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These are the sort of people whose first instinct is to ascribe political or racial motives to every crime, to prove their point about how they were right all along. Elect me.” Eric Swalwell did this immediately, of course, speaking of morons, but so did many others. So, on the basis of that, the usual morons leap in to blame the other team. It’s this: “How can I use other people’s misery to become more powerful myself?” Social media are the domain of partisans and the first question of partisan asks never changes. You owe them that.īut social media do not encourage respect. So, pause a beat before politicizing their deaths. Americans were just murdered for no reason. Now a normal person sees a tape like that and takes a breath as the tragedy of it sinks in as it should.

Here is what it looked like from the ground.ĬARLSON: Good people, terrified, bleeding, in some cases dead, on the Fourth of July. As of tonight, the authorities say seven people have died from that shooting. He scaled a fire escape ladder to the roof of a local business, and then he opened fire on a parade.ĬARLSON: So awful. And on Monday, he lived up to what everyone who knew him thought he might someday do. He is a 21-year-old amateur rapper with a long and documented history of bizarre and very threatening behavior. It happened in Highland Park, which is a pretty suburb north of Chicago and once again, the shooter was exactly the person they claimed Red Flag Laws would stop before he hurt others. Illinois is a state with Red Flag Laws, assault weapons bans, every other form of gun control that authoritarians can dream up in a country that still has the Second Amendment.īut the shooting happened anyway. In case you need still more evidence, just yesterday on the Fourth of July, there was yet another mass shooting in the State of Illinois. It had no effect, these laws, and that’s not surprising.Īsk anyone who knows anything about violence and wasn’t getting paid to lie to you about it, and you will learn the truth, which is it is almost impossible to stop someone who is dead set on harming other people. Gendron was so obviously crazy and threatening that at one point New York State Police came over and investigated him, but in the end, nothing happened. He’d already been caught by his mother killing a cat with his hands. Gendron had bragged in school, remember, that he wanted to murder large groups of people. On the day that 18-year-old Payton Gendron murdered 10 people in Buffalo, the State of New York already had a Red Flag Law and Gendron was exactly the sort of person they told us that Red Flag Laws would stop from committing mass murder. What they never mentioned was it was not only ridiculous and false, it was provably false because actually gun control does not stop bad people from using guns. That’s what they promised us and the media assured us it was true - every word of it. Once we do that, and we are doing it, mass shootings like the one we saw in Buffalo this spring will never happen again. Well, in the characteristically modest words of Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, “What we are doing will save thousands of lives.” Thousands.Īnd that makes a kind of sense because now that we’re going to have Red Flag Laws in all 50 States, laws that allow the government to disarm you by force without charging you with a crime, without bothering with due process. So, the question is, will it live up to the second half? Will it make communities safer? Emphatically yes, said Joe Biden, “It’s going to save a lot of lives.” How many lives exactly? Fashionably liberal Republicans like John Cornyn helped write it. So, you probably weren’t paying attention on June 25th when a law called the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act was signed and it, true to its name, was, in fact, bipartisan. How did you miss that? Well, you probably were distracted by all the other amazing things Joe Biden is doing, like making air travel more efficient and winning the war in Ukraine. However, he said there was a reluctance to consider a possible connection between prescription drugs and shootings like Highland Park.ĬARLSON: Amazingly, it was just over a week ago that Joe Biden singlehandedly ended gun violence in the United States. On Tuesday, FNC host Tucker Carlson opened his program with a monologue reacting to the Highland Park, IL shooting by criticizing the anticipated Democrat and media reactions.

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