Right now, we know that Sayeed Farook and his wife shot up a holiday party in San Bernadino yesterday. The victims were co-workers of Farook's. Farook used pistols and rifles (or "long guns" as the initial reports put it) for their attack. More people died in this attack than in any event in the USA since the shooting in Newtown, CT.
The initial response to the shooting was predictable. There was a massive police presence at the scene. The survivors in the building were carefully brought to safety by the police, and the wounded were taken to hospitals. A massive investigation was started with involvement of not just police, but also the FBI and ATF. Then there was the other part of the initial response. Within an hour of the attack and before we were even certain that it had ended, president Obama issued another call for gun control legislation through CBS News. Hillary Clinton tweeted out her comments: also a call for gun control. Various Republicans called for prayers for the victims and they were mocked and blasted by Democrats and many in media for asking God's help at that moment. The New York Daily News used the headline "God Isn't Fixing This". But it was not just the media. My own senator, Chris Murphy, let loose with a tirade against the meaninglessness of good wishes and prayer for the victims and their families. Murphy also called for gun control, and that was still at a point when we did not even know the name of the perpetrators of the attack. So without knowing anything about the attack other than the location and that there were dead who were shot, the media and the Democrats were issuing the standard calls for gun control. They are devotees of Rahm Emanuel's dictim: "Never let a crisis go to waste." We got gun control and attacks on Republicans. For Democrats, that's like hitting the Daily Double.
Then more facts came in. In the next twelve hours we learned: 1) The attackers wore body armor and had military gear on. 2) The police got a tip and checked out the home of Sayeed Farook and saw the black SUV that the attackers had used to flee the scene. 3) The SUV started driving away from the home and the police gave chase. As the police followed the SUV, the attackers opened fire on police. During the ensuing shoot out on the highway, both attackers were killed. 4) Examination of the home of Sayeed Farook and also of the SUV revealed that Farook had a bag filled with bombs and had a bomb factory in his home. 5) Bombs were also found and removed by the bomb squad from the location of the initial attack where so many were shot.
What all this means is that the attack by Farook and his wife was premeditated. One does not build multiple pipe bombs, don body armor and gather large amounts of weapons an other ammunition in fifteen minutes because of some slight at work. It tooks weeks or months for Farook and wife to get all this stuff prepared. So we have a man described by his father as a "devout Moslem" and his wife who prepared for a long time to carry out attacks with bombs and guns. It's radical Islamic terrorism. It's not "workplace violence".
I'm looking for the retraction by president Obama, Hillary Clinton or even a moron like Chris Murphy of their portrayals of the attack as just another bit of gun violence that can be cured by gun control. There is no retraction.
We need to stop jumping to conclusions as these events unfold. The truth is that gun control legislation would not have made any difference in this attack. Farook was an American citizen with no known connection to terrorism. He had none of the characteristics that might have prevented him from purchasing guns. In other words, Farook was a home-grown terrorist who could have gotten guns even with the "common sense gun safety laws" that Obama is always talking about.
Last week, we had the shooting at Planned Parenthood in Colorado. There too, we watched the same people jump to conclusions about the motives of the shooter. Even today we still are not sure of what those motives were.
If we are ever to stop these attacks from recurring, we need to give up preconceived ideas about what is actually happening. Obama, Clinton and the Democrat/media cabal need to realize that not everything fits into their gun control matrix that they use in every shooting no matter the circumstances.
The initial response to the shooting was predictable. There was a massive police presence at the scene. The survivors in the building were carefully brought to safety by the police, and the wounded were taken to hospitals. A massive investigation was started with involvement of not just police, but also the FBI and ATF. Then there was the other part of the initial response. Within an hour of the attack and before we were even certain that it had ended, president Obama issued another call for gun control legislation through CBS News. Hillary Clinton tweeted out her comments: also a call for gun control. Various Republicans called for prayers for the victims and they were mocked and blasted by Democrats and many in media for asking God's help at that moment. The New York Daily News used the headline "God Isn't Fixing This". But it was not just the media. My own senator, Chris Murphy, let loose with a tirade against the meaninglessness of good wishes and prayer for the victims and their families. Murphy also called for gun control, and that was still at a point when we did not even know the name of the perpetrators of the attack. So without knowing anything about the attack other than the location and that there were dead who were shot, the media and the Democrats were issuing the standard calls for gun control. They are devotees of Rahm Emanuel's dictim: "Never let a crisis go to waste." We got gun control and attacks on Republicans. For Democrats, that's like hitting the Daily Double.
Then more facts came in. In the next twelve hours we learned: 1) The attackers wore body armor and had military gear on. 2) The police got a tip and checked out the home of Sayeed Farook and saw the black SUV that the attackers had used to flee the scene. 3) The SUV started driving away from the home and the police gave chase. As the police followed the SUV, the attackers opened fire on police. During the ensuing shoot out on the highway, both attackers were killed. 4) Examination of the home of Sayeed Farook and also of the SUV revealed that Farook had a bag filled with bombs and had a bomb factory in his home. 5) Bombs were also found and removed by the bomb squad from the location of the initial attack where so many were shot.
What all this means is that the attack by Farook and his wife was premeditated. One does not build multiple pipe bombs, don body armor and gather large amounts of weapons an other ammunition in fifteen minutes because of some slight at work. It tooks weeks or months for Farook and wife to get all this stuff prepared. So we have a man described by his father as a "devout Moslem" and his wife who prepared for a long time to carry out attacks with bombs and guns. It's radical Islamic terrorism. It's not "workplace violence".
I'm looking for the retraction by president Obama, Hillary Clinton or even a moron like Chris Murphy of their portrayals of the attack as just another bit of gun violence that can be cured by gun control. There is no retraction.
We need to stop jumping to conclusions as these events unfold. The truth is that gun control legislation would not have made any difference in this attack. Farook was an American citizen with no known connection to terrorism. He had none of the characteristics that might have prevented him from purchasing guns. In other words, Farook was a home-grown terrorist who could have gotten guns even with the "common sense gun safety laws" that Obama is always talking about.
Last week, we had the shooting at Planned Parenthood in Colorado. There too, we watched the same people jump to conclusions about the motives of the shooter. Even today we still are not sure of what those motives were.
If we are ever to stop these attacks from recurring, we need to give up preconceived ideas about what is actually happening. Obama, Clinton and the Democrat/media cabal need to realize that not everything fits into their gun control matrix that they use in every shooting no matter the circumstances.
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