Why Have Mass Killing racheted up During the Obama Regime?

Gun Watch ^ | 16 June, 2016 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

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There are two reasons why mass killings have increased during the Obama regime.  They have increased because the regime gives those killers what they want.  The cartoon illustrates these reasons.

These killings are rare.  They do not happen often.  There have been a cluster of them during President Obama's terms in office.  There are good reasons for that.

There are two types of mass killing that have occurred.  The first is the rampage killer.  These are accomplished by socially isolated mental cases, who hope to obtain a sort of immortality by killing as many people as possible. They want to "make the record book" and have "everybody know my name".  Those killings are the Gabbrielle Giffords shooting, the Aurora Theater attack, the Sandy Hook school killing, the Umpqua College shooting, and the Charleston Church shooting.  The biggest driver of those type of mass killings is media coverage of the events.

Media coverage of those events are over the top, because the major media see them as a way to implement gun control.   The media benefit from ratings and from politicization of the event.  The old media use these events to further their agenda to impose severe restrictions on gun ownership and use.  The restrictions called for often have no relationship to the mass killings committed.

The more coverage given to these events, the more likelyhood that another fragile ego will see them as a means to  fame and an end of their pain.  It is called the copycat effect, and is well documented.  The media know about it, but they do not care.  Getting their agenda advanced is more important than a few dozen lives.

The copycat effect has been demonstrated and documented over and over again.  Clayton Cramer wrote a paper on this in 1993.   It was published in a the Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 9:1 [Winter 1993-94].  It won First Place, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Ethics Prize, 1993, Undergraduate Division.  It has been widely written about in other publications, such as the Wall Street Journal.   A book, The Copycat Effect, by Loren Coleman, was written in 2004.   It detailed simple strategies for mitigating the effect and reducing the number of these mass public killings.   They could be implemented without any significant chilling effect on the first amendment.

The second type of mass killing is the Islamist terrorist attack.  These are the Boston Marathon attack, the Fort Hood massacre, the Chattanooga recruit center attack, the Garland shooting (which was stopped), the San Bernadino massacre, and the Orlando Pulse Massacre. These attacks have been facilitated by the Obama administration for two reasons.  First, because the Islamicists see that they are winning.  They have advanced mightily in Libya and Syria.  The Americans left Iraq and are pulling out of Afghanistan.  ISIS built up in the vacume left by Barak Obama in Iraq.

 The failed "Arab Spring" policy of destabilized Libya, Syria, Egypt, and Iraq, while emboldening Iran,   Islamicists have established organizations and safe zones in the chaos created by the Obama regime policies.

Islamicist are not swayed by talk of fellowship, of how Christians are the real threat, and Islam is the religion of peace.  They see that talk as a sign of weakness. They believe that Allah has prepared their enemies for destruction.  By appearing and acting weakly, the Obama administration has greatly encouraged our radical Islamic enemies.

Successful Islamist attacks against America have multiplied under the Obama administration.  The Obama administration has sent signals, over and over again to the radical Islamist.  Those signals are that America is weak and ready for defeat.

Those are the two reasons why mass killings have increased in the last eight years.  Through its policies, the Obama administration has encouraged them.  Pushing for more gun control encourages the media to give more coverage to mass killings.  More coverage of mass killings encourages more mass killers.

Appear weak and facilitating to Islamic terrorists, and you encourage more Islamic terrorists.

Both types of killers look for soft targets where there will be little opposition.  The Obama administration has pushed for more gun free zones, and wants fewer people to be armed to defend themselves.  Those policies have not advanced, in spite of the administration's desires.

The rate of people being murdered in the United States has been at record low levels, some of the lowest in 50 years.  But 2016 may be a turning point.  The policies of the Obama administration have produced the Ferguson effect, where police officers are reluctant to police in inner cities.  The murder rate in the inner cities has bounded upward in response.

The number of people killed in mass killling is a small fraction of those murdered in the United States. It will have a small effect on the overall murder rate.  But add the Ferguson effect and the mass killings, and the murder rate in 2016 will increase.

