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Leroy N. Soetoro
Oct 4, 2017, 7:16:05 PM10/4/17
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wont-end-mass-murder.html
Editor's note: The following column first appeared in The Washington
Times.
As the nation continues to reel from the nation’s worst mass shooting in
modern history, politicians and other opportunists find the massacre too
inviting not to exploit. The knee-jerk cravenness of liberals to scrape up
their calls for gun-control while demonizing the National Rifle
Association (NRA) immediately sucks all the air out of the room,
eliminating any discussion or investigation of other foundational forces
driving mass violence.
At about 7:03 a.m. EDT, as the East Coast was waking up to the horrific
news of the shooting in Las Vegas, Hillary Clinton was ready at the
smartphone. With little information and even less decency, she reduced the
unfolding human catastrophe to a political opportunity: “The crowd fled at
the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer,
which the NRA wants to make easier to get.”
Continuing the missives to her 18.7 million Twitter followers, she
actually managed to insist we put politics aside while doing the opposite,
all within the 140-character limit, “Our grief isn’t enough. We can and
must put politics aside, stand up to the NRA, and work together to try to
stop this from happening again.”
The left’s obsession with gun control has never been well-received by
Americans who also want the carnage to stop. One reason is real-life
experience with the failure of banning an object instead of addressing the
human condition, what drives an individual to resort to such obscene
behavior.
Mrs. Clinton’s ghoulish instinct was true to form as liberal strategy
unabashedly made clear by Rahm Emanuel in November 2008, as chief of staff
for President-elect Obama. He told The Wall Street Journal, “You never
want to let a serious crisis go to waste, and what I mean by that is it’s
an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”
Mrs. Clinton was roundly criticized for her comments, which were made
hours before the bodies of the murdered had been collected from the ground
on which they fell.
This nation knows well the arguments about gun control, as we have
experienced mass shootings, too many and too often. We also know the
left’s obsession with gun control has never been well-received by
Americans who also want the carnage to stop. Why? There are the important
arguments about that pesky thing called the Constitution and the Second
Amendment, but we also have real-life experience with the failure of
banning an object instead of addressing the human condition, and what
drives an individual to resort to such obscene and inhuman behavior.
For liberals, this obsession with gun control reverses any progress we
could make as it’s seen as “the solution” when nothing could be further
from the truth. Chicago experiences massacres every weekend despite (and
some would argue, because of) having some of the most restrictive gun laws
in the country.
For the first weekend of October, the Chicago Tribune reported, “At least
32 people were shot over the weekend, including a man killed along the
Chicago River on the Northwest Side and a 13-year-old boy wounded while
riding his bike in Little Village on the West Side, according to police.
Between Friday afternoon and early Monday, at least four people were
killed and 28 others wounded, police said.”
The prior weekend in the Windy City brought a grim milestone of 500
homicides, so far, for 2017.
For some reason, Mrs. Clinton and the other liberals and Hollywood
celebrities tweeting their outrage and demands for gun control have been
silent about the massacres in Chicago. Perhaps because they were
successful there and “gun control” was achieved. Now that it failed, they
would have to confront issues like gangs, MS-13 and drugs. Confronted with
the fraud of the liberal solution of gun control, the only answer is to
not look, move on and abandon the victims.
Now with President Trump at the helm, we are beginning to address gang
issues, including the scourge of illegal alien gangs like MS-13. Even more
significant is the crackdown on the opioid crisis. After years of
increasing addiction to prescription painkillers, we are only now
beginning to intervene.
We still don’t know what factors drove Stephen Paddock to meticulously
plan a mass murder that killed, at this writing, 59 people and wounded
527. We search for something that will shed light on the maniac’s
reasoning, so it will “make sense.” While psychotropics help innumerable
people around the world, rarely is there any transparency about or
investigation into mind-altering prescription drug use and its possible
impact on perpetrators of mass violence.
The Mayo Clinic warns, “Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one
prescription drug, and more than half take two.” Mayo Clinic and Olmsted
Medical Center researchers say, “Antibiotics, antidepressants and
painkilling opioids are most commonly prescribed.”
In the case of transnational mass-murdering ISIS, their terrorists are fed
a drug called Captagon, known as the “jihad pill,” Newsweek reported.
Captagon is an amphetamine-based drug banned throughout the world in the
1980s.
Despite the worldwide ban, the drug “remains popular in the Middle East,
particularly in Saudi Arabia, where more Captagon is consumed than in any
other country in the world,” Newsweek noted.
Many commentators and experts this week have warned us the Las Vegas
massacre is the “new normal.” It doesn’t have to be, any more than ISIS
has to be. We know we can only defeat Islamic terrorism by being honest
about the enemy, in all its human complexity. We must demand the same
clarity here at home.
--
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party has run out of gas.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for ending the disaster of the
Obama presidency.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its
supporters can dispute that.
Obama jobs, the result of ObamaCare. 12-15 working hours a week at minimum
wage, no benefits and the primary revenue stream for ObamaCare. It can't
be funded with money people don't have, yet liberals lie about how great
it is.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
wont-end-mass-murder.html
Editor's note: The following column first appeared in The Washington
Times.
