Posted on 07/24/2016 8:04:18 AM PDT by Lazamataz
Like a clock, every single time there is a media-hyped mass-shooting, Obama rotely returns to his podium and calls for gun bans and strict firearms regulations. It has almost become cliché. He, of course, WILL NOT speak to the motivations of the assailants, except one time, when Dillon Root -- a true racist who happened to be photographed in front of a Confederate Flag -- and in this example, Obama spoke quite a bit about incentive, when he was not focused on gun control.
Most of the rest of the attacks were motivated by Islamics who were strictly interpreting the Quran, or committed by racists in the black community who's anger was directed against Caucasians and/or police. Here, however, Obama routinely ignores or actively covers up the motivations of the shooters. He is greatly aided by a complaint and colluding press, who report Obama's words without questioning them or pointing out the fallacies included therein.
The sequence of events have become monotonously repetitive: Shooting occurs, and within hours, Obama is calling for gun bans -- often before the nature of the attack, the identification of the attacker, and the discovery of the type and make of the firearm has even been made!
Even the odious New York Times noted that Obama is engaged in a completely ritualistic behavior, though they unsurprisingly fell firmly into the gun ban camp.
This ritual has two purposes: To keep the idea of gun bans firmly in the public's mind, and also to distract from the inspirations of the shooters. Are they black people, who murder police officers? Obama goes to guns. Are they Islamics who kill 50 in a gay club? Obama goes to guns. Are they the clinically insane, who attack fellow university students? Obama goes to guns. Are they Jihadists who managed to sneak their way into our military and on to our bases? Obama goes to guns.
No matter the scenario, and with no mention to the motivations, Obama repetitively calls for more gun control.
Now we see the same behavior in Germany, where Sigmar Gabriel (of the Social Democrat Party) has joined the Chorus of the Mindlessly Boring, and proclaimed that gun control is "an important issue", and that Germany "must continue to do all we can to limit and strictly control access to deadly weapons.”
This is a uniquely fallacious opinion, since Germany has some of the most onerous gun laws in Europe. The attacker, a German citizen of Iranian descent, purchased his firearm in a completely illegal fashion, yet the left pushes further laws.
Perhaps they can save time, and simply reprint the laws they have in a larger, bold, italicized font. It would do as much good as what they plan to propose.
The definition of insanity is doing the same actions and expecting different results. However, maybe the results they wish to achieve are NOT related to mass shootings and crime. Perhaps the results they wish to achieve are darker and more malevolent: Disarmament of the native-born citizenry while hordes of military-age Muslim men are imported for whatever nefarious reason they hold confidential.
The insanity of the left is on full display, and the mendaciousness of the Globalists and Elitists is clearly demonstrated, over and over again.
Actually, this is a particular phrase where I would invoke Author's Privilege. I like this phrase. It has cadence. Goes/Guns. I feel it is one of the standout phrases. If you were the editor and I was the website author, I'd overrule you on this one, or attempt to. :)
Okay. It does have alliteration.
Fine, but am I *sexy*?
And now I’m going to the pool.
I’m the wrong person to ask about that.
In retrospect, you are right. I need to structure up sentence my tighten.
Proper answer: “If one considers intelligence a turn on, sure.”
I can give you some smooth-lessons in exchange for your grammar and composition help. :)
PS: I joke around a lot, but I sincerely appreciate your no-holds-barred honest assessments. It surely shall improve me, as an author.
P1 – Dylann Roof (may his name be obliterated from all history) (not Dillon Root) (Dillon Root played football for Fresno State.)
P2 – whose anger (not who's anger); compliant . . . (not complaint) press
P3 – sequence . . . has become (not have); nature . . . ID . . . discovery . . . have (not has)
P4 – NYT . . . fall (not fell) firmly; gun-ban camp (hyphenated adjective); Better: NYT . . . they unsurprisingly are firmly (they were never pro-2A; no event or rhetoric pushed them off a perch to fall into a camp of different opinion)
P5 – motives (not inspirations; motive implies criminality; inspiration implies virtue); . . . blames guns (not goes to guns)
P6 – without mentioning the murderers' motives (not "with no mention to the motivations"; call murder out for what it is)
P8 – completely illegally (not "in a completely illegal fashion")
P10 – Einstein famously defined insanity as repeating (not doing) the same experiment but expecting different results. (Other, clinical definitions exist.) The Lab is on a mission to expunge "do" – the lamest, laziest, least descriptive transitive verb – from English.
P11 – repeatedly (not over and over)
Separately, your nick spelled backward is zatamazal = Zat A. Mazal ~ Crude, incorrect, but effective Yiddish for Oy! My bad luck!
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YOU GUYS ROCK
Before I take editorials public, out to the conservative media, I intend to vet them here....
So people — PEOPLE LIKE YOU — who know far more about proper English than I do, can review them.
THANK YOU BOTH
“Band guns”
“I remember this one time in Band Camp....”
Somehow we must find the strength to stop guns from banding together and killing people. The first step is to pass a new law forbidding more than two guns in one place at one time. Don’t talk to me about the right to assemble peacefully, when have guns ever assembled for peaceful purposes? I tell you these gun bands must not be allowed to roam all over this country wreaking havoc and reeking of Haddock. Next thing you know they will get together with the Roses and we’ll all be Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door or somewhere much worse. No American should be shot dead while smelling a rose. Vote for George Clinton to stop gun band violence.
Glad to help.
bkmk
You’re always welcome to my advice, which you are free to take or leave. Also, you’re much more fun than most people.
I take a lot of your suggestions. I shall rewrite and repost on this thread for further suggestions...
“The GG’s are nothing if not persistent, and that is exactly what we need. Every week we should have pro 2A representatives/senators introducing pro gun legislation.”
I concur. Anyone representing conservatives should not only be “busy defending our rights”, they should get busy RESTORING our rights.
“Gun control” is just a dog whistle. It makes the right people jump the right way at suitable times. Notice that the Left never actually does anything about it when they can; ever since the federal AWB fiasco, it’s only brought up to rally the troops and demonize the opposition.
They don’t want gun control.
They want votes.
That’s a great idea! Two votes for the price of one, so to speak.
One of the things I’ve been wanting to do is go to a shooting range. It seems like it would be a lot of fun.
You do not suck!
This was a very insightful editorial that you should submit, with TC’s edits, to USA Today or some other mass market outlet...it needs to be seen, because it is absolutely true.
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