Guns; the new Confederate flag

Distractions. This past summer, that youngster in South Carolina killed nine people during a church meeting. The Left, unable to exploit the shooting as a failure of tougher background checks (the fellow should not have been able to buy the gun, but the FBI didn’t flag the sale in time to prevent him from arming himself), so instead they targeted the confederate flag that he was seen holding in a photo taken before the shooting. They were largely successful in diverting attention from the failures of the background checks and the thing was blamed for the shooting instead of the shooter.

Last weekend, after a shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic, another nut killed three more people – he had a history of sociopathic behavior, but again the NICS failed to flag his gun sales – so the Left blamed criticism of the discussion of PP being in the used baby parts business. Not the fact that they were selling baby parts for fun and profit – the discussion about their practice.

This week, it’s Islamic terrorism. In a rational society, the discussion would be about how we can make ourselves safer from terrorists, but instead the social justice warriors want to make it about the inanimate objects instead of the people who commit these crimes. Take, for example, this tweet from that fellow who wants us to think that he’s Black and doesn’t mind questioning his mother’s virtue to further that perception;

Guns are the ULTIMATE phallic symbol. No item in our society looks, and even functions more like a penis than a handgun.

— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) December 5, 2015

To me, and maybe it’s just me, but it seems that the problem here is an ideology, not the shape of a gun, at the heart of the problem. It also seems to me that adherents to that ideology would just love it if the actions of two people in California disarmed a large number of Americans and made us vulnerable to another such attack. And, isn’t that what terrorism is all about – to influence national policy in their favor by a series of violent attacks designed to terrorize innocent people?

Yesterday, the New York Times called for gun owners to disarm themselves as a response to the terrorist attack in California. Presidential candidate Martin O’Malley blamed the National Rifle Association moments after the attack began. The man who replaced O’Malley as Governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan, says that gun control isn’t working.

The president finally admitted this morning that events in California were the result of a terrorist attack, but he blames the attack on “easy access to weapons of war” instead of the dangerous ideology of the people who killed 14 Americans at a Christmas party. It seems to me that the Left is trying to talk us all into capitulating to the terrorists rather than advocating for us to defend ourselves. And they’re demonizing the inanimate object, the guns, like they did to the Confederate flag this last summer. That strategy worked for them, so why wouldn’t they try it once again?

Local law enforcement officers are urging Americans to arm themselves because they admit that they can’t be everywhere at once – but the federal government is telling us to that we’re too well armed. It’s as if the Federal government is more worried about legal, law-abiding Americans who haven’t killed anyone with their legally obtained weapons than they are about the real threats to our security.

Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists