EXPOSED: Obama Advisors' Emails In Immediate Sandy Hook Aftermath Reveal Anti-Gun Agenda: 'Tap Peoples Emotions' | Eastern North Carolina Now

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    According to emails obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, first reported by The Baltimore Post, advisors to then-President Barack Obama immediately strategized how to exploit the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary school to push their gun control agenda. "Tap peoples [sic] emotions," Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel advised then-Education Secretary Arne Duncan on December 16, 2012, just two days after the massacre that left 26 dead. The victims' bodies were yet to be laid to rest.

    The two discussed how they could exploit the tragedy to bring about their anti-gun agenda. "What are your thoughts?" Duncan asked Emanuel on an email with the subject line, "CT shooting."

    "Go for a vote this week asap before it fades," replied Emanuel. "Tap peoples [sic] emotion. Make it simple assault weapons."

    "Yup- thanks," replied the education secretary.

    "When I did brady bill and assault weapons for Clinton we always made it simple. Criminals or war weapons," wrote back Emanuel.

    Duncan then inquired about the so-called "gun show loophole" and other talking points to push on the public.

    "Gun show loophole? Database? Cop-killer bullets? Too complicated?" he wrote.

    "Cop killer maybe," answered Emanuel. "The other no."

    "Got it," Duncan agreed.

    Emanuel served as the Obama White House Chief of Staff from 2008 to January of 2009. Fittingly, the ruthless politico famously said, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste, and what I mean by that is, it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before." The murder of 20 children included, apparently.

    Manhattan Institute senior fellow Max Eden called the immediate politicization of the tragedy "shameful."