Behold the hypocrisy of left-wing politicians and their lapdog media members as they react to a pair of mass shootings in recent weeks.
Both of these pathetically flawed groups rushed to highlight that the man identified as the Atlanta shooter was white and a Southern Baptist, and obviously hated Asians.
Robert Aaron Long, the alleged Georgia killer, is reported to have told police he is addicted to sex and killed to remove temptation. The man appears to be mentally troubled.
Yet those pushing an agenda kept hammering on his race, his religion, and the fact his victims were mostly Asians and/or women.
In Colorado earlier this week, 10 people were killed and information on the alleged shooter has been slow to leak out. But that didn’t prevent an all-star cast of bigots from rushing to social media outlets to proclaim it was yet more violence from an angry white man.
Among that group was the niece of Kamala Harris, our de facto president as Joe Biden totters toward complete incoherence.
“Violent white men are the greatest terrorist threat in our country,” read a tweet from the Harris niece, as reported in the New York Post and elsewhere.
But wait, according to court records the man charged with the Colorado mass killing is Syrian-born, and named Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa.
Whoops. Not white.
Meena Harris, the misinformed niece whose previous claim to fame was helping spearhead the movement to get Dr. Seuss books canceled for alleged racism, did the only right thing and deleted her erroneous tweet, then gave a half-baked, doubly lame rationalization.
Meena (Mean?) “made an assumption” she said, because the man was taken alive and the majority of mass shootings in the U.S. are by white men. You read it right, he could only be a mass shooter and alive because he’s white.
No need to wait for the facts when some good, old race baiting and virtue signaling can be put out to the masses, right Meena?
Politicians predictably rushed to the nearest microphone to proclaim the need for more stringent gun laws. The problem is, according to various relatives of the Colorado shooter, interviewed by various organizations, the man had serious mental problems.
Maybe we should tighten up those commitment laws. Just a thought here.
And the alleged shooter had been convicted of misdemeanor assault in high school. Nothing to see here. Keep moving.
Even more insidious than the politicians capitalizing on yet another tragedy to push an anti-constitutional agenda, is the way the news media acted in concert to ignore vital facts that were deemed essential in the reporting of the Georgia shooting.
The Colorado shooter had posted on social media about his hatred for President Trump. Guess that makes the guy a Biden supporter, but that has not been mentioned prominently by what passes for most mainstream media. Or maybe he felt the Bern.
Similarly, judging from reports of social media posts, the guy appears to be a follower of Islam. Again, no need to point out that religious tidbit. It’s not like he’s a Southern Baptist, after all.
And I think of George W. Bush, in the wake of Islamists piloting planes into the World Trade Center and The Pentagon, with his cloying repetition of his pet phrase “Islam is the religion of peace.”
Maybe Biden should get his handlers to include “Southern Baptist is the religion of peace” in his next thousand or so speeches.
Or maybe some of the biggest offenders in terms of politicizing and pontificating should get a grip on their emotions and have a quick re-introduction with facts.
Start with this basic truth: About two-thirds of the gun deaths annually in the United States are suicides. People don’t kill themselves with “assault rifles.”
Even if there were no guns, people would continue to commit suicide unless we outlawed tall buildings, bridges, potentially lethal prescription drugs, ropes and even the combination of water and electrical appliances.
The 32 dead in the 2007 Virginia Tech mass shooting, at the hands of a man of South Korean descent by the way, similarly wouldn’t have benefited from a ban on “assault weapons.” That shooter used two semi-automatic handguns.
Cars and trucks have been driven into crowds to kill masses. Don’t forget flying airplanes into buildings (having taken over those planes using box cutters as weapons) or packing explosives into a vehicle to take down buildings.
Banning cars, trucks, fertilizer, box cutters and diesel oil won’t address the problem.
What we have in this country is an insanity crisis. It is a crisis not just among those who would commit such atrocities, but also among those who would seek to use the tragedies in the most cynical way possible to advance their assaults on our rights.
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