Groucho Marx On Why It Is Never A Good Time To Talk About Gun Control

The malevolent orange shit gibbon immediately seized upon the truck attack by an immigrant from Uzbekistan to bash Democrats, condemn immigration policies and call for shipping the perpetrator off to Guantanamo and then, on second thought, urge that he be given the death penalty "fast."  The contrast with the measured thoughts and prayers response to the Las Vegas shooting or the "very fine people on both sides" response to the Neo-Nazi car attack in Charlottesville couldn't be more black and white (so to speak).

When Democrats want to discuss solutions to gun violence after mass shootings (by white U.S. citizens), Republicans argue that we shouldn't politicize tragedy.  As Trump's press secretary put it after Las Vegas:  “There’s a time and place for a political debate, but now is the time to unite as a country."  A month has now passed, but it is still not time to talk about gun control. 

The absurdity is captured perfectly by the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup:

Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho):  And now members of the cabinet, we'll take up old business.
Cabinet Member: I wish to discuss [gun violence and gun control].
Firefly: Sit down, that's new business. [pause] No old business? Very well, we'll take up new business.
Cabinet Member: Now about [gun violence and gun control]
Firefly: Too late, that's old business already. Sit down.

Trump has no interest in uniting the country -- unless that country is the Confederate States of America.  His tweets about the most recent tragedy in New York is all about divisive politics -- diverting attention from Mueller's investigation into collusion, corruption and obstruction of justice that has the walls closing in on him and providing fodder to impose ever more restrictive, discriminatory and mean-spirited immigration and refugee policies -- and, of course, to blame Democrats for everything.