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In Garland, We Got Lucky
National Review Online ^ | 5/4/2015 | Kevin Williamson

Posted on 05/04/2015 12:07:54 PM PDT by mojito

Of course he was a convict.

Elton Simpson was the first figure identified in the latest eruption from the Religion of Peace™ — an attempted massacre at an exhibition of anti-Islamist cartoons in suburban Garland, Texas, which ended in the shooting of Simpson and his coconspirator, because Texas is where terrorists go to get out-gunned at an art show. Simpson and his pal are as dead as a tuna casserole — in Texas, we shoot back.

We got lucky when luck wasn’t what we needed.

Simpson was, like the overwhelming majority of murderers and most of those who commit serious violent crimes, already known to the authorities. He had been investigated by the FBI on the suspicion that he was attempting to travel to Somalia to engage in jihad. He was convicted of lying to the FBI in that episode, and sentenced to . . . probation. The average sentence for a tax-related crime in these United States is 31 months in a federal penitentiary, but for attempting to join up with a gang of savages who are merrily beheading, torturing, enslaving, and raping their way around the world? Probation, and damned little subsequent oversight, apparently.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; curtisculwellcenter; eltonsimpson; garland; islam; mohammedcartoons; religionofpieces; secondamendment; texas; waronterror
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To: BIV

Don’t talk dirty on FR... :)


41 posted on 05/04/2015 1:42:29 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: mojito
The title is accurate. They got lucky. Make no mistake, these attacks will increase with deadly efficiency. There won't always be a good guy with a gun nearby. Texas will be no exception.

And a big thanks to Jorge Busho and Zippy for ensuring this will happen.

42 posted on 05/04/2015 3:00:44 PM PDT by LouAvul ("GOP" is an acronym for "We had our nuts cut off and lost our spine in the process.")
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To: mojito

First installment of Cowboys and Muslims?


43 posted on 05/04/2015 3:52:22 PM PDT by QT3.14 ("What Washington Needs is Adult Supervision" - Zero, 2007 campaign)
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To: mojito

He was known to the gov’t but a Clinton appointed judge let him go. She is consider as a potential supreme court judge. Her sister runs La Raza. A known racist bigoted organization. “For the race everything” is their motto.


44 posted on 05/04/2015 4:25:10 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: mojito

Sorry. I have to disagree with this meme of a pro gun Texas stopping a terrorist act. The facts just don’t bear it out.

The attendees of the gunshow were disarmed. The state of Texas does not allow the open carry of handguns (their gun laws are actually worse than those in Massachusetts in that respect) and their concealed carry is one of the most restrictive in the country: very expensive permit, training, fingerprints, and photo required. When it comes to gun rights, Texas is All Hat, No Cattle.

Fortunately the security included a traffic cop who was a very good shot with his service pistol.


45 posted on 05/04/2015 4:55:35 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Ted Cruz 2016)
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To: Gamecock

In January 17,2015, and in the same public school center, there was a “Stand with the Prophet” rally by Muslims, a pro-Shariah law event, by supporters Al-Qaida and Isis organized by one of the terrorists implicate in the bombing of the garage of the NY World Trade Center in 2003. I wonder if those who try to blame the organizers of the “First Annual Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest,” for the Muslim terrorist attack would have justified if some patriotic American had irrupted in Muslim rally on January 2015 and made a massacre of Islamic terrorists. After all, Americans are profoundly offended by the abuse of our freedoms by those who made the Muslim rally in support of the savages that decapitate, crucify and burned Christians alive, a real grievance more justified than the alleged offense provoked among the Islamic fanatics by the Mohamed cartoons.


46 posted on 05/04/2015 5:03:36 PM PDT by Dqban22
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To: mojito; Bender2; GOPsterinMA
Texas is where terrorists go to get out-gunned at an art show.

Ahahahahahahahahha!

47 posted on 05/05/2015 7:57:50 AM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Impy

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don’t mess with Texas.


48 posted on 05/05/2015 7:59:17 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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