In advance of this morning’s weekly presidential tackle, which President Obama became over to one of the crucial mothers who lost her child in the Sandy Hook Basic School shooting, Rush Limbaugh went after the Democrats for “hiding behind” the Newtown folks and turning them into “human shields.”

“That is how all opposition is silenced,” Limbaugh mentioned on his radio convey. “This is the way it’s accomplished. which You could’t dare speak in regards to the difficulty now as a result of opposing Obama’s agenda is opposing these folks, is opposing these parents, is having no coronary heart.” He anticipated that Republicans would soften their dedication to gun rights as a result of otherwise they are going to be portrayed as being heartless.

“They’re seeking to flip the Newtown parents right into a dozen Cindy Sheehans in a method,” Limbaugh asserted, reviving a reputation hardly ever heard in political media for the reason that peak of the Iraq Struggle. “It’s what the Democrats do, other folks. They at all times try to conceal their agendas in the back of women and children, and, most of all, victims. So the Newtown parents are human shields, in a sense.”

Ultimately, Limbaugh summed up the Newtown oldsters’ position within the current debate as such: “to protect the Democrats from any criticism, and to shut it down. Pure and easy.”

Parents and family members of those killed at Sandy Hook Basic School remaining December were in Washington, D.C. this week as friends of the Obama administration to make their case to Congress on why they think new gun rules is required. Speaking throughout the weekly address launched this morning, Francine Wheeler, mother of 6-year-outdated Ben, said, “We now have to persuade the Senate to return collectively and cross commonsense gun accountability reforms in order to make our communities safer and stop more tragedies like the one we never idea would occur to us.”

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