You get the idea.
That might be the beginning of a stand-up act bya conservative comic, a tryout anyway, in a provincial city, but these are the days we are living in—more insane by the minute.
It is, however, the very moment we must stand up for the Second Amendment more than ever.
Liberals pooh-pooh this idea, of course. The state is great thing to them—it’s “progressive”—especially when it’s on their side.
Some say that prefigured the Holocaust only a few years off (others debate this—don’t they always?) But it’s hard to say why disarming people wouldn’t make it easier to load them in railroad cars.
But closer to home, I’ve always wondered why Chicago, with some of the most stringent gun laws in the country, almost always has the most gun violence. Their homicide rate skyrocketed in 2020 with 769 deaths. (I could give reasons, like the decline of the family, but I will let that pass for now.)
Similarly, Paris, with even more stringent gun laws, has had yet more calamitous attacks, including on the offices of the newspaper Charlie Hebdo and the 2015 Bataclan Theater massacre when 130 people were killed and and a staggering 416 more injured.
Of course, those were jihadists. That never happens in the United States…. Oh, wait.
Well, it never happens if you hide when it does as quickly as possible. And, of course, it depends on what your definition of a jihadist is. But if you, as in the case of Boulder mass murderer Ahmad Al-Issa, quickly insist this is entirely a mental health issue, I have a question to ask.
Do you think ISIS is entirely sane when they behead innocent people, put their severed heads on sticks and parade them on television? I hope that’s not sane, because otherwise I don’t know what the definition is.
At the same time, careerist politicians like our vice president will continue to claim the Atlanta killings were racist acts when everyone personally involved so far insists Robert Long was motivated by shame for his sexual addiction.
By calling this racism is Ms. Harris looking to gin up the Asian American vote, a significant amount of which was lost to Trump the last go-round?.… How could you say such a thing, Simon?
Because that’s what they do. Political pro Dick Morris said much the same on Greg Kelly’s Newsmax show last night.
What we should do to minimize these tragedies is examine the causes and try to intervene before these people can act.
This is not easy for a variety of reasons, but plenty of clues hide in plain sight, the most obvious place being social media, even when, actually especially when, pages are taken down by the likes of Mark Zuckerberg for reasons that are unclear but suspicious.
Mr. Zuckerberg, or whoever might be instructing him in this regard, doesn’t believe the public has a right to know what the perpetrator of acts like this said and thought. We, the great unwashed, must be shielded from information we could’ve looked at with impunity the day before, had we known about it.
Maybe we should ban Facebook instead of guns.
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