Last Saturday, there was a shooting in front of a Safeway in Tucson, Arizona. While the victim that got the most attention was a Congresswoman named Gabrielle Giffords (who survived), there others who got shot! One of them was federal judge John Roll , and a 9-year old girl named Christina Taylor-Greene!
Of course, there already so many other controversial topics discussed in reaction to that shooting.
1) Political Motives
Being that the Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was a Democrat, I first assumed that the shooter might be a right-wing extremist. After all, if a Republican was attacked, I would assume the attacker would be a left-wing extremist!
So yeah, some left-wing liberal pundits (ie. Paul Krugman of the NY Times) blamed the shooting on right-wing propaganda promoted by Fox News and talk radio.
But it turns out that the killer (Jared Loughner) was a schizophrenic, whose previous rantings are a bunch of lefty-anarchist conspiracy theories. Loughner claimed to be influenced by books written by Adolf Hitler and Karl Marx. No evidence Loughner was influenced by Sarah Palin or Glenn Beck!
So when that fact was revealed, some right-wing conservatives were like "how dare those left-wing liberals pimp this tragedy to promote their anti-conservative agenda".
But many right-wingers pimp tragedies all the time. Especially those committed by Mexican and Muslim immigrants. Not only that, they pin the blame for the tragedies on politicians who favor a more lenient immigration policy.
One of those hypocrites is Michelle Maglalang Malkin! She seemed so offended when left-wing pundits blamed the Tucson shooting on Republicans. But yet, she blames EVERY crime committed by immigrants on politicians who favor a more lenient immigration policy. Michelle Maglalang Malkins LOVES TO PIMP the victims of immigrant criminals.
You think I'm exagarating? Michelle Maglalang Malkin accused comedian Stephen Colbert of lacking compassion towards victims of Mexican criminals.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin100410.php3
But Colbert NEVER mocked victims of immigrant criminals. Colbert was mocking those who claim "immigrants steal our jobs" but don't even apply to work in the farms where many immigrants work.
Because Colbert mocked those who said "immigrants steal our jobs", TRAGEDY PIMP Michelle Maglalang Malkin accused Colbert of lacking sympathy towards Jamiel Shaw and Cheryl Greene.
And Michelle Maglalang Malkin pimp the deaths of Shaw and Greene (both African-Americans killed by Mexican gang members) in a lame attempt to get more African-Americans to share her hatred of Mexicans!
What Michelle Maglalang Malkin CHOSE NOT TO MENTION that despite the deaths of Shaw and Greene at the hands of Mexicans, most African-American murder victims were killed by other African-Americans. And Latino criminals tend to target other Latinos more than other ethnic groups.
http://www.streetgangs.com/topics/2007/092307blacklatino.html
And Jamiel Shaw's murder had less to do with the color of his skin, and more to do with the color of his clothing!
http://www.streetgangs.com/street-gangs/jamiel-shaw-gang-race
That doesn't excuse the murder, but it shows that Shaw's murder, like the Tucson shooting, has been pimped by those with political agendas.
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Another hypocritical tragedy pimp is Pat Buchanan. Buchanan was also offended when left-wing liberals pinned the blame for the Tucson shooting on conservatives. Yet, Buchanan blamed pro-immigration advocates for the Virginia Tech shooting, committed by a LEGAL immigrant from South Korea, who came to the US as a child.
http://townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2007/05/01/the_dark_side_of_diversity
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Sarah Palin got the backlash over the Tucson shooting, due to the fact that on her website, she put a map in which sniper targets were placed on Congressional districts of her opponents, one of them being Gabrielle Giffords. While there is no evidence that Sarah Palin had any influence on Jared Loughner, her use of sniper targets on a map is still a stupid idea.
After her critics pinned the blame of the Tucson shooting on that sniper target map, Palin accused her critics of pinning a "blood libel" on her. Then the tragedy pimps on the Left pretended to be offended by her use of the words "blood libel", saying that those words were associated with the rampant anti-Jewish backlash in Europe centuries ago. But we all know that's not what Palin meant, she used the word "blood libel" to accuse her critics of falsely tying to the Tucson shooting.
