Post Reporter: Gosnell is Just a Local Crime Story

This tweet from the Post’s Sarah Kliff is pretty revealing:

Jim Geraghty went on a riff on local crime stories that is hilarious (Wasn’t O.J. a local crime story? How about Trayvon Martin?)

Billy Valentine, who works at SBA list had a pertinent response “Policy angle here is whether abortion clinics should be regulated. A national issue as many states enacting regs.” Exactly! How is it possible that Newtown leads to a national discussion on gun violence and policy led by the President himself but Gosnell’s house of horror leads to not one word anywhere about proper restrictions on abortion?

National Review’s Robert VerBruggen summed it up in this gem of a response:

@sarahkliff @mzhemingway Makes sense. Similarly, national gun-policy people do not cover local crime in places like Aurora or Newtown.

— Robert VerBruggen (@RAVerBruggen) April 11, 2013