Posted on 12/16/2012 4:01:27 AM PST by Kaslin
Ill leave it to others better suited to comment on the horror of Friday afternoon in Newtown, Conn. I am not yet a parent and would not presume to understand the emotions involved in something like this.
But on the media reaction and exploitation that followed the horrific news, I will comment.
Simply put, it was disgusting.
Ive said before how progressives will exploit anyone and anything to advance their agenda, but Id always thought there was a line, somewhere, of decency they wouldnt cross. I was wrong.
With the blood of the victims still wet, progressives began their call for gun control. They had no idea if the guns were purchased legally (they were, and stolen from the first murder victim, the killers mother), what kind of guns they were (they were pistols, not assault weapons, though a semi-automatic rifle was found, unused, in the killers car), or even if the killer was in custody or dead (there were stories of a hunt for a second shooter) before they succumbed to the siren call of their agenda.
Michael Moore, noted tragedy profiteer, took to Twitter with Only minutes away from pundits & politicians say, "This isn't the time to talk about gun control." Really? When is that moment?
A short time later he followed up with The NRA hates freedom. They don't want you to have the freedom to send your children to school & expect them to come home alive.
No fiction writer could do the sickness of that man justice.
But Moore wasnt alone, David Frum was his usual self and joined a chorus of his fellow progressives that included Piers Morgan, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and nearly the entire homepage of The Huffington Post in calling for more gun control.
Actress Rashida Jones tweeted, Gun control is our only road to freedom. Freedom from the fear of senselessly losing children. I'm so saddened. WE NEED LAWS NOW.
The stupidity of these people is self-evident. States with the most freedom to own and carry guns have the lowest crime rates. Meanwhile, cities such as Chicago, where its illegal to own a gun, have the most gun violence.
But although the side of liberty has the statistics, progressives play on emotion. Facts dont matter in a world of crying children, and progressives know it. A complicated issue is offered a simple solution that appeals to the feeling of helplessness and promises to alleviate it. Its a tactic used by despots throughout history.
Since we have a media that functions as the ground troops for the progressive movement, that they would line up to offer their megaphone surprised no one. A manufactured protest of anti-Second Amendment progressive activists that attracted only a couple-dozen people (there were more reporrters there than protesters) received more coverage from the Democratic Media Complex than all the huge Tea Party protests. The event came together as if it were an Ikea desk sitting in the corner just waiting for the opportunity to be assembled.
All three major networks ran hour-long specials Friday night reiterating the limited information they had and featuring literal guesses as to what mustve happened. Facts dont matter when trying to scare people.
The most despicable part of the media coverage was the interviews. Children as young as these vultures could find had cameras in their faces seeking any sound bite they could milk for ratings. But those children wouldnt be there were their parents not feet away giving permission and granting their own interviews about their person relief.
No one can blame a parent for an immeasurable sense of relief over finding their child unharmed, but they can be blamed for sticking themselves and their child in front of television cameras to spread that relief to a grieving community. Has the allure of fame, no matter how fleeting, overruled our sense of decency?
The president was reserved and presidential in his remarks, and the White House said this is not the time to press an agenda (well see how long that lasts). But their allies would have none of it. Progressive activists and their fellow travellers in the media have a storied history of dancing on graves to advance their agenda, but rarely have they danced so gleefully on such tiny graves yet to be dug. Time will tell which argument wins the day, but I have my suspicions. As President Obamas former chief of staff once famously said, You never want a serious crisis go to waste.
Ambulance chasing commie rat b@stards.
To call these opportunistic politicians such a thing, is only an insult to ambulance-chasing commie rat bastards! Ambulance-chasing commie rat bastards never did anything that evil.
Oh no, it needs to join up with arbeit, sharia, etc to form a superhighway.
Point taken, well said.
He will show up sunday to console and morn........AKA............fan the flames
I got accosted on Facebook by a well meaning but I think misguided soul who asked, if banning guns doesn’t stop rampages, why are there few gun rampages in highly gun phobic Europe? My impression is that partly there are more knifing problems, and partly that there is not very much news coverage afforded to events in Europe when a loon with a gun gets looney with that gun.
I live in Monroe Ct.15 Minutes from this school,I grew up in Sandy Hook. I am 62 years old,I do Printer Fax and Copier repair,this Requires me to Go Into Schools throughout Connecticut.
On Thursday I was in a Catholic elementary school of Kindergarten to 4th Grade students,what struck me as so Pleasing,as I go into Numerous Public schools,was the Numerous Crucifixes and posted on the walls that Jesus Christ Is the reason for this school.
I was escorted to the room where the printer that needed to be repaired was located and the Escort introduced me as Mr. Jeff who was going to repair their Printer and in Unison they welcomed me,Good Morning Mr. Jeff.
As I was repairing the Printer the Children Were asked to rise since they would Be Going to Lunch,they Then Recited the Hail Mary,I have to say I had Chills going through me,as I mentioned I also go into Numerous Public Schools and there Is Nothing Resembling that Behaviour in any way shape or form.
When I finished I commented to My Escort what a Pleasure it was to experience the atmosphere of their school.
Im sorry if I am Not Conveying what any Meaning this has except for the Fact I have 1 Grandaughter two and a Half Years old,being so close in Proximity to this Tragedy,we visit my wifes Cousin who lives three houses down from this school,had me in tears on Friday just Picturing those Small Children I had the Pleasure to Hear On Thursday in a similar room. God Bless those Children and the families of the Victims
Obviously you've forgotten about the recent Norwegian mass murder ... where at least three times the number that were killed in Newtown died (mostly young adults).
Correction - the MSM is the air force of evil, not he ground troops.
I call for media control and politician control.
...today watch for the well rehearsed one finger eye wipe, one and then the other, that went global for the little boy king, can’t have one eye wipe, tears flow from both....but being a narcissistic, emotions of this sort are impossible. He might even go for the bowed head thumb forefinger bridge of the nose bow in deep remorse schtick.....a perfect image to flash to the world. Camera’s ready?, flash bulbs ready?, rolling?,......ACTION!
So, did he have "ADHD?" "Asperbergers? "Personality Disorder?" "Autism Spectrum Disorder?" Child Disintegrative Disorder?"
Let's face facts: the "Mental Health" profession has no idea what it is doing. They might as well be Witch Doctors, but they charge 10,000 times as much. I, for one, and sick and tired of these charlatans who masquerade as if they were doctors of the mind the same as there are doctors of the body. The two cannot, and should not, be compared. Ever again.
Perhaps instead of guns, we should ban Divorce? I mean, it makes as much sense as what Nanny Bloomberg and Obese Nadler are saying.
Moreover, in today's America, no parent wants to label their little darlings as evil, or influenced by demonic forces. Clearly, this young man was in the clutches of evil.
Until "Mental Health Professionals" acknowledge God, the Soul, Good, and Evil - they are worse than useless. They are the part of the problem.
I we want freedom we should begin with banning public schools.
I —> Iffins
It does not matter that he had personality disorder. His mother is the one who had guns. The kid could have been clinically psychotic and still since his Mother was supposedly “sane” having a psychological test on this kid would not have changed the outcome as HIS MOTHER HAD THE GUNS!
Why did you put “sane” in quotes? I have not seen anyone suggest that she was anything but.
A ban on “assault weapons” wouldn’t have stopped this, as he didn’t use one (it was in the trunk of his car).
A ban on gun purchases wouldn’t have helped—he was already denied a gun at the store.
A ban on guns in schools didn’t help.
A ban on murder didn’t help.
I’m not sure what else there is to say. He was an evil, evil, evil SOB.
It part of the religion of State. Whereas most of us said a prayer for the souls of the lost and the solace of the living.
But the State has no heart, or soul. It merely seeks to control.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers#School_massacres
US has 5 out of the 15 listed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers:_School_massacres
US has the most incidents listed, with China not far behind.
I was wondering if population size was a factor, but then noticed India not on the list at all.
Also missing from the list were terror attacks (Chechens in Belsen, Palestinian suicide bombers, etc.)
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