First of all, allow me to second Mr. Gibbs's remarks from this morning on the Emanuel AME Church massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, last night. Secondly, allow me to observe that the Left finally has the propaganda cudgel they've been waiting for - a white, Aryan looking young man mowing down a church full of black worshippers, including the pastor, which could just as easily be described as an anti-Christian atrocity, but of course never will be - with which to stampede the country towards gun control, re-inflame "white guilt," smear conservatives nationwide with the "collective responsibility" for it, and at the very least, stoke up Barack Obama's long sought race war even hotter.
On which he is not wasting any time:
We don’t have all the facts....
In which case, shut the hell up until you do.
....but we do know that once again innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun.
Dylann Roof didn't "get his hands on a gun". It was legally purchased by his father as a twenty-first birthday present for a young man who is described as a "loner" and gave every appearance of being a loser as well, but had displayed no outward signs of being an aspiring Terminator, either.
Now is the time for mourning and for healing.
Which lasts all the way to his very next sentence.
But let’s be clear, at some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency.
Other than Britain, in the wake of its imposition of suffocating gun control laws, Denmark, France, and most other European countries where even the cops have been largely disarmed.
And it is in our power to do something about it.
Yeah, like arm church-goers. Which O would probably find outrageous, even though "hard" targets don't suffer these sorts of attacks.
I say that recognizing the politics in this town foreclose a lot of those avenues right now.
Republicans were Mr. Roof's accomplices.
But it would be wrong for us not to acknowledge it. And at some point it’s going to be important for the American people to come to grips with it.
"Start turning in guns immediately or we really will pry them out of your cold, dead hands."
Point to ponder: Hard not to notice the common thread of Islamic Fundamentalism in the above recounting. Pity Mr. Roof didn't join forces with Elton Simpson instead.
UPDATE: My, but Mr. Roof is becoming more and more useful to all the wrong people.
First, it is confirmed, he is a white supremacist....:
Dylann Roof, the alleged gunman authorities say is responsible for killing nine people in a predominantly black Charleston, South Carolina, church Wednesday night, had been “planning something like that for six months,” according to his roommate.
Dalton Tyler, who said he has known Roof for seven months to one year, said he saw the white, twenty-one-year-old suspect just last week.
“He was big into segregation and other stuff,” Tyler said. “He said he wanted to start a civil war. He said he was going to do something like that and then kill himself.” [emphases added]
Splendid. <sigh>
And he was, indeed, an aspiring domestic terrorist:
On February 28th, he was arrested for drug possession at a Columbia mall, where the report said he was wearing all black and rattling employees at two stores with unusual questions about staffing and operating hours…
[An employee at a shop at the mall] said he wasn’t interested in merchandise but asked sales associates about the mall hours and how many people were in the mall when it closed. “It was a bunch of strange things you would not expect,” she said. “It did make us uncomfortable.”
A few days later, a security guard dropped off a flier with the mall’s tenants displaying Mr. Roof’s picture, she said. They were to be on alert and call security if they saw him in the mall again.
Welcome to the media-imposed face of the Republican Party for the next sixteen months and change, ladies and gentlemen. By the time this presidential cycle is over, you'll know Dylann Roof's face better than you do those of your own children.
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