Policies have consequences. The Obama regime is reaping the consequences of their polices. It will take years to undo the damage. It is sad that innocent people are dying as a result.

Armed citizens cannot completely stop mass killings, but they can reduce the casualties.  Here are over twenty cases where armed citizens stopped mass killers in their tracks.

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[marktwain]

Two reasons: The media cartel wants to infringe on the Second Amendment, so they ramp up coverage of mass killing, incentivising more rampage killers; and Obama does a good job of projecting weakness, incentivising Islamic terrorists. (and prevents profiling and investigations)

[Terry L Smith]

The mulatto in the White House who thinks he is a king, is the prime motivator behind all these killings.

1. the Negroes think this guy has their back, proven out by the lack of reprisals after the ‘black lives matter’ riots.

2. the increase in Mohammedan killings in this country, because that same mullato has stated in his book, that he would side with the mohammedans, when things started going against them.

[Sacajaweau]

All PC.....Ca, Fort Hood, another in DC, Orlando and perhaps more that have been shoved under the rug.

Even the first hit on the Towers in NYC was a PC job. Bubba just said we'll get him. And the guy went to Iraq. But Bubba said nothing of upping security or the devastation the muzzies were spreading. PC...all the way.

Look at Benghazi...Video my a**. Another PC attempt.

[SMARTY]

“Why Have Mass Killing racheted up During the Obama Regime?”

Rhetorical?

[BitWielder1]

Because the shooters (and their sponsors) know their acts will find resonance in the white house and the media.

[impactplayer]

Disney did not have to put up a new fence to keep visitors out of the water - all they needed was a new sign: “Alligator free zone - not gators allowed.”

There, that fixed it.

[rockrr]

Successful Islamist attacks against America have multiplied under the Obama administration. The Obama administration has sent signals, over and over again to the radical Islamist. Those signals are that America is weak and ready for defeat.

We read this and instinctively know it to be true. The left reads this and shouts, "Poppycock!" They look at the size of ISIS and scoff at the notion that we could be defeated by them. But defeat is simple if we don't fight back.

I enjoyed the article but sincerely wonder what it would take to get the left to pull their heads out.

[Microbubba]

Never let a serious crisis go to waste, especially when you’ve worked so hard to bring them to life.

[DaveA37]

“These killings are rare. They do not happen often.”........

Guess the author never heard of Chicago.

[Biggirl]

Plus show his “true colors”.

[BuffaloJack]

More mass killings, because the regime coddles muslims and looks the other way whenever they misbehave.

[philman_36]

I'm Afraid You're in the Wrong Bathroom

[marktwain]

There are a lot of individual killings in Chicago, but mass public killings are rare.

[alloysteel]

I so despise the statement “Correlation is not causation”. It presumes that A is totally unconnected to B. Sometimes, more often than not, there is a very direct link between A and B.

Identifying, then not tracking and maintaining a watch on persons of questionable mental stability, borders on negligence if not outright dereliction of duty. Maybe there was not enough time, or there were not enough resources to devote to the task. But to arbitrarily close the books and expunge the record, simply because the subject is Islamic, is feeding into a certainty that the smoldering fire shall, sooner or later, erupt in a blaze of fury and chaos, “Sudden Jihad Syndrome”.

Islam, in and of itself, is probably relatively benign, so long as the precepts posed in the Koran are not put into full and bloody practice. But when these very draconian directives are formed into a legal code, as in Shari’ah law, then the merely intellectual study of the philosophy involved becomes a subject of growing concern. Shari’ah law springs forth not just from a demented old sand hermit’s vision of revenge and retaliation for real or imagined slights and persecution, but feeds into the mental infirmities of later disciples of the doctrines outlined in the Koran.

Given the means of being able to inflict injury and death upon dozens or even hundreds of others in a very swift and bloody manner, this becomes a deadly equation.

Radicalized Islamic Jihadist + means of inflicting death and pain = terrorist attack.

The weapon of choice is not always semi-automatic pistols or rifles, both of which are totally without any degree of volition. It could be airplanes, it could be knives, it could be improvised home-made bombs, it could be an automobile plunging into a packed crowd.

All of which are completely devoid of any capability of autonomous independent action.

[Ketill Frostbeard]

Never let a crisis go to waste. Don't forget; this is an administration to whom Yazidi and Christian genocide was not only generated by Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration, but used as political capital with globalist Clinton Foundation contributors, as a weapon to both destabilize Europe and more deeply entrench a "One Europe" socialist oligarchy, to disinherit, dismay, disenfranchise, and dismiss American citizens who were told that inbound muslim jihadists made better citizens than native Americans themselves, and that questioning a cause to declare American citizens who would not vote for Obama to be the number one threat to national security, to announce ISIS was not a threat and chiding Republicans like fools for thinking otherwise. After all, the Smartest Negro in the World reduced the mighty army of the Islamic State to JV status simply through their superstitious fear of his mighty wooly brain, and his ruthlessly prosecuted "leaflet war".

Any administration for whom genocide abroad and criminalization of opponents is so easily swallowed, has no problem creating such a crisis, where one muslim terrorist in chief gives the order, another muslim pawn carries it out, and completes the circle of lies with third party muslim apologists slapping America's racist face for even noticing the assassin was muslim, and dismissing public concern as a terror tactic by the opposition capitalizing on tragedy.

[MonicaG]

Gavin de Becker wrote about this in The Gift of Fear. The media reward the mental nut-job murderers with the celebrity & attention they crave, thereby alerting the other nut-job would-be psy ho’s (typo and it stays!) that they can bank on getting the same kind of media attention & instant celebrity by acting on their own sick fantasies. Which in turn gives the media more It Bleeds, It Leads stories, which encourages more psycho’s to act out... lather, rinse, repeat.

[marktwain]

Yes, that is the dynamic. The media profit from the carnage and use it to push their agenda.

[SMARTY]

A big factor in all this is that the ‘religion’ is SO reactionary and pathologically pious, that we now have at least 6 generations of Muslims who do not and have never WORKED.

They have so far messed up their homeland societies, and so completely deformed their culture to suit the extremes of their ‘devotion’ that there is no work or place in their societies for females and NO work for males.

Keep 50% of humanity OUT of the society and OUT of the decision making process and, YES... your society WILL be backward, poor and VIOLENT!

[B4Ranch]

The Orlando Shooter was a Muslim.
The San Bernadino Shooters were Muslims.
The Chattanooga Shooter was a Muslim
The Shoe Bomber was a Muslim
The Beltway Snipers were Muslims
The Fort Hood Shooter was a Muslim
The underwear Bomber was a Muslim
The U-S.S. Cole Bombers were Muslims
The Madrid Train Bombers were Muslims
The Bafi Nightclub Bombers were Muslims
The London Subway Bombers were Muslims
The Moscow Theatre Attackers were Muslims
The Boston Marathon Bombers were Muslims
The Pan-Am flight #93 Bombers were Muslims
The Air France Entebbe Hijackers were Muslims
The Iranian Embassy Takeover, was by Muslims
The Beirut U.S. Embassy bombers were Muslims
The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack was by Musiims
The Buenos Aires Suicide Bombers were Muslims
The Israeli Olympic Team Attackers were Muslims
The Kenyan U.S, Embassy Bombers were Muslims
The Saudi, Khobar Towers Bombers were Muslims
The Beirut Marine Barracks bombers were Muslims
The Besian Russian School Attackers were Muslims
The first World Trade Center Bombers were Muslims
The Bombay & Mumbai India Attackers were Muslims
The Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers were Muslims
The September 11th 2001 Airline Hijackers were Muslims’

[Wildbill22]

Fast And Furious involving drug lords could be described as a “False Flag” operation to get more gun control.

Why is it so inconceivable to think this administration would use mentally unstable people to do the same thing?