To the “let’s not let this crisis go to waste” poltroons who started the browbeating about “white terrorism” on social media, even to making explicitly cruel comments about people offering prayers for the victims and their families …
Directly after a mass shooting, in the minutes or hours or days between the first trickle of news and when police find a suspect or make arrests, it is very difficult to know what to do. Some people demand political action, like greater gun control; others call for prayer. In the aftermath of a violent shooting spree in San Bernardino, California, on Wednesday, in which at least 14 victims are reported to have died, people with those differing reactions quickly turned against one another.
For example: Here’s the Washington editor at the liberal publication The Nation, George Zornick, on reactions from the 2016 presidential candidates:
Compare + contrast: pic.twitter.com/vWXoIHd1Uy
— George Zornick (@gzornick) December 2, 2015
There’s a clear claim being made here, and one with an edge: Democrats care about doing something and taking action while Republicans waste time offering meaningless prayers. These two reactions, policy-making and praying, are portrayed as mutually exclusive, coming from totally contrasting worldviews. Elsewhere on Twitter, full-on prayer shaming set in: Anger about the shooting was turned not toward the perpetrator or perpetrators, whose identities are still unknown, but at those who offered their prayers. […]
There are many assumptions packed into these attacks on prayer: that all religious people, and specifically Christians, are gun supporters, and vice versa. That people who care about gun control can’t be religious, and if they are, they should keep quiet in the aftermath of yet another heart-wrenching act of violence. At one time in American history, liberals and conservatives shared a language of God, but that’s clearly no longer the case; any invocation of faith is taken as implicit advocacy of right-wing political beliefs.
… I say fuck you, you indecent piece of shit.
None of the illiberal meanness, thoughtless scoffing, scurrilous contempt, vulgar dismissal, witless demeaning insult — none of that is at all surprising is it? No, not truly surprising. What was surprising was the obvious concert, the non-spontaneous lockstep of perfect alignment in one voice braying to a tiny circle of committed followers, yet broadcast so widely. Impolitic, is what that sort of business used to be called. That was odd. So off indeed that the ClownDeceptor has attempted to make amends by distancing himself today. He’s an idiot still, but he retains pollsters to prevent his showing himself a complete idiot.
Religious belief as mental illness? Notable focus on mental illness as reason to deny gun ownership?
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Mrs Cookies just sent me a link for a concealed carry and personal protection course she wants for Christmas. Given the way she was going off last night, I bet she comes home with the biggest gun she can carry today. So even though this shit will end up getting Trump elected, I’m OK with it. Let them keep talking.
Remember the last time jihadis tried to pull this shit in Texas? This may be why now they’re going to places like San Bernardino instead.
Calling for more gun control before the shooting has stopped? I don’t know who’d be more impressed with that kind of bold, original “action,” William Le Petomane, or Eric Stratton.
Since I see out there on the internets some people seeming to fret about nothings, a reminder to them of another husband-wife team. Those two were followers of ISIS’s precursor.
Yeah, it’s a lot classier to climb atop the bodies and wave the bloody shirt, attempting to further your fascist agenda, than to empathize with the victims.
Greetings:
What struck me about the initial reactions was President Obama’s amendment of his unthoughtful comment in Paris about what happens in the countries of which he is aware and what a good job the media did in ignoring his amendment.
It may be useful to consider ClownCatastrophe’s remarks in Paris as in some major part aimed at his French constituency, with this as his end: he seeks to help Frenchmen forget that they were attacked in their capitol city, which they also in some major part are inclined to do. For carrying through with their own President’s vow to conduct a war “without mercy” against the Islamist pigs is a bit more gristle than they reckon themselves capable of chewing.
Mrs. Bear is partial to her 7 shot .357 Taurus revolver with 6 inch barrel. A real clown stopper but, not exactly your conceal carry type.
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