By
William L. Garvin
“We must reject the idea that every
time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept
that each individual is accountable for his actions.” President Ronald Reagan
Rahm
Emmanuel, the current Democrat mayor of Chicago and prior Senior Advisor to
Bill Clinton and White House Chief of Staff to Barack Obama, once opined that “You never want a serious crisis to go to
waste.” Accordingly, politicos and
their sycophantic surrogates immediately rushed to make political hay out of
the Orlando atrocity. Their primary goal
was to obscure the truth that ISIS has not been contained and that radical
Islamic terrorism once again slashed deeply into our American psyche.
It
is abundantly clear that Islamophilia (the morbid fondness for rationalizing,
excusing, and denying the existence of Muslim extremists) is much more
prevalent than Islamophobia. Simply look
at all the rationalizations offered up for Omar Mateen’s slaughter of 49
American citizens. ACLU lawyers called
out Christians and conservatives; a Florida bishop called out the “Catholic
contempt for homosexuality”; Black Planned Parenthood activists singled out
“toxic masculinity”; the Obama administration said it was a problem of
“underfunding”; the Unitarian Universalist Association proclaimed the cause to
be “demonization of other faiths”; and the proverbial “easy access to weapons
of war.” Simultaneously, the President
and assorted minions sounded their usual clarion call for “gun control.” And
let’s not forget to blame Republicans, Trump supporters and the NRA, perpetual
liberal whipping boys. Adding Orlando to
Little Rock, Fort Hood, Boston, Moore, Oklahoma, Garland, Texas, San Bernardino
and Chattanooga will still not allow an Islamophiliac to reach the conclusion
that Mateen was a radical Muslim. On top
of that, our top cop, Attorney General Loretta Lynch initially doctored the 911
transcripts to remove the jihadist’s pledge of allegiance to ISIS!
The
Islamophiliac of the liberal left prefers to focus on the trigger rather than
the person who pulled the trigger hence their full throat baying for more gun
control. Understand that when liberals
say gun control, they really mean gun confiscation. Dylan Matthews, a writer for the liberal VOX
said: “This is not a Dems’ sales pitch
but I’m totally down with letting the prez unilaterally ban people (hopefully
everyone!) from buying guns.” Joe
Manchin, the Democrat senator from West Virginia ominously said: “Due process is what’s killing us right
now.” Bernie Sanders called for a
ban on automatic weapons, apparently unaware that machine guns and other
automatic weapons have been banned for decades.
Democratic Representative Keith Ellison posted a picture of an AR-15 and
an M-16 and asked if you could tell the difference—another case of weapons
profiling. First of all, the AR does not
stand for “assault rifle” or “automatic rifle.”
It stands for “ArmaLite Rifle,” the original developer and
manufacturer. Secondly, it was not used
as a weapon of choice in Orlando; the terrorist used a Sig Sauer MCX rifle. (
Previous weapons of choice by terrorists have been box cutters, airplanes,
pressure cookers, shoe and underwear bombs, fertilizer, knives and handguns.) Thirdly,
semi-automatic means you must pull the trigger for each round to be fired. It is physically impossible to fire “700
rounds per minute” as Florida Rep. Alan Grayson foolishly claimed. And for Rep. Ellison’s edification, an M-16
can toggle between single shot, bursts, and fully automatic; an AR-15
cannot. Fourthly, the AR-15 is not a
“high powered rifle.” It is of
intermediate strength using .223 cartridges rather than the .30-30 or .308
rounds used for hunting large game. It
has light recoil and does not “bruise shoulders,” “feel like a bazooka,” “sound
like a cannon,” or cause “temporary PTSD” as New York Daily News’ Gersh
Kuntzman foolishly wrote.
It
is an anathema as to why liberals think that taking weapons away from law
abiding citizens will increase their security.
If gun control actually worked, we would not have had the terrorist
atrocities in Paris and Brussels which are gun free countries. The FBI says they have over 1,000 active
terrorist investigations in all fifty states.
The CIA says ISIS attacks will intensify and they will infiltrate via
refugee and smuggling routes. From
2009-2014, this administration issued 832,014 green cards to people from
majority Muslim countries. Since 2015, the administration has processed 11,086
Muslim and 433 Christian refugees from Iraq and 5,435 Muslims and 28 Christians
from Syria. The administration claims
that background checks of Americans are inadequate but somehow background
checks and vetting for people with no documentation who come from countries
with no available records is reliable. In
addition, the federal government has just released 86,000 criminals from prison
who should have been deported. Buy a gun
and learn how to use it. When the prey
is armed, predators have second thoughts.
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