one Lisa to another Lisa--I can identify with what you are saying --I'm liberal in some ways, conservative in others, and also own firearms. It also fries my bacon to see people stereotyping and painting with the same brush. The picture I get in my head is this: the people of this nation are allowing themselves to become polarized, to be pitted against each other. And I think it has been going on for a long time. I believe that our 2 party system is broken--for decades now, both parties have been 'donated' to by major corporations--there are even major corporations that donate to both parties simultaneously just to have a foot in no matter who wins. All the name calling that We the People do, goes on on both sides and is disheartening--and it doesn't achieve anything constructive, either. I believe that balance of power is key to freedom, and that balance of power needs to be on all fronts.

Its not just our government. NBC is supposed to be doing stories all this week of victims of gun violence to push the Lefts agenda.

Its bad enough that they were victims and now the Left is victimizing the families of the victims to use as Pawns to support their agenda.

This is just America, 2013.

Seems that 51% of those who vote want it this way. Those who don't vote don't seem to mind.

We've gotten used to the real intentions of our politicians....

Beacuse Obama and Moochelle don't have them. All they have is a thirst for power and a willingness to stoop to any level to buy-off people or use them in order to obtain it.

Wow, that makes them so unlike every other politician in Washington...said no one ever.

a thirst for power

I would say that being the first black family in the white house that that thirst has clearly been quenched.

@Carlyn, for some reason people love to be negative and hateful. The internet just gave them the courage to be more vocal about it.

Obama is working feverishly to give Mexican drug gangs full US citizenship

And he is almost there...

Yep..and homeland security just purchased over 2 million rounds of .223, and .40 cal. ammo...wonder where thats going? and used on whom...

Everyone's childs death is the most tragic death in United States history...

Puh-leaze!!

Yeah, she could tell us how robust our economy is. Have you read the other article on this site which indicates that the SOTU is going to be ALL about the economy?

Frank...can't fix stupid...wow you won this round...

Hadiya was killed by Gang activity in Chicago.

Whats her mother going to do make a plea to all the criminals and gang bangers to give up their Illegal guns?

Obama is probably doubling her monthly food stamp allotment and giving here an extra 200 minutes on her Obamaphone in exchange for her appearance!

canespider, The President of the United States asks for your presence,you go. Cleopatra is still in shock as any parent would be. I'm surprised Shatira Wilks wasn't asked, she is the cousin and spokesperson for the family during this unbearable time. Ms Wilks was the one making statements and was quoted during Hadiya's Funeral. Do you think Ms Pendleton is there to speak or as a symbol for gun violence? Because if she or Ms. Wilks were to speak,they might ask Barack Obama why are you getting involved at this late date? Why didn't you do something as a community organizer in Chicago when you had the chance? Had you, Hadiya would still be alive. Why didn't you make the gun violence problem clear with Rahm Emanual when you endorsed him as the right guy for mayor? And finally where are you going to be months from now?

Shhhh. We all know Obama and the left blew it with this.

This didn't have to be a divisive issue. No one likes gun violence and no one wants guns in the hands of criminals, mentally ill, drug addicts etc. Most Americans would not have a problem with making sure the current gun laws we have were actually being enforced, seeing where the holes are in the background check system and plugging them etc. If they had come out with reasonable proposals instead of all the extremist hyperbole demanding that the Second Amendment be repealed, gun Registration, confiscate all guns, etc. maybe things would have been different and something could have been done that would have a real effect on gun violence.

Instead of using it as an issue to bring the country together they manged to immediately start attacking legal gun ownership, Law abiding citizens, attacking the Second Amendment, trying to limit the type of guns that can be owned legally and magazine capacity as if guns are the problem and not Mental health issues, criminals, drugs, etc.

David -

I mostly agree. Jumping on reinstating the AWB was a stupid move from a group that is usually very effective with their propaganda techniques.

I guess you gotta go with Joe when you have appointed him to head up the solution. I'll bet Barry and crew were livid when Joe announced that the ban wouldnn't solve the problem.

You know that we are not permitted to discuss this (root cause) issue under PC rules. For shame...