Posted on 08/16/2019 6:59:27 AM PDT by rktman
One thing about tragedies: They reveal people for who they really are. In the past two weeks, we’ve learned a lot about our media and political class. Our country endured two separate and horrifying mass shootings, one in El Paso, Texas, and the other in Dayton, Ohio. Between them, at least 31 people were murdered. Two massacres, back to back. It’s tempting to look for themes that connect them, but if there are any, they’re not political. One gunman appeared to be a Trump voter. The other supported Sen. Elizabeth Warren. There’s no obvious ideological lesson here. But that hasn’t stopped the usual power-hungry politicians from trying to leverage human pain for political advantage. Here’s just a sampling of the commentary from the Democratic presidential field:
Rep. Beto O’Rourke: “You don’t get mass shootings like these, you don’t torch mosques, you don’t put kids in cages until you have a president who has given people permission to do that. And that is exactly what is happening in the United States of America today.”
Mayor Pete Buttigieg: “It is very clear that this kind of hate is being legitimized from on high.”
Warren: “White supremacy is a domestic terrorism threat in the same way that foreign terrorism threatens our people. And it is the responsibility of the president of the United States to help fight back against that, not to wink and nod and smile at it and let it get stronger in this country.”
Mayor Julian Castro: “This echoes the kind of language that our president encourages.”
Sen. Cory Booker: “I want to say with more moral clarity that Donald Trump is responsible for this.”
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Young men? No. Young males who don’t realize “man” is an earned title and have never been taught how to achieve it.
It is the culture turning away from God that is culminating in all of the violence.
Abortion and the cheapening of life, destruction of the family, pretending man is in control of the climate, watering down established religions to accommodate the weakness of man, etc....
Calling them "men" is being overly optimistic.
Liberalism is a mental/spiritual disorder.
If we straight white guys are so bad, how is it there so many swishes parading around pretending to be women, women who aren’t barefoot or pregnant, and why isn’t Corey Booker shining my shoes?
BUMP!
Chris Rock: “Whenever a shooting happens, people immediately ask what kind of music they listened to, what kind of games they played. What ever happened to just plain ‘crazy’?”
Guns?
Young Men?
Nope.
It’s insane psychotic liberals who are the problem. And always has been.
“One gunman appeared to be a Trump voter.”
Not according to what I read. The press forces us to examine their political beliefs, but the fact is they’re just nuts.
These horrors started when liberal elites ' hijacked the culture in the 60's...
The result: People withdrawing from social interaction (Bowling Alone - Robert D. Putnam), massive male alienation, even our strong support of Trump - all of us - grasping at a last straw praying Trump can save the culture from CommieLite nihilists...
When are we going to subsidize stable, 2 parent families?
Young men? What young men? some, or all? What do you mean by saying young men? Otherwise you are trashing all those young men who do NOT do anything in the slightest way wrong.
Going out on a limb here saying 99.9% of those punks we read about in the Chicago news every Monday morning have never voted. Well, them personally, as in their live body walking into the polling place has never voted but their mail in ballot may have many times.
Everybody seems to be sidestepping the obvious.
Here are some facts:
There are 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, and this number is not disputed. The U.S. population is 324,059,091 as of June 22, 2016. Do the math: 0.00925% of the population dies from gun related actions each year. Statistically speaking, this is insignificant. What is never told, however, is a breakdown of those 30,000 deaths, to put them in perspective as compared to other causes of death:
65% of those deaths are by suicide, which would never be prevented by gun laws.
15% are by law enforcement in the line of duty and justified.
17% are through criminal activity, gang and drug related or mentally ill persons – better known as gun violence.
3% are accidental discharge deaths.
So technically, “gun violence” is not 30,000 annually, but drops to 5,100. Still too many? Now lets look at how those deaths spanned across the nation.
480 homicides (9.4%) were in Chicago
344 homicides (6.7%) were in Baltimore
333 homicides (6.5%) were in Detroit
119 homicides (2.3%) were in Washington D.C. (a 54% increase over prior years)
So basically, 25% of all gun crime happens in just 4 cities. All 4 of those cities have strict gun laws, so it is not the lack of law that is the root cause.
This basically leaves 3,825 for the entire rest of the nation, or about 75 deaths per state. That is an average because some States have much higher rates than others. For example, California had 1,169 and Alabama had 1.
Young, democrat men.
If we could disarm democrats, there would be no shootings.
Wednesday’s cop-shooter in Philly had a six-time felony record for illegal gun possession. He never should have been let out after the first time: Today’s Leftist cries for gun “control” are a prime example of Govt going after the innocent because they never punish the guilty. SORRY! No WAY, Jose!
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