The New York Daily News is going for shock value, and they’re succeeding. However, as the shock factor rises, their credibility dives so deep into the irretrievable dense negative that somewhere out there a black-hole is taking notes. Literally, for anyone on their staff to ever be taken as anything more than a satirical side event again, new identities and a stint with the Witness Protection Program might be in order.
This morning, the Daily News calls NRA head Wayne Lapierre a terrorist pic.twitter.com/yP9uC74PDX
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) December 4, 2015
.@NYDailyNews Doubles Down, Compares 'Terrorist' @NRA, LaPierre to Farook, Lanza #TTT16 https://t.co/etyOYW1lUY
— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) December 4, 2015
First off, the lunacy involved in calling for gun control after this latest event is breathtaking. Imagine with me, if you will, that someone breaks into a store in the dead of night. They hurl bricks through the windows, careless in regards to the noise they’re making. They then steal what they desire and run through the shattered windows to a getaway car. The following morning, the store manager says, “We need to do something! I demand louder anti-theft alarms and mandatory pat-downs whenever someone exits the front door!”
Now, we would find such a reaction ridiculous, because it had nothing to do with the crime. Right? We would find the manager to be an opportunistic tool, yet that doesn’t even come close to resembling how obnoxiously uneducated the calls for gun control are after a terrorist attack.
Additionally, the attacks that happened in San Bernardino, Colorado Springs, Charleston, Sandy Hook, and Aurora were all perpetrated in gun-free zones. Yet they’re attacking the one major organization in America who, day in and day out, fight for our right to defend ourselves from the terrorists who have no problem breaking the laws these “peace loving,” morally bankrupt, and unreasonably capricious fools tout; In Paris it’s “climate change,” but in America it’s Wayne LaPierre and the NRA.
The #NRA won’t accept the blame for murderers, nor apologize for fighting for our right to defend against them https://t.co/DN0mEex4ay
— NRA (@NRA) December 4, 2015
Presidential candidate Marco Rubio pointed out that the laws so many are demanding would not have changed the result of any recent mass shootings in recent years, and he also strikes down the idea of a “gun show loophole” we know doesn’t exist. See below:
“None of these crimes that have been committed would have been prevented by expanded background checks.”
Bingo. Yet the White House refuses to let such a tragedy go to waste.
The Obama administration reacted to yesterday’s shooting in San Bernardino – likely carried out by a Muslim terrorist – by insisting that “common sense” gun laws will deter jihadists who are planning attacks.
“Why wouldn’t we make it harder for them?”
In short, Josh Earnest and President Obama believe that incredibly difficult gun laws would deter terrorism; like those nearly impossible gun laws they have in France. Or, you know, San Bernardino, CA.
If you’re a gun owner in California, you must:
Pass a universal background check, no matter where you buy your gun
Wait at least 10 days to receive that gun (the idea here is to give law enforcement enough time to conduct the background check)
Get your handgun microstamped, which means the make, model and serial number of the gun is transferred to each cartridge case every time the gun is fired (the idea is to allow police at a crime scene to trace a gun back to its owner)
Take and pass a written safety test
You can’t:
Own most assault weapons or buy and sell large-capacity ammunition magazines or .50 caliber rifles
Buy your gun through a private sale, like online or via a friend, without first going through a licensed dealer (and thus getting a background check)
Buy more than one handgun a month
Or, you know, Connecticut.
If you’re a gun owner in Connecticut, you must:
Get a background check before buying a gun from an unlicensed firearm dealer (like a private sale)
Get a background check if you buy your gun at a gun show
Apply for and receive an eligibility certificate before you buy a hand gun, a long gun and/or ammunition
Agree to go through those background checks by the state of Connecticut, not just the FBI
Wait two weeks to receive the gun you just bought
Report the loss or theft of your gun
That’s right, two of the largest mass shootings to be used in the pro-gun control arguments are ranked #1 and #2 by a pro-gun control group, The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, as already having the most strict laws in the country. But, according to the Huffington Post, that doesn’t matter.
Even if possessing the guns had been illegal in California from the get-go, however, the shooters could have easily acquired them in a neighboring state with more lenient laws — a fact that attests to the limits of state gun regulations in a country where gun laws vary widely from one state to the next.
Talk about falling on your own sword. The worst argument pro-gun advocates could ever use is the “they could just get a gun from another state” narrative. It proves what we’ve said all along: Psychopaths look for defenseless victims. Why would someone disregard the laws in State A by sneaking guns in from State B? Because in State A, the likelihood of them being met with equal force from another civilian is diminished, and that little detail about them not being concerned about the law in anyway whatsoever in the first place.
I get it though, Huffington Post, we just need strict gun laws throughout the entire country for that to work. Like in France.
On 7 January 2015 at about 11:30 local time, two brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaperCharlie Hebdo in Paris. Armed with assault rifles and other weapons, they killed 11 people and injured 11 others in the building.
On the evening of 13 November 2015, a series of coordinated terrorist attacksoccurred in Paris, the capital of France, and its northern suburb, Saint-Denis…
The attackers killed 130 people,[2] including 89 at the Bataclan theatre.
The 2011 Norway attacks were two sequential lone wolf terrorist attacks byAnders Behring Breivik against the government, the civilian population, and aWorkers’ Youth League (AUF)-run summer camp in Norway on 22 July 2011. The attacks claimed a total of 77 lives.
Or Finland:
The Raumanmeri school shooting of January 1989
The Jokela school shooting of November 2007
The Kauhajoki school shooting of September 2008
And so on, and so on, and so on… The crazy part is, America is known as the gun loving country, and our own President says that mass shootings just don’t happen in other countries. Yet, if you research the data from around the world to combine a rampage shooting fatalities per capita index that takes population differences into account, we’re not in first place. We’re not even in second place. We don’t even break into the top five. The top five include Norway, Finland, Slovakia, Israel, and Switzerland – Oddly, they ALL have stringent gun control, which you can research here.
So, I’ll give the kindest advice I have to offer to the New York Daily News writers currently frothing at the mouth like rabid chihuahuas, and to the President and liberal media who wish to make it easier for terrorists and psychopaths (redundant, I know) to find defenseless targets:
You might have better luck if you try selling your narrative to someone who has a brain that can bask in the shade provided by a split pea.
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