“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.
And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do
things that you think you could not do before.”
~ Rahm Emanuel ~
Because progressives are always so eager to use the latest mass shooting as another opportunity to repeal the second amendment, they rarely bother to consider motivation. Saturday’s Walmart massacre in El Paso is suddenly an exception since it appears that the shooter, Patrick Crusius, was anti-immigration. Therefore leftists, in their own twisted-logic way, can shift responsibility to President Trump. (He’s actually anti-illegal immigration, but it’s a distinction lost on them.) ~
Just nineteen minutes before the first shots rang out at an El Paso Walmart in what would go on to become the deadliest mass shooting of 2019, the man responsible for the killings allegedly uploaded a twisted and seething anti-immigrant manifesto to an online forum outlining his sickening motives.
The 2,300 word screed, attributed to the author P.Crucius on one website, speaks of a perceived ‘Hispanic invasion of Texas’, a detailed plan to segregate ethnic minorities into separate territories of the country, and expresses a belief that white people will soon be ‘ethnically replaced’ […]
The manifesto, titled ‘The Inconvenient Truth’, begins declaring the imminent shooting to be inspired directly by the shootings of two mosques in Christchurch New Zealand earlier this year, which left 51 people dead.
So naturally, in the progressive mind, this one’s on Trump for taking a tough stance on illegal immigration – and of course for being racist (NOT). [And now that the Mueller collusion investigation has proven to be a total sham they’re holding onto their racist fabrication like a rabid Pit Bull.]
The Dayton lunatic wasn’t so easy to pin on the president, so the mainstreams won’t spend nearly as much time covering him ~ Dayton gunman Connor Betts described himself on social media as a pro-Satan ‘leftist’ who despised Donald Trump ~
In one message he posted on Twitter under the name “iamthespookster” Betts wrote: “I want socialism, and i’ll not wait for the idiots to finally come round to understanding.”
He also backed gun control and pointed the finger of blame towards Republicans for school shootings.
Betts wrote in December: “This is America: Guns on every corner, guns in every house, no freedom but that to kill.”
Clearly Connor Betts, who thankfully is no longer with us, was – dare we say it – nuts. Which incidentally describes all of these mass murderers. How could anyone gun down 5 -10 – 50 innocent people in cold blood and be sane?
But mentally-disturbed is too simple an explanation.
If the Left can’t directly blame the president, there’s always the guns. But what we never get from them is any sort of honest evaluation of the causes behind these tragedies.
For instance, if the mainstream media actually did their job, they would discover that nearly all mass shooters have been young men alienated from society. This is from a Wall Street Journal op/ed, the majority of which is behind their paywall, but the intro sufficiently makes the point:
The mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton over the weekend are horrifying assaults on peaceful communities by disturbed young men. American politics will try to simplify these events into a debate about guns or political rhetoric, but the common theme of these killings is the social alienation of young men that will be harder to address.
One response to reject is the reflex to blame these shootings on political opponents. Before noon on Sunday we received an email from the Progressive Democrats of America declaring that “we blame President Trump for feeding into the anti-immigrant frenzy and white supremacist violence. Yes, you Mr. President had your finger on that AK-47.”
This is political cynicism. Mass shootings also occurred under Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton. They occur around the world, if much less frequently, such as in Christchurch, New Zealand (2019), Australia (2019), and Norway (2011). The twisted motivations are varied and often too convoluted to sort into any clear ideology.
Take the El Paso shooter, who is suspected of writing a manifesto posted on the 8chan website before the rampage. He expressed sympathy for the racial motivations of the Christchurch killer and denounced Hispanic immigration, but he also raged against “unchecked corporations” who support immigration and pollute the land.
In the wake of the May 31st Virginia Beach shooting, Dennis Prager offered his thoughts on the causes behind these horrific crimes ~ Why So Many Mass Shootings? Ask the Right Questions and You Might Find Out ~
Liberals (in this regard, liberals’ views are essentially as the same as leftists’) are virtually united in ascribing these shootings to guns. Just this past weekend (June 1-2), in a speech in Brazil, former President Barack Obama told an audience:
“Our gun laws in the United States don’t make much sense. Anybody can buy any weapon any time — without much, if any, regulation. They can buy (guns) over the internet. They can buy machine guns.”
That the former president fabricated a series of falsehoods about the United States — and maligned, on foreign soil, the country that twice elected him president — speaks to his character and to the character of the American news media that have been completely silent about these falsehoods. But the main point here is that, like other liberals and leftists, when Obama addresses the subject of mass shootings — in Brazil, he had been talking about the children murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 — he talks about guns.
Yet, America had plenty of guns when its mass murder rate was much lower […]
Given the same ubiquity of guns, wouldn’t the most productive question be what, if anything, has changed since the 1960s and ’70s? Of course it would. And a great deal has changed. America is much more ethnically diverse, much less religious. Boys have far fewer male role models in their lives. Fewer men marry, and normal boy behavior is largely held in contempt by their feminist teachers, principals and therapists. Do any or all of those factors matter more than the availability of guns?
Let’s briefly investigate each factor.
Regarding ethnic diversity, the countries that not only have the fewest mass murders but the lowest homicide rates as well are the least ethnically diverse — such as Japan and nearly all European countries. So, too, the American states that have homicide rates as low as Western European countries are the least ethnically and racially diverse (the four lowest are New Hampshire, North Dakota, Maine and Idaho). Now, America, being the most ethnically and racially diverse country in the world, could still have low homicide rates if a) Americans were Americanized, but the left has hyphenated — Balkanized, if you will — Americans, and b) most black males grew up with fathers.
Regarding religiosity, the left welcomes — indeed, seeks — the end of Christianity in America (though not of Islam, whose robustness it fosters). Why don’t we ask a simple question: What percentage of American murderers attend church each week?
Regarding boys’ need for fathers, in 2008, then-Sen. Obama told an audience: “Children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools; and 20 times more likely to end up in prison.”
Yet, the New York Times has published columns and “studies” showing how relatively unimportant fathers are, and more and more educated women believe this dangerous nonsense.
Then there is marriage: Nearly all men who murder are single. And their number is increasing.
Finally, since the 1960s, we have been living in a culture of grievance. Whereas in the past people generally understood that life is hard and/or they have to work on themselves to improve their lives, for half a century, the left has drummed into Americans’ minds the belief that their difficulties are caused by American society — in particular, its sexism, racism and patriarchy. And the more aggrieved people are the more dulled their consciences.
When you don’t ask intelligent questions, you cannot come up with intelligent answers. So, then, with regard to murder in America, until Americans stop allowing the left to ask the questions, we will have no intelligent answers.
If our leftist friends actually cared about preventing more of these mass murders they would make a sincere effort to understand contributing factors and work to help heal our society. Instead, they callously take advantage these tragedies to foment division, to drive a wedge into the heart of America, caring only about winning the next election.
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste…”
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