Funny how these times of chaos work for the left (Rahm Emmanuel says never let a crisis go to waste) but they always work against the right. They use these opportunities to advance their agenda, while the right is expected to lay low (assuming they can get any lower now). These things, far from slowing the left’s agenda, are used by them to double down. Why can’t the policians putatively on the right do the same thing?
Not really true. This kind of mass shooting is effectively exploited by the left because it plays directly into the gun control story. But other events are used by the right to force stuff through. Most obvious example (and one that doesn’t look good in retrospect) is using 9/11 to start the war with Iraq. There are many laws passed in a victim’s name that are also examples of using a crisis, like Megan’s law. If it wasn’t a white guy shooting, but a muslim refugee, the right would have something to push back on: immigration, attack ISIS. But what are you going to do when it is a white guy with legal guns?