Posted on 10/03/2017 9:29:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
If only Stephen Paddock had been a Muslim … If only he had shouted “Allahu akbar” before he opened fire on all those concertgoers in Las Vegas … If only he were a member of ISIS … If only we had a picture of him posing with a Quran in one hand and his semiautomatic rifle in another …
If all of that had happened, no one would be telling us not to dishonor the victims and “politicize” Paddock’s mass murder by talking about preventive remedies.
No, no, no. Then we know what we’d be doing. We’d be scheduling immediate hearings in Congress about the worst domestic terrorism event since 9/11. Then Donald Trump would be tweeting every hour “I told you so,” as he does minutes after every terror attack in Europe, precisely to immediately politicize them.
What happens when the killer was only a disturbed American armed to the teeth with military-style weapons that he bought legally or acquired easily because of us and our crazy lax gun laws?
What to do?
Forget about persuading legislators. They are not confused or under-informed. They are either bought or intimidated. Because no honest and decent American lawmaker would look at Las Vegas and Puerto Rico today and say, “I think the smartest and most prudent thing to do for our kids is to just do nothing.”
So there is only one remedy: Get power. And the first chance we have to change the balance of power is the 2018 midterm elections. Forget about trying to get anything done before then. Don’t waste your breath.
Just get power. Start now.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Would this bloviating dirtbag please just go away already!
Islam? You must have meant ISIS?
They are full of rhymes with "hit".
AND YOU DUMB$$ES WOULD BE TRYING TO IGNORE THOSE FACTS
...And telling us not to judge all muslims by one guy
But in this case you DO want to judge all gun users by one guy.
If Nazism still controlled Germany and if the Third Reich were still going around attacking other nations it would be quite reasonable, and not a partisan political position to blame Nazism in the wake of any occasional Nazi attack reached our shores. Or would any disagree?
So when Islam, being responsible for thousands and thousands of attacks on innocents all over the world sometimes attacks us here, it ought not be the least bit partisan or political to blame Islam....but this gentleman seems to feel that it is. But why would this be different? Or does the gentleman not think we ought to have blamed Nazism in the first case?
Instead, the gentleman compares blaming Islam in the wake of such an attack to blaming the laxness of laws about possessions of weapons....and wonders why we are disgusted at somebody leaping to gun policy while we waste no time in condemning an ideology that promotes killing innocent people....uhm...well the opinion that guns should be more available is actually not the same thing (except in the minds of excitable people like our fine gentleman) as promoting the killing of innocent people. Many who want laxer weapon laws think it might make people safer on average because armed law abiding citizens may shoot back, or even discourage such attacks in the first place. Even if such people are mistaken, it is grossly unfair to compare them to people that actually want innocent people to die.
But these moral and intellectual considerations seem beyond the grasp of the respectable gentleman.
Dems won’t stop until they, like their communist forbears, take everyone’s guns away.
They are totalitarians.
The Orlando shooter was. Didn't make a difference for your gun control agenda.
This headline tells me hen probably was and they’re trying to discount thenpissibility in everyone’s minds.
Paddock wasn’t a member of the NRA was he?
I wonder if they frequented a Mosque near their home.
My pure guess would be that they were together driven by that especially toxic modern mix of Marxism and Islam driving the modern left.
Two totalitarian ideologies making strange bed mates.
Friedman is an a$$hoe. Always has been.
Girlfriend is a person of interest. She’s from the Philippines which a problem with Muslims.
Yes, ISIS made the claim. Excuse me, I have had a long week, and it’s not even Thursday yet....lol
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