Depends on the circumstances.
Via Townhall:
I have to start by saying I hate it when tragedies are politicized, no matter who does it. With that being said, the two parties do use horrible events differently. Republicans use them to highlight issues of importance; Democrats use them to advance agenda items they’d been wanting to push for years, even when they admit their solutions would not have prevented the tragedy they’re exploiting. It may not seem like much, but it is, and it is an important difference.
After every mass shooting, for example, Democrats reach in their desk drawers and pull out their standard gun control wish list. Buzzwords like “background checks,” “gun show loopholes,” and all the words we’ve come to hear far too often hit the cable news airwaves along with the inevitable “we must do somethings” that accompany them.
Yet after each of these horrible events this ballet plays out with the ultimate reality that none of these proposed “solutions” would have prevented what they are allegedly in reaction to admitted by its advocates.
So why propose a response to something that not only would not have prevented the tragedy, but would also do nothing to prevent a similar event in the future? Because Democrats want to, ultimately, repeal the Second Amendment. They know they can’t do it all at once; incrementalism has always been the left’s tactic. If they have to exploit a tragedy to move the ball in their direction, they are more than happy to do it.
For Republicans, the “solutions” they propose would actually address the root cause of the problem, even if their timing comes across as unseemly.
The murder of Mollie Tibbetts in Iowa by an illegal alien is the perfect example of how Republicans solutions would have prevented the tragedy – the alleged killer would not have been in the country if we enforced our immigration laws and secured our border. Pointing that out may feel like exploitation, and maybe it is, but it’s also true.
In response to this reality, the political left has tried to change the subject. They first tried to accuse Republicans of exploiting the horrible event, which is rich coming from people who openly advocate for hiding criminal illegal aliens from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
When that didn’t work, they went straight for the “whataboutism” game.
CNN, which held a town hall just a couple of days after the horrible Parkland school shooting at which they allowed activist students and the now disgraced Sheriff to blame the National Rifle Association and smear Dana Loesch and Senator Marco Rubio, none of which had anything to do with the shooting, ran two pieces in a 24-hour period attempting to make the Tibbetts murder about President Donald Trump rather than the murder itself.