Posted on 02/15/2018 5:15:11 AM PST by SJackson
Another tragedy the Left won’t let go to waste
After a disturbed former student shot and killed at least 17 people yesterday afternoon at a Miami-area high school, the gun-grabbing Left demanded even more regulation of firearms, which, despite constitutional protections, are already the most heavily regulated consumer good in America.
President Trump expressed sympathy for the victims. “My prayers and condolences to the families of the victims of the terrible Florida shooting. No child, teacher or anyone else should ever feel unsafe in an American school,” Trump tweeted.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) described the attack as “absolutely pure evil.”
The Valentine’s Day massacre took place at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. At least 14 people have been hospitalized.
The alleged spree killer is Nikolas Cruz, 19, who had previously been a student at that high school but was expelled because of a fight. After using what was described as an AR-15-style rifle on those in the facility, Cruz walked out of the school with other students and was briefly at large before he was captured by law enforcement, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel (D) told reporters. Cruz was reportedly in the school’s Junior ROTC program and was apprehended wearing an ROTC shirt.
Students who knew Cruz described him as a volatile loner whose odd behavior lost him friends.
Authorities are looking at Cruz’s social media activity in an effort to piece together a motive for the deadly atrocity.
His Instagram account registered under the user name “cruz_nikolas” was taken down soon after the incident. One of the photos there displayed a screen shot of a Google search for “what does Allahu akbar [mean],” as well as what appear to be photos of Cruz, his face covered, posing with weapons.
On a second Instagram account under the user name “nikolascruzmakarov” the profile photo showed a person wearing a “Make America Great Again” baseball cap, his face covered by a bandana. Makarov is a semi-automatic pistol that was the Soviet Union's standard military and police sidearm.
“Nicolas Cruz” reportedly registered as a Democrat to vote in Oakland Park, Fla., but it may not be the same person. Apart from the spelling of the first name, Cruz is, after all, a popular Latino surname in a state with a huge Latino population.
On social media, some claimed Cruz was a so-called DREAMer who benefited from President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) deportation-withholding program but this is unproven.
On cue while the bodies were still warm and the dead still unidentified, left-wingers across America ghoulishly welcomed the death and suffering in Parkland as a convenient opportunity to push their policy agenda.
One of the most disturbing and contemptible comments came from Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.), a member of the Communist-linked Congressional Progressive Caucus and a close ally of the terrorist-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Instead of focusing on the real problem, that is, the fact that the high school in question was a gun-free zone that left 3,000 students at the mercy of a crazed killer, the lawmaker insinuated that Republicans were somehow responsible for the murders, tweeting:
Republicans should pray for forgiveness, for not only their complacency and dereliction of duty, but in contrition for the men, women and children we continue to lay to rest because of senseless gun violence and the cowardly inaction from Congress.
Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), pretended to care about gun safety because the concept is a left-wing crowd pleaser. At 5:32 p.m., he tweeted:
Another day, another shooting, indeed, multiple shootings today, while Congress sits in the grip of the NRA, incapable of making the slightest gesture toward reasonable gun safety.
On CNN, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) said “enough is enough,” adding people need “to start thinking about such things as background checks.” Background checks, of course, are already mandatory, but this deceitful talking point never seems to go away.
Sen. Chris Murphy, (D-Conn.), long an enemy of the civil rights protected by the Second Amendment, dusted off tired old statist arguments on the Senate floor as he lamented the mass shooting that no new anti-gun regulation could have prevented.
“This happens nowhere else other than the United States of America," he said. "It only happens here not because of coincidence, not because of bad luck, but as a consequence of our inaction. We are responsible for a level of mass atrocity that happens in this country with zero parallel anywhere else."
The attack in Florida came hours after shots were fired when the driver of an unauthorized vehicle attempted to enter the secure campus of the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Md., about 30 miles outside the nation's capital.
An NSA police officer, a civilian bystander, and the vehicle’s driver were injured but not by gunfire, Gordon Johnson, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Baltimore field office, told reporters outside the National Cryptologic Museum. “I cannot emphasize enough that we believe there is no indication that this has a nexus to terrorism,” Johnson said.
The investigation is ongoing.
Forgive my crude language, but the Democrats have hard-ons for school shootings.
Any type shooting involving numbers, yo.
What is coming is the total and utter ban on AR15s and the like.
Yep. Bill Nelson is on Fox and Friends right now, blathering on about guncontrolguncontrolguncontrol.
He did the same thing yesterday, even as events were occurring. The RATS never miss an opportunity to spout their stupid propaganda. Never.
“Nicolas Cruz” reportedly registered as a Democrat to vote in Oakland Park, Fla., but it may not be the same person. Apart from the spelling of the first name, Cruz is, after all, a popular Latino surname in a state with a huge Latino population.
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Ah. Isn’t this sweet? The media is attempting to be fair. It never entered their fair and balanced little heads to cover for a RAT, did it? You can bet if Cruz was an NRA card-carrying Republican you’d be hearing nothing else, 24/7.
Makes me think of a piece from John Lott that I read recently. Apparently, Dylan Klebold (one of the perpetrators of the 1999 bloody rampage at Columbine High School) had discussions about guns and politics with his father and both very much opposed laws that made it easier for law abiding citizens to legally obtain permits to carry concealed handguns. The young Klebold was strong enough in his opposition to such laws that it was to the point he was supposedly reconsidering his initial interest in attending university in Arizona as that state had at the time recently passed this sort of legislation.
Lott also noted that Klebold and Harris carried out their horrible act on the same day that the Colorado state legislature was supposed to discuss (and very likely pass with the Governor’s support) concealed carry legislation and that they had initially meant to carry out the rampage at a later date but regarded the legislation as a potential threat to their plans.
Holy cow...I didn’t know that.
Why dont dhimmiRats want to ban cars? They kill way more people
...What is coming is the total and utter ban on AR15s and the like...
Not likely. The Democrats would run out of AR15 confiscators after a couple of days.
It’s better to have some dead kids in a highschool than Democrat rule and no guns
WRONG!
They SHOULD 'feel' unsafe; for there is NO WAY to protect them!!
Where a child SHOULD 'feel' safe is in it's mother's womb!!
But we KNOW that 25% of perfectly healthy children will DIE there: just because 'Mom' doesn't want them.
When viewed as post birth abortions, there should be no problem.
what is the difference? kids are kids
Not a peep: Did I mis-read\hear, TWO hours for cops to respond (ala Columbine)??
Worst was hearing some talking head (Whoraldo?), during the drive in, bloviating that a long-gun semi-auto is different/worse than a handgun semi-auto...finger-pull = fire in both cases.
Think it was Lil’ Marco (least that’s whom it sounded like it was) on the ‘other side’ hemming & hawing in his usual articulate fashion.
Nothing would please the Dems more than about a dozen of these shootings a year (or maybe a month) because it gives them talking points for disarming the people.
yup
CHOICE will kill about 3,300 future Americans today.
If one thinks a mother protecting her children can be a destructive force, then let's find out how the Father goes about handling all the souls that were sent to Him prematurely....
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