Cheap politics and gun control!

At times when there has been a news of a disaster or something of that kind, one would expect that all the politicians would all come together and lend support to the local community that has been affected. But all that they do is to gather the victims around them and give very long winded speeches and make it sound as though their rivals are to blame for the entire thing.
This is totally deplorable and yes, I know that the elections for the U.S president is just around the corner and even that does not excuse the kind of ugly behaviour shown by both the democrats and the republicans in the recent speeches in view of the latest shooting spree that took place recently!