The masks are coming off.
Posted on 06/28/2015 9:43:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Who says things can’t change in politics? We just learned, again, that they can — and fast! Ten days ago, you couldn’t find a politician in the South who had anything bad to say about the Confederate battle flag. Today, they’re tripping all over themselves to get rid of it.
To their credit, Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush led the pack. Bush pointed out that as governor of Florida, he’d given orders to take down the flag and consign it to a museum. Calling it a “symbol of racial hatred,” Romney tweeted that South Carolina should remove the flag from the grounds of its state Capitol. Both provided a stark contrast to presidential hopefuls Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Scott Walker and Lindsey Graham, who initially waffled on the flag question.
Then South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley stepped up to the plate. For the last five years, she’d walked away from any debate over the flag, but suddenly she, too, got religion, pulling together all of the Palmetto State’s Republican and Democratic leaders in a dramatic show of unity, demanding that the state legislature take down the Confederate flag. At which point even Rubio, Cruz, Walker and Graham clambered on board.
Overnight, Haley’s initiative sparked an avalanche of efforts nationwide to eradicate almost all traces of the Confederacy. The South Carolina House voted 103-10 to open debate on taking down the flag. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley beat them to the punch. He simply gave orders to take the flag down from state Capitol grounds immediately. In Mississippi, the Republican speaker of the House called for removing the Confederate battle cross from the upper-left-hand corner of the state flag. And when Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced that he was ending the sale of license plates bearing the Confederate flag, political leaders in Maryland, North Carolina and Tennessee made the same call.
It wasn’t just the flag that fell. In Tennessee, politicians of both parties called for removing a statue of Confederate general and KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest from the state Capitol. Even more dramatically, in Kentucky, both the Democratic and Republican candidates for governor announced their support for moving the statue of Jefferson Davis, long-revered president of the Confederate states, out of the Capitol building.
And politicians weren’t the only ones to act. With one voice, major retailers — including Amazon, Wal-Mart, eBay, Sears and Target — announced they would remove all Confederate paraphernalia from their shelves. Valley Forge Flag Co. and Elder Flag Manufacturing Co. said they’d no longer manufacture the Confederate flag. Pretty soon, you’ll find few traces of the Confederacy left.
It’s tragic that it took the murders of nine Charleston churchgoers to bring people to their senses. Nevertheless, it’s still good to see that we, as a nation, are burying the Confederate flag once and for all. There’s only one problem: Nine beautiful people at Charleston’s Mother Emmanuel Church were not killed with a Confederate flag. They were killed with a gun. And not just any gun. A Glock .45, a semiautomatic pistol designed specifically for use by police and the military. A gun which no civilian has any business owning — but which Dylann Roof, as twisted as he was, as full of hatred as he was, was able to walk into a gun store and buy. No questions asked.
And yet, with all the talk about the Confederate flag, there’s zero talk about guns. What a contrast with the response to the massacre of 20 first-graders and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. In the immediate wake of the Charleston shootings, even from the most outspoken proponents of sensible gun safety legislation in the Senate — Sens. Chuck Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, Joe Manchin, Pat Toomey — there was radio silence on guns. And in his first response to the tragedy at Charleston, President Obama appeared to wave the white flag on gun control. No attack on the NRA. No challenge to Congress. No call for action. Instead, on gun safety, saying only: “At some point, it’s going to be important for the American people to come to grips with it.” At some point? Whatever happened to “the fierce urgency of now?”
So, yes, let’s agree that the Confederate flag is no flag of honor. As the symbol of racial hatred and treason, it should be taken down and locked away. But that’s not enough. There’s one even more urgent priority. First, take care of the flag. Then, take care of the guns.
The masks are coming off.
I am so glad I withheld my vote from that white and delightsome descendant from a Mexican chicken ranch. I look forward to withholding any support from that refried manteca, Bush 2.5.
The next thing for this Court is to find that there is no constitutional right for individual gun ownership. This is coming by December.
This HAS to be satire. Right?
If it wasn’t someone like Bill Press, you might think so.
I guess West Virginia will have to tear down all of their monuments in the name of KKK Sen. Robert Byrd.
Is it a coincidence that just when our government takes a fascistic turn, they want us to give up guns?
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against an Army.....?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2312894/posts
able to walk into a gun store and buy. No questions asked.
It’s obvious Mr.Press has never bought a gun from a
dealer or he’d know that there are a LOT of questions
to be answered before purchasing a firearm, and that
lying on them is a Federal charge.
Bill, come back when you know whereof you speak.
“a GLOCK 45...a gun designed specifically for the military and the police”...HUH?,,,”that no civilian needs to own”...HUH? . I actually saw a column by some left loon saying that the shooter “really wanted to buy an AR 15, but couldn’t afford it”. They were praying he used an “assault” rifle. Lunatics
yes. it has happened here. the southern states that seceded in 1860/1861 had an armed citizenry.
Lincoln signed the 1st Confiscation Act in 1861 that gave the federal government the right to confiscate weapons from any and all persons who may have the intent to rebel. i’m not sure if it ever was enforced, but Lincoln did sign it and it did help fan the flames of rebellion... as well it should have!
Wait - there’s a sound. It’s the sound of thousands of bolts slamming home all over America.
people should really see this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-taU9d26wT4
we are living in a police state. post Katrina, the local police in NO illegally confiscated guns from citizens, often using force to do so.
these police are the brownshirts that will gladly enslave this nation if told to do so by the governing elite.
I lived in California decades ago.
This moonbat Bill Press did commentary on a local Los Angeles television station back in those days.
Bill Press was a leftwing ahole back then and he is a leftwing ahole today.
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