Posted on 08/05/2019 4:53:28 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Thanks for that, Joe. We know you’re so darn sincere. – Elderly Democrat presidential front-runner Joe Biden, speaking at a high-dollar fundraiser in San Diego on Sunday, comforted the mourning people of El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio by offering his heartfelt sympathies over the “tragic events in Houston today and also in Michigan the day before.” You just seriously could never make these people up, folks.
That Dayton shooter? He was an Elizabeth Warren fan. – So he said himself on his Twitter profile, which was dug up by law enforcement officials on Sunday. A registered Democrat, fan of Fauxcahontas. The shooter in El Paso, who developed an irrational hatred for Hispanics during the Obama Administration for whatever reasons – most likely having to do with his upbringing and nothing at all to do with politics – left behind a manifesto advocating for all manner of pet leftist Democrat causes and a profile at MyLife.com that showed he was a Democrat before some Democrats got into it and altered it.
Yet, our fake news media and every Democrat in America wants you to believe that both incidents are the fault of President Donald Trump. This is a very sick attempt at brainwashing, folks, so nothing really new since that’s what our fake news media attempts to do to us every day of the week.
The brainwashing efforts are especially sick, however, when they come in the wake of mass shootings in which 30 people were brutally murdered by a couple of deranged lunatics.
How sick are these people? CNN’s fake news host Jake Tapper dug disgraced, fired ex-FBI Agent Andrew McCabe up to claim it’s all Trump’s fault on his despicable Sunday program. Irish Bob O’Rourke and failed South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Spartacus Booker were all over the Sunday morning shows calling the President a racist and a white supremacist, blaming him for both incidents without evidence. And fake news hosts like Tapper and Chris Wallace and George Stephanopoulous and Chuck Todd lapped it all up and egged the politicians on, all in craven efforts to drive up ratings.
Blaming President Trump, Elizabeth Warren or any current politician for a 50-year phenomenon in our society that began in the late 1960s is a despicable, depraved political tactic that should be condemned by any thinking American. Before the late 1960s – coinciding with the advent of the effort to de-institutionalize dangerous mental health patients – our country had experienced exactly two mass shooting events in the 20th century: The Camden shootings in 1949, and of course the University of Texas Tower shooter in 1966. We equaled that in about 14 hours on Saturday, and would have surpassed it on Sunday had law enforcement not thwarted a planned copycat effort in Florida.
That de-institutionalizing of severe mental patients culminated in a 1975 Supreme Court decision in a case brought by the leftist ACLU, and the frequency of these events, which had already become a trend, has accelerated ever since. Also not coincidentally, the nation’s homeless population has blossomed during that same period of time.
Many of those mental health institutions were awful, abusive places and definitely needed to be reformed and better-regulated. Instead, the ACLU decision resulted in simply shutting them down and pouring patients, many of whom were dangers to themselves and society, out onto the streets. Many had no support system outside of the institutions, no place to go, and were left to simply fend for themselves. The process of treating new patients inevitably devolved into a process of prescribing drugs to try to control their behaviors and little else.
Both of these most-recent shooters – like so many before them – were known by local school and law enforcement officials and their friends and families to be highly-troubled individuals. They needed real mental care, and did not get it. We will almost without any doubt at all find out that instead they were consuming several different prescription drugs as panaceas to “correct” their behaviors. We will also no doubt find out they were both heavily into violent video games, and come from dysfunctional families.
This is all so clear, and all so utterly, depressingly predictable. And yet, all we are going to be allowed by our fake news media, the Democrats and the online PC culture to talk about is beefing up background checks at gun shows and confiscating ill-defined “assault weapons” from law-abiding citizens.
As if on cue, even the President of the United States, Donald Trump, has decided to try to quell the despicable effort by the political left to blame him for these shootings by playing that same game:
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump · 54m We cannot let those killed in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, die in vain. Likewise for those so seriously wounded. We can never forget them, and those many who came before them. Republicans and Democrats must come together and get strong background checks, perhaps marrying....
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump ....this legislation with desperately needed immigration reform. We must have something good, if not GREAT, come out of these two tragic events!
