Of course, Clinton and Democratic leaders are calling for trigger locks on guns because they are planning to make this a major issue in this year's political campaigns. But that only makes the moral point stronger. So far not a single liberal has publicly dissented from the idea that gun control is the lesson to be drawn from this tragedy, let alone questioned the Democrats' sick exploitation of it for political ends. The inhabitants of this crack house do not observe laws. They live to break laws.
Child abuse is against the law.
All of that is against the law. Calling for a new law to require parents who stash their kids in crack houses to put trigger locks on the stolen guns lying around is a sick joke. But more than that, it is an exercise in the very denial that provides liberalism with a reason to exist. This last question applies with a slight twist to the shooting that occurred a few days later in Wilkinsburg, Penn., where a black racist named Ronald Taylor went on a rampage that took the lives of three people. The answer is they're too busy calling for a new gun law to add to the 20,000 already on the books, which the Justice Department refuses to enforce.