https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/01/17/obama-and-piers-morgan-standing-on-the-graves-of-sandy-hook/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 08:19:14 -0400<![CDATA[But that&#8217;s all the left&#8217;s got on issues ranging from gun control to the debt ceiling: appeals to emotion and to the supposed moral shortcomings of their opposition. It&#8217;s not just Piers Morgan doing this. It&#8217;s President Obama, who held a press conference on gun control flanked by small children who had written him letters about violence using guns, then trotted out the grief-stricken parents of one of the children who murdered at Sandy Hook. &#8220;[M]ost of all,&#8221; Obama intoned, &#8221; I think about how when it comes to protecting the most vulnerable among us, we must act now, for Grace, for the 25 other innocent children and devoted educators who had so much left to give; for the men and women in big cities and small towns who fall victims to senseless violence each and every day; for all the Americans who are counting on us to keep them safe from harm.&#8221;]]>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:00:23 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/01/17/obama-and-piers-morgan-standing-on-the-graves-of-sandy-hook-n99314