2) on the Mentally Ill
After every tragedy, there's always a scream of "we need to do something" even though many times, doing something is worse than doing nothing.
Because Loughner was already known to be mentally ill, people are using this tragedy to demand that the mentally ill be held in an institution against their will, even if they haven't committed a crime.
People say crazy and stupid stuff all the time. But a truly free society doesn't imprison people without due process! You need to have evidence of harm in order to institutionalize someone. You can't just institutionalize someone just because they said idiotic things. Because once that happens, people running the government will decide what crazy thoughts deserve institutionalization. In countries like Iran, China, Cuba, Venezuela and Belarus, the government considers any protester of being "mentally ill" and institutionalizes those who have legit grievances against the government.
3) Gun Control
Because this incident involved a gun, many left-wing liberals are now advocating for more restrictions on guns.
The irony is many of those same left-wing liberals complain about conservative politicians violating our civil liberties and being over-zealous in imprisoning people. Yet, gun control policies will ...... lead to more civil liberty violations and lead to more over-zealousness in imprisoning people!
2 of those hypocrites are New York Times writers Bob Herbert and Nicholas Kristof. Herbert has written many articles protesting the police using intimidation tactics against non-violent African-American and Latino youth in a lame attempt to "stop drugs" or "stop illegal guns". Herbert especially complains about that happening in New York, which has mega-strict laws on guns. So, yeah, Herbert's gun control fanaticism is leading to the very civil liberty violations he is complaining about.
And Nicholas Kristof, who was recently complaining about the federal and state government resorting to imprisonment too easily, yet when gun control laws exist, you are asking the government to ...... resort to imprisonment too easily. DUH!
And his latest article is filled with anti-gun BS!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/opinion/13kristof.html
Likewise, suicide rates are higher in states with more guns, simply because there are more gun suicides. Other kinds of suicide rates are no higher
Yeah, but Japan ban guns, but still has a higher suicide rate. You don't need a gun to commit suicide. You could easily jump off a bridge or drink poisons.
The chances that a gun will be used to deter a home invasion are unbelievably remote, and dialing 911 is more effective in reducing injury than brandishing a weapon, the journal article says.
That is mega-stupid. It's impossible to say something more stupid than that! You think the intruder will let you call 911? Off course not, he could just cut your throat before you could even describe anything to the 911 operator! Criminals know that, that's why they prefer to burglarize when the residents aren't home or if they know their victims don't have a gun!
I even remember back in 2006, when working at Central Middle School, when a student went beserk at me, when I called for security, that kid slammed that phone on the ground before I could even say anything! Luckily, that kid wasn't that big, so he couldn't do much physical damage to me even if he tried! But if your ex is big, he's not going to just knock the phone out of your hand, he will choke you to death! Best to be armed before he barges in the door!
And because most homicides in the home are by family members or acquaintances — not by an intruder — the presence of a gun in the home increases the risk of a gun murder in that home
Another stupid statement. If you're not living with a dysfunctional family, you could have tons of guns in your house, your relatives aren't going to kill you! But if your ex-boyfriend is 3x your size, he could use his strength to break in your house and choke the living crap out of you before you can even complete your sentence to the 911 operator!
Improve background checks and follow Canada in requiring a 28-day waiting period to buy a handgun.
A-28 day waiting period? Your ex, your angry co-worker, your employee you just fired, is not going to wait 28 days to slash you with a knife or knock the living crap out of you!
Yet, so-called "humanitarians" like Kristoff advocate that you be totally defenseless against those who can slash your face, stab your kidneys, choke you to death or break your jaw?
Kristoff then goes on with stats about "firearm suicide rates" and firearm homicide rates", but really, those stats are NOT AS IMPORTANT as "overall suicide rates" and "overall homicide rates". "Suicide through gunshot" is NOT more tragic than "suicide by hanging."
And don't give me this crap that "innocent person beaten to death in a hate crime" is better than "burglