Were the subject not so tragic, it would be laughable to watch LameStream media types try to convey accurately details involving high-profile shootings.
Some functional gun illiterates, like the since-fired MSNBC political guy, will rush to impugn conversatives following shootings with misguided analysis such as his kneejerk speculation that Charlie Kirk might have been shot by a supporter firing a gun in celebration.
Memo to this fool should he ever again be in a position to preach to the public, the safest handlers of guns are conservatives. They do not, for example, attempt to pull street-level shootings and spray the second, third and fourth floors of nearby buildings.
I would suspect the MSNBC guy was canned as a sacrifice on the altar of public relations, and not because management really disagreed with anything he said. But, it’s a start.
We immediately heard the convenient “assault weapon” cries regarding the Kirk shooting before any details were available. Democrats were quick to rush to try to leverage the Kirk death into yet more gun control..
To borrow from one of Cackling Kamala’s favorite lines, these Gun Nazis are unburdened by the truth.
Fact: Kirk was shot with a .30-06 rifle, something millions own and would not be covered by assault weapons bans as proposed because it is bolt action, not semi-automatic, and does not have what is randomly labeled as a high-capacity magazine, defined as more than 10 rounds.
Fact: The experts were marvelling at the shooter’s prowess, as if he were some accomplished marksman. They fail to comprehend these Pennsylvania woods are full of deer hunters who could have made that shot.
Fact: The sainted 1994 assault weapons ban, at the time grandfathered in existing weapons and large magazines. This leads us toward the fatal flaw of such legislation. The gun toothpaste already is out of the tube in the U.S. and bans accomplish little to nothing. Plenty of people could have legally kept “assault weapons.” More to the point, because criminals by definition don’t obey the laws, such weapons would have been wielded with impunity by thugs, ban or no ban.
Fact: Just today (Monday) I saw an opportunistic piece about the Kirk shooting calling into question the state of Utah’s “most permissive in the country” gun legislation. Horrors, the article seemed to state, the Utah folks can openly carry weapons, even on selected public college campuses. Except . . the Kirk shooter was not carrying openly but, judging from videos since released, had the broken-down weapon jammed into his pants. I would argue that had a legally carrying gun owner seen him — the so-called good guy with a gun – Kirk might still be alive today. You will never hear that argument from LameStream media.
But, but, but, the hyperventilating gun-control types suggest we need to get rid of guns to make us all safer. This, while many high-profile types employ private security, wielding guns, to protect their hypocritical butts. I’m fairly certain a gun ban would not lead to widespread security unemployment.
If we did ban guns, would crime and public murders/assassinations disappear? In a word, no.
Did you notice the careeer criminal killing the Ukrainian woman? He stabbed her.
Knives, plus the proverbial blunt object, or hands, are weapons of opportunity for killers.
And, as far as mass killings, do you recall fertilizer and nitromethane racing fuel additive being used in part to build a truck bomb that blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 169 and injuring 685? That happened in April 1995, about seven months after the assault weapons ban was signed into law.
Fast-forward to Sept. 11, 2001, with the 10-year assault weapons ban still in place, and 2,977 perished in terror attacks using commercial airliners.
Finally, some of the highest-profile assassinations in history, were achieved without the use of “assault weapons.” Bolt-action rifles struck down President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. It was a cheap .22-caliber revolver used to slay Robert F. Kennedy.
John Lennon (.38-caliber revolver), Kennedy assassin (alleged) Lee Harvey Oswald (.38-caliber revolver),, etc., etc. etc.
Of late, we have witnessed a series of incidents here and abroad in which drivers ran autos or trucks into crowds to kill and maim.
Where are the cries to ban knives, airliners, automobiles and trucks?
There seems to be a transgender aspect to recent high-profile shootings here. Again, no cries to ban transgenderism?
Call it selective outrage. Ignore these LameStream types and their social media keyboard acolytes, for you know their agenda demands bias and precludes fair analysis.
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