Posted on 02/22/2018 5:21:04 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
It’s all fake news all the time at @CNN – But then, you already knew that, didn’t you? One of the kids who survived the school shootings in Parkland, Florida last week has revealed that his appearance at a CNN townhall with Senator Marco Rubio and others was actually scripted. He was invited to participate in a panel and told he would be able to ask his own questions, but once the fake journalists at CNN realized his question did not fit the anti-gun narrative the fake news channel is pushing, he was instead fed a scripted question that does. Because, hey, this is CNN after all.
One thing that definitely was in the CNN/DNC script was booing the spokesperson for the National Rifle Association (NRA), Dana Loesch. Loesch was roundly booed when she first spoke, telling the story of a woman named Kimberly Corban who was raped when she was under the age of 21, and who now wishes she had been able to own a gun so she could have defended herself. CNN had packed the audience with anti-gun advocates, and it showed as the boos rained down on Loesch, with no effort by the moderator to stop them. This is how these things go on the nation’s fakest fakety-fake news channel.
Earlier in the day, President Donald Trump (I still never tire of typing those three words) held a “listening session” at the Department of Education Building related to the Parkland shootings, and event that definitely was not scripted or limited to the expression of an approved point of view, as several of the attendees – mostly family of victims and students who survived the killings – were quite critical of the President and his Administration. After this very moving event, the fake news media scrambled around to find something to criticize the President about, with several landing on the fact that he brought some notes to the meeting. Nevermind that the fake media’s hero, Barack Hussein Obama, would have needed a Teleprompter in the room, a single 3 by 5 card with a few notes on it containing points he wanted to emphasize was just too much for all the fake reporters to bear.
The President, who on Tuesday ordered Attorney General Jeff Sessions to quickly write regulations banning “bump stocks” and other gun toys that effectively turn semi-automatic rifles into fully-automatic guns which have long been banned in the U.S., emphasized his belief that training several teachers in each school to be qualified to carry concealed weapons would help to deter school shootings. He correctly noted that schools are so-called “gun-free zones” that are easy targets for killers, after one of the parents noted that, at airports, you can’t get a bottle of water into the terminals, but it’s not a problem at all to bring an AR-15 or similar semi-automatic rifle into pretty much any school in America.
That parent also noted that the DOE building that they were in had armed security and x-ray machines at its entrance – as do all the federal government buildings in Washington, DC – and that there are even armed security guards in the elevators in that building. This is a wonderful point. Our policymakers in Washington – and increasingly in state capitals around the country – go to great lengths to to hire men and women with guns to protect them as they go about their daily business, but they never seem to be able to be bothered to do anything real to protect the nation’s schoolchildren from monsters who want to harm them.
One can only wonder what it is going to take before everyone gets serious on this subject. Are we going to have to lose an entire school filled with children to a bomber before congress can find the will to even ban a toy like bump stocks? Because the reality is that the regulation the President demands from the Attorney General is not likely to pass muster in the courts due to the way in which the law currently reads. Eventually, Congress needs to act.
Republicans like to point out the unarguable fact that, hey, the Democrats had super-majorities in both houses of congress in 2009 and 2010 and never even brought gun control up. That’s super right, and it is also super irrelevant in 2018. The Rs are in charge now, and whether they like or not, part of being in charge is taking blame when you fail to act. It is inexcusable that bump stocks are still legal today, five months after the Las Vegas massacre, after even the NRA endorsed their ban.
But there are always excuses, aren’t there? Banning guns is not the answer here, for obvious reasons. But there are steps that, had they been taken, would have deterred what took place in Parkland. But the excuse for not doing any of them always seems to be ready at hand, and it always seems to boil down to “it’s too hard, or it’s too expensive.”
Beefed-up background checks like the ones I advocated earlier this week? The Republicans invariably say it’s too hard and too expensive. Armed security guards stationed at our schools? The Democrats invariably say it’s too hard and too expensive, along with the idiotic fake argument that it would scare our kids. Good lord. Training teachers to conceal carry? Too expensive and too hard.
But it turns out that none of these things are too expensive or too hard when it comes to protecting members of congress or state legislators or presidents or governors or secretaries of education or air travelers or now, even gamblers in Las Vegas. Where our policymakers and partisan hack talking points monkeys are concerned, all of these classes of people take priority over the nation’s school children.
I don’t know about y’all, but I’m really goddamned tired of hearing about how hard or expensive or complicated it is to do a few things to protect our kids from monsters while they’re at school. Enough is enough.
Just another day in it’s long past time to make the hard choices America.
That is all.
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Well, I warned Dana, lol!
People should quit going on CNN. Why do they keep going on there?
Ignore them.
Why the breathless panic over a bump stock? This unknown mystery device seems to be the firearm boogieman du jour. You can bump fire an AR using a rubber band.
If kids are “scared” of a teacher packing, the kids’ parents need some serious parenting classes!
The Parkland FL shooting event resulted from a hat trick of failure at at least three levels of government: the FBI, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, and the Broward County School Board.
Laws/protocols were in place, but they were ignored.
Further, a bump stock was not even used at Parkland—Why the Hell is it even a subject of conversation, aside from being a shiny to distract from other, more important, things?
:)
I would ask "over twitter?", but you are such a influential conservative on FR and outside it, you probably told her that in real life didn't you M.M.? ;)
No, I was joking. I thought it was a bad idea; although Dana is very articulate. I’ve been in stacked audiences on Israeli topics when claques of Jew-haters were planted in the audience. You’ve never cried until you’re stuck with 300 haters around you. And in my America, too. Tarrytown, NYC with my pal, Sidney Zion.
The Parkland FL shooting event resulted from a hat trick of failure at at least three levels of government: the FBI, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, and the Broward County School Board.
Laws/protocols were in place, but they were ignored.
Further, a bump stock was not even used at Parkland—Why the Hell is it even a subject of conversation, aside from being a shiny to distract from other, more important, things?
Instead of putting these wanna-be monsters in institutions for criminally insane, they pump them full of PROZAC and unleash them to simmer and come to a killing-spree boil.
If the monster had not had a gun, he would have done exactly the same or worse with a car driven at high speed through the same crowd he created with the fire alarm.
While mental health ‘councilors’ go overboard with touchy-feely, feel-good, politically correct jargon like ‘safe zones’ etc. they let murder and mayhem go out into the world freely, without let or hindrance.
The one who ‘medicated’ the monster and let him loose should be HELD ACCOUNTABLE!!!!
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