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The President will deliver a speech from the White House on the matter at 10:00 ET today.
I have no problem with beefing up background checks, but they would have done nothing to prevent these two most recent tragedies or any of the others that came before them, because the inanimate objects that play roles in these acts are not the problem.
But that’s what we are left with because no one in our fake news media or our popular culture wants to deal with the real issue at hand. Our entire country is desperately in need of focused mental care.
Take care of yourselves and your loved ones, because your government damn sure isn’t going to do it for you.
That is all.
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These two shooters passed background checks because they had no previous infractions of the law. Nothing the Democrats have passed would have prevented them from owning guns. This is just another Democrat attempt to disarm American citizens, which did not work so well at the El Paso Walmart, a “Gun Free Zone.”
By the way, the El Paso police strategy of letting a shooter shoot for 20 minutes, so he can live while many victims die, is not smart. The Dayton police strategy was much more effective.
Sanctity precedes sanity
SHUT DOWN THE PUNLIC SCHOOLS.
I’m willing to bet they both are the product of public school.
The meme they are striving for is that White men are emotionally fragile and therefore mentally ill. The police will be able to disarm you under the Red Flag laws. We are looking more and more like the old Soviet Union except with lots of brown people waiting to take over.
By the way, the El Paso police strategy of letting a shooter shoot for 20 minutes, so he can live while many victims die, is not smart. The Dayton police strategy was much more effective.
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But the El Paso police have already been praised for their quick response. (I read that the shooter stopped when he ran out of ammo).
I think there is a difference when the shooter is out in the open and can be seen rather than in a building.
Definitely.
Half the American population--inluding the entire Democrat Party and all who consider themselves "progressives"/"liberals" (whatever the newspeak du jour happens to be--suffers from a severe mass psychosis.
What’s needed is insane asylums....and gallows.
Correct - it's a lot more dangerous to the police clearing a building than shooting a lunatic in the open. "You want them to go home to their families at night don't you?" Saw the same thing at Parkview. As long as no police were inured it's all OK. And since Walmart was supposedly a gun free zone (thus disarming only the law abiding) the murderous filth had a free reign to kill people.
Yep. We didn't have mass shootings and armies of homeless nutcases back when crazies were locked up in asylums.
“...since Walmart was supposedly a gun free zone (thus disarming only the law abiding) the murderous filth had a free reign to kill people....”
Exactly. Nail, meet hammer.
“Gun free” zones are ridiculous and moronic. Avoid the “gun free” kill zones if at all possible, or just totally ignore em...for your own safety. Conceal carry is exactly that: concealed carry. If questioned, state you didn’t see the sign and just immediately leave. When the SHTF, I’d rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6.
Saw the same thing at Parkview. As long as no police were inured it’s all OK.
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You should become a police officer and serve as an example.
Nah - I don't like killing dogs.
If 50% of young people feel as though they have no purpose in life I suggest that America needs God, specifically Jesus Christ. These young people need to know that they are created in His image and have value and a purpose. Nihilism and materialism are not the answer to our nation’s problems. Neither is politics. We are fallen creatures and need redemption.
The point is you become a police officer to set an example by entering buildings alone where there is a shooter, regardless of the danger, and not shooting any dogs no matter how threatening.
And thus you prove my point of view for me by saying that you need someone else to set the example "regardless of the danger." Some might say that going after the shooter to protect citizen lives "regardless of the danger" is exactly what police should do, but we know better don't we? After all what if the shooter kills a few more unarmed citizens - as long as police aren't exposed to danger it's all good.
Let’s start with ending the overprescribing of psychotropic drugs.
“Side effects may include mass murder...”
And thus you prove my point of view for me by saying that you need someone else to set the example “regardless of the danger.”
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Absolutely wrong.
You need to back up your cowardly clucking with action.
I sense a pattern here. "Police put their lives on the line every day" or so we've been told, but they don't. They put other people lives on the line. I didn't sign up to be a cop so I'm not required to enter a building to save innocent lives. The cops did, but they didn't really mean it.
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