Letters to the Editor
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Sounds simplistic, but I do think that
He thinks he is just making some important points that need to be said about the tragedy. It's not hypocrisy in his mind because he isn't "exploiting" it for personal aims, just as you aren't exploiting it just to hammer Charles Krauthammer once again. In fact, nobody believes they are exploiting the tragedy, and I see their point when it comes to pro/con gun control: after all, if they aren't allowed to talk about guns and gun violence in the aftermath of a shooting, that's kind of an unfair penalty on the important issue, like banning talk about Iraq's violence while the war is going on ("don't "exploit" the suffering of the troops for you own personal political purposes while they're still in danger").
The point is, unless CK realizes how specious his connection of the shooting is to "islamic terrorists," he won't see how linking the two is exploitation, and therefore won't see himself as being hypocritical. Of course, believing everyone you disagree with acts out of some strange knee-jerk personal politics while only you act of out pure principle is pretty stupid -- but it's a stupidity many of us often fall into.