I need a good comeback for this.
Posted on 06/19/2015 6:21:15 PM PDT by Kaslin
"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before." - Rahm Emanuel
Less than 24-hours after a racist young white man killed nine black members of the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina Wednesday night, the left took the opportunity to immediately politicize the tragedy with a push for more gun control.
First, President Obama made a statement from the White House claiming violence like this "doesn't happen in other advanced countries" and blamed easy access to a firearm for the tragedy.
"We don’t have all the facts, but we do know that once again innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun. Now is the time for mourning and for healing. But let’s be clear, at some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency. And it is in our power to do something about it," Obama said at the White House before jetting off to a pair of DNC fundraisers in California. "I say that recognizing the politics in this town foreclose a lot of those avenues right now. But it would be wrong for us not to acknowledge it. And at some point it’s going to be important for the American people to come to grips with it."
Then, Democrat Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton followed suit at a convention in Las Vegas.
"In order to make sense of it, we have to be honest. We have to face hard truths about race, violence, guns, and division," Clinton said. "How many innocent people in our country -- from little children, church members, to movie theater attendees -- how many people do we need to see cut down before we act? So as we mourn and as our hearts break a little more, and as we send this message of solidarity that we will not forsake those who have been victimized by gun violence, this time we have to find answers together.
First, the statement from Obama that this type of violence only happens in the United States is false. David Harsanyi has the numbers:
It take only takes some quick research to discover that rampage killers, acts of terror (as the Charleston shooting most certainly is), school attacks, spree killers are not unique to the United States.
In 2011, a deranged Anders Behring Breivik killed eight people by setting off a van bomb in Oslo, before going on to murder 69 more people, mostly children, at a summer camp. This is the single worst shooting spree incident in history. Obama surely remembers that he left the White House and visited the Norwegian ambassador’s residence to offer his condolences.
It takes only a rudimentary search to find out that mentally unstable killers can be found anywhere. In February of this year, nine people were killed in Czech Republic spree killing. In Erfurt, Germany, a couple of years ago, an expelled student murdered 13 teachers, 2 students and a policeman. That same year, in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanca, a gunman shot and killed 14 people—many of them his own relatives— and a Russia gunman opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle killing six people. A couple of years before that, in England, a lone gunman killed 12 people and injured 11.
Advanced countries or developing ones, it’s the same thing. In 2013 a mentally unstable man in Rio de Janeiro killed 12 children and seriously wounded another 12. And you might remember that China had an outbreak of mass stabbings, hammer and cleaver attacks not long ago. You don’t need guns to kill people.
Evil exists and it exists everywhere, not just in America.
Second, Martin Luther King Jr. owned a handgun precisely because of the violent racism we saw carried out on Wednesday night. Racist local police denied him the ability to carry it outside of his home, making his ability to "get his hands on a gun" more difficult. Is this something Obama and Clinton support? I would hope not.
Third, would more gun control have prevented this horrible tragedy? The answer is no. The racist man (who I refuse to glorify by naming him) who killed nine black christian worshippers out of pure hate Wednesday didn't legally obtain the firearm he used to carry out the massacre. Reports show that either his father gave him a .45 caliber handgun for his 21st birthday, which would have been illegal due to a previous felony charge on his record (and a felony for his father as it is illegal to purchase a gun for someone who is ineligible to do so), or that he stole his mother's handgun to carry out his crime, another felony. Either way, gun control laws were broken but that isn't stopping the left from taking the opportunity to push a political agenda not based on fact.
It's not like there's language in the Constitution which says you can't have laws like that ...
No one saw THAT coming from the gun grabbers!
And the assertion that other industrialized nations don’t have such things happen is a LIE.
I think it was caused by Global Warming. And I think we should pass a law against Global Warming. Let’s just get this done.
Machete control. Where was the outrage in OK, eh, Rev Sharton?
There is not a single gun control proposal out there that would have prevented the Charleston massacre. Not one.
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Ever notice how many people advocating gun control have armed protection themselves?
Buy stock in Ruger and Glock.
What all the MSM Admin Prostitutes are hiding is that the shooter was on several high powered phychotropic drugs to treat his drug abuse.
CNN is saying that “all white people have to answer for Charleston”, just a few months after absolving all Muslims for the attacks by the two terrorists in Texas.
I need a good comeback for this.
I’m sure that all 10 people watching CNN tonight will agree.
Yawn. More calls for disarming law abiding citizens.
It’s what MARXISTS do.
F U B U!
Good plan. Obama has caused gun sales to quadruple! :)
> Ever notice how many people advocating gun control have armed protection themselves?
Constantly, unfortunately.
They are wasting their time. Gun owners know why we need guns, as does any society that wishes to remain free, and we’ll never give them up.
They are always on psychotropic drugs. Anybody seeing a pattern here? Its not random. Notice how the hue and cry for gun control is always immediate.
Gun sales were slowing.
I wonder how many of those gun death were delivered by hands of liberals, felons, blacks, and patients on psychotropic drugs averse to conservatives? I wonder how many shootings have been staged by persons connected to the WH or Soros to achieve their gun control agenda?
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