Since the Charleston massacre, the Democrats have fixated on two things, neither or which have much to do with what happened. First, there have been cries about the need for stronger gun control laws. President Obama began the push for gun control even as the casualties were being taken from the church. Since then, the wave he began has spread so that now all manner of Democrats have been speaking out on the subject. Of course, the problem with all that talk is that none of the stronger gun control measures that any of them are pushing would have prevented what transpired in that church in Charleston. Martin O'Malley wants to ban assault weapons; the shooter in South Carolina used a hand gun which would be unaffected. Others want to have stronger licensing and purchasing rules. That might affect somebody who went out to buy a gun so that he or she could use it immediately; Dylan Roof used a gun he bought legally months ago. In short, the left has a solution that it pushes which would solve nothing, but it gives them something to say that their base likes.
The second cry from the Democrats has been to take down the Confederate flag that flies in South Carolina at the Civil War memorial. There are some pictures of the church shooter holding a Confederate flag and others of him standing or burning a US flag. Again, does any sane person think that taking down the Stars and Bars at the memorial would have prevented what happened at that church? It's another of the left's solutions in search of a problem. Personally, I don't see the reason why the Confederate flag needs to fly over the memorial. I understand that many South Carolinians gave their lives in the Civil War for that flag, but that does not require that the flag fly today. There are no memorials in Germany flying a Nazi Swastika. The Russian memorials to the dead of World War II don't fly the Soviet flag; nor do the memorials to the dead of World War I fly the Czarist flag. The fallen can be honored without the flag. But so what? The entire screaming session on the left today about that flag is just nonsense designed so that they can look like they are doing something. They don't care that the result will be meaningless; it won't change the past and it won't prevent a recurrence in the future. It's just pure photo-op stuff.
The second cry from the Democrats has been to take down the Confederate flag that flies in South Carolina at the Civil War memorial. There are some pictures of the church shooter holding a Confederate flag and others of him standing or burning a US flag. Again, does any sane person think that taking down the Stars and Bars at the memorial would have prevented what happened at that church? It's another of the left's solutions in search of a problem. Personally, I don't see the reason why the Confederate flag needs to fly over the memorial. I understand that many South Carolinians gave their lives in the Civil War for that flag, but that does not require that the flag fly today. There are no memorials in Germany flying a Nazi Swastika. The Russian memorials to the dead of World War II don't fly the Soviet flag; nor do the memorials to the dead of World War I fly the Czarist flag. The fallen can be honored without the flag. But so what? The entire screaming session on the left today about that flag is just nonsense designed so that they can look like they are doing something. They don't care that the result will be meaningless; it won't change the past and it won't prevent a recurrence in the future. It's just pure photo-op stuff.
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