As the nation continues to reel from the nation’s worst mass shooting in
modern history, politicians and other opportunists find the massacre too
inviting not to exploit. The knee-jerk cravenness of liberals to scrape up
their calls for gun-control while demonizing the National Rifle
Association (NRA) immediately sucks all the air out of the room,
eliminating any discussion or investigation of other foundational forces
driving mass violence.
At about 7:03 a.m. EDT, as the East Coast was waking up to the horrific
news of the shooting in Las Vegas, Hillary Clinton was ready at the
smartphone. With little information and even less decency, she reduced the
unfolding human catastrophe to a political opportunity: “The crowd fled at
the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer,
which the NRA wants to make easier to get.”
Continuing the missives to her 18.7 million Twitter followers, she
actually managed to insist we put politics aside while doing the opposite,
all within the 140-character limit, “Our grief isn’t enough. We can and
must put politics aside, stand up to the NRA, and work together to try to
stop this from happening again.”
The left’s obsession with gun control has never been well-received by
Americans who also want the carnage to stop. One reason is real-life
experience with the failure of banning an object instead of addressing the
human condition, what drives an individual to resort to such obscene
behavior.
Mrs. Clinton’s ghoulish instinct was true to form as liberal strategy
unabashedly made clear by Rahm Emanuel in November 2008, as chief of staff
for President-elect Obama. He told The Wall Street Journal, “You never
want to let a serious crisis go to waste, and what I mean by that is it’s
an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”
Mrs. Clinton was roundly criticized for her comments, which were made
hours before the bodies of the murdered had been collected from the ground
on which they fell.
This nation knows well the arguments about gun control, as we have
experienced mass shootings, too many and too often. We also know the
left’s obsession with gun control has never been well-received by
Americans who also want the carnage to stop. Why? There are the important
arguments about that pesky thing called the Constitution and the Second
Amendment, but we also have real-life experience with the failure of
banning an object instead of addressing the human condition, and what
drives an individual to resort to such obscene and inhuman behavior.
For liberals, this obsession with gun control reverses any progress we
could make as it’s seen as “the solution” when nothing could be further
from the truth. Chicago experiences massacres every weekend despite (and
some would argue, because of) having some of the most restrictive gun laws
in the country.
For the first weekend of October, the Chicago Tribune reported, “At least
32 people were shot over the weekend, including a man killed along the
Chicago River on the Northwest Side and a 13-year-old boy wounded while
riding his bike in Little Village on the West Side, according to police.
Between Friday afternoon and early Monday, at least four people were
killed and 28 others wounded, police said.”
The prior weekend in the Windy City brought a grim milestone of 500
homicides, so far, for 2017.
For some reason, Mrs. Clinton and the other liberals and Hollywood
celebrities tweeting their outrage and demands for gun control have been
silent about the massacres in Chicago. Perhaps because they were
successful there and “gun control” was achieved. Now that it failed, they
would have to confront issues like gangs, MS-13 and drugs. Confronted with
the fraud of the liberal solution of gun control, the only answer is to
not look, move on and abandon the victims.
Now with President Trump at the helm, we are beginning to address gang
issues, including the scourge of illegal alien gangs like MS-13. Even more
significant is the crackdown on the opioid crisis. After years of
increasing addiction to prescription painkillers, we are only now
beginning to intervene.
We still don’t know what factors drove Stephen Paddock to meticulously
plan a mass murder that killed, at this writing, 59 people and wounded
527. We search for something that will shed light on the maniac’s
reasoning, so it will “make sense.” While psychotropics help innumerable
people around the world, rarely is there any transparency about or
investigation into mind-altering prescription drug use and its possible
impact on perpetrators of mass violence.
The Mayo Clinic warns, “Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one
prescription drug, and more than half take two.” Mayo Clinic and Olmsted
Medical Center researchers say, “Antibiotics, antidepressants and
painkilling opioids are most commonly prescribed.”
In the case of transnational mass-murdering ISIS, their terrorists are fed
a drug called Captagon, known as the “jihad pill,” Newsweek reported.
Captagon is an amphetamine-based drug banned throughout the world in the
1980s.
Despite the worldwide ban, the drug “remains popular in the Middle East,
particularly in Saudi Arabia, where more Captagon is consumed than in any
other country in the world,” Newsweek noted.
Many commentators and experts this week have warned us the Las Vegas
massacre is the “new normal.” It doesn’t have to be, any more than ISIS
has to be. We know we can only defeat Islamic terrorism by being honest
about the enemy, in all its human complexity. We must demand the same
clarity here at home.
--
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party has run out of gas.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for ending the disaster of the
Obama presidency.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its
supporters can dispute that.
Obama jobs, the result of ObamaCare. 12-15 working hours a week at minimum
wage, no benefits and the primary revenue stream for ObamaCare. It can't
be funded with money people don't have, yet liberals lie about how great
it is.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
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