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Just like Bush's attempts to conflate Saddam Hussein with 9/11, since Saturday there have been attempts to conflate the sh00ting with t3rr0rism, beginning with the release of photograph s from the White House of Obama with National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, incoming Chief of Staff Bill Daley, Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina, Director of Communicat ions Dan Pfeiffer, and Assistant to the President for Legislativ e Affairs Phil Schiliro. Also taking part in the call were Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and FBI Director Robert Mueller in the Situation Room on Saturday after the shooting.

I was startled to see the White House release that photo on Saturday, and since then there has been one politically motivated effort after another, attempts at embroidering t3rr0rism and Republicans into the shooting, not dealing with the actual facts of this situation, causes and prevention.

And just like the false conflation during Bush has gotten us no resolution of 9/11, this conflation does nothing to fix the real cause of tragedies like this and prevent them from occurring again. Which is the point and the purpose for doing it.

If Obama and Democrats were serious, they'd be calling for gun control/regulation and a robust policy regarding mental health services nationwide. But that's not what they're going to be doing.