So, riddle me this, “What's the only thing faster
than a speeding bullet?” And while I am
not referring to any superhero, what I am referring to is the willingness, or
dare I say eagerness, of supposed journalists to jump the ‘gun’ (no pun
intended) and begin to assign blame before knowing any of the facts. Here we have yet another instance where our state-controlled
media demonstrated an affection for committing journalistic malpractice as they
sought to report on what they assumed to be another mass shooting, choosing to
rely on early, and what would prove to be highly inaccurate, information. And in so doing national outlets reported
that a shooter was loose on campus at Ohio State. In reality, 18-year old Abdul Razak Ali Artan
attacked and injured 11 students using both a butcher knife and his Honda
Civic.
But rather than to waste time waiting for all the
facts to be known before rushing to judgement, as is usually the case, members
of our esteemed state-controlled media quickly jumped into action and typed up
who it was that they perceived as being the obvious villain here. And that was, of course, firearms owners and
organizations like the NRA who oppose increased gun regulation. And it was even before first responders had
sounded the all clear that Vox had labeled the ambush "the Ohio State
shooting." Yahoo News took the next
step, reporting that the attack "spurs a look at Ohio gun laws." And pundits all across the Twittersphere
blamed the American gun culture for yet another mass shooting that had never
happened. This is what my dear old Dad
used to call, “Shooting from the hip.”
And then when Ohio Gov. John Kasich tweeted that
"our hearts and prayers go out to the Ohio State University," it was a
rather snarky Cosmo editor, Amy Odell, who apparently thought it would be a
good idea to take a completely unnecessary potshot at the Republican. And so it was this genius that replied,
"Well, now's a good time to review your stance on gun control." Now as it just so happens it turns out that
one person actually did have a firearm on campus on Monday, it just wasn't the
attacker. It was Officer Alan Horujko,
the guy who shot Artan bring to an ended his terrorist rampage. Ultimately, it was the good guy with a gun who
stopped the bad guy armed with a butcher knife.
In the process, he saved countless students from harm. But that wasn't enough to slow anti-gun
hysteria.
And in what I guess was an attempt at being clever,
Dan Gross, the president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence,
remarked, "Thank God he didn't have a gun." Atta boy Dan, you’re a genuine douche
bag! And it was before that we heard
from Adam Feldman of, where else but, the New York Times who actually gave
thanks that eight still-recovering students had ‘only been hacked with a
butcher's cleaver’. This moron, Feldman,
tweeted, "What's happened at Ohio State is terrible." And then added, "But 'mass stabber
leaves 8 people with non-life-threatening injuries' is why gun control
matters." Huh? I guess that’s what must be commonly referred
to as being ‘Liberal Logic?’ Because
that idiotic statement makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. And who but a liberal thinks this way?
The actual crime data, which proves false any
relationship between gun ownership and gun crime, rarely makes the nightly
news. It’s only when a story bleeds, and
fits an anti-gun narrative, does it ever lead. That's a problem because it
deliberately misleads the electorate. Of
course mistakes do happen in journalism. The industry has an entire orthodoxy
and doctrine on corrections and retractions.
But after Monday’s attack it's clear that many in the media were far
more interested in advancing a narrative than they were in reporting on what
actually happened. Why else would Vox
have an entire section about mass shootings locked and loaded on their front
page hours after the attack? Because they
let their bias overshadow the facts. But
this time they got burned, and rather badly.
And based on their reading early and inaccurate
reports, two Democrat senators doubled down on their calls for more gun
control. Chris Murphy complained that
after the Ohio State shooting there had been one attack per week. Once it was clear a gun had not been used,
Murphy was quick to delete his tweet.
And it was Timmy Kaine who also leapt to Twitter minutes after the
attack was reported in an attempt to turn the attack into a discussion on gun
control by tweeting out a message reading, “Deeply saddened by the senseless
act of gun violence at Ohio State this morning. Praying for the injured and the
entire Buckeye community.” But he
earned for himself a little embarrassment when, a few hours later, it was revealed
that the attacker used a car and a knife, but no gun.
Both of these stellar Democrats are avid supporters
of increased gun control, so therefore their knee jerk response to this tragedy
should come as no surprise. And, you
know, all they really succeeded in doing was to make themselves appear as a
couple of spineless political opportunists.
And Twitter users were just as quick to take failed Democrat vice
presidential candidate Kaine to task for politicizing the attack before he had
any of the facts at hand. Some accused
him of trying to use a crime to push his anti-gun agenda, while others pointed
out how during the recent presidential campaign Timmy and Hitlery both had
claimed Trump was unfit because he often spoke without knowing the facts. But the voters let it be known who it was
that THEY thought was unfit, and it appears the voters were right.
One response to Timmy’s idiotic Tweet said, “The
only guns used were by the police. Try and confirm before you politicize.” And another said, “You criticized Trump for
making statements before receiving all the facts. News just confirmed killer
used car and knife. No gun.” And still
another said, “Deeply saddened by your senseless statement on gun violence in
response to a knife attack by a Somali suspect.” And about two hours later, Timmy tweeted a
second message reading, “Updated reports say attacker used a vehicle &
knife. Horrifying & senseless. Relieved the scene is secure & praying
for victims’ recovery.” Perhaps Timmy
should have waited just a bit to hear more of the facts before shooting off his
big fat mouth. In doing what he did he
only came across as being someone who can’t be trusted to tell the truth.
And have you ever noticed how it is that Democrats,
and right down to the very last one, seem to be completely unable to differentiate
between an attack by someone who identifies himself, or in some cases herself,
as a soldier of Allah (terrorism) and an attack perpetrated by some generic,
and usually a liberal, nutball. It seems
as if their first response is always to blame guns, as well as law abiding gun
owners, for all society’s ills or to whine about how it was that the majority
of Americans simply don’t buy into their propaganda that stricter gun laws
would fix everything. And maybe if
Hitlery had not been the worst corrupt candidate to ever run for president,
Timmy might have actually received the level of scrutiny that he deserved for
being such a leftist douchebag.
And you know, with the current state of the Democrat
Party being what it is, I wouldn’t be the least surprised to see this halfwit,
Timmy, trying to make a run for President on his own come 2020. And to think that this guy could very well
have been our vice president, and possibly even our president had Hitlery won
and then gone on to croak while still in office is a pretty scary thought. But luckily for us God was still watching out
for our country and thankfully he had not yet chosen to abandon us and
therefore allowed us, recounts notwithstanding, to dodge a rather sizable
bullet that was headed right between our eyes.
Our country would have never survived a Hiterly presidency and God, in
his infinite wisdom, knew that. But what
this latest tragedy makes clear is that we believe the Democrats and the media
at our own peril.
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