The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Starting next year, next to the words "insensitive," "jerk," "prick," and "douche" in the dictionary will be a picture of Samuel Wurzelbacher, or as he's better known, Joe the Plumber. Following the recent Santa Barbara shooting rampage, Wurzelbacher wrote an open letter to the victims' families, where he actually said this: "I am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through right now. But: As harsh as this sounds -- your dead kids don't trump my Constitutional rights." He then claimed that pro-gun control activists "don't care about your family or your dead children at all," before following that up with this: "They sound like they do, whereas I sound uncaring and like I say, harsh. Don't be fooled - I care about your family and mine. The future of our very liberty lies in the balance of this fight....

While the gun control debate has gone on for decades, it was brought into the national spotlight for the first time in quite a while due to the Newtown tragedy late last year, where 26 people, including 20 6- and 7-year old kids, were shot and killed. It prompted the president to enact numerous executive orders regarding guns, and for him to give a heartfelt speech about the tragedy and looking forward. This has led to potential gun control legislation being debated about in Congress to an extent not seen since the Clinton years. With Republicans threatening to filibuster a vote on gun control legislation, including the expansion of background checks, eleven family members of the Newtown victims were in this nation's capital yesterday to support this very initiative. The Newtown victims' families' presence led to Republican Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe to make the following remark yesterday - "See, I think it's so unfair of the administration to hurt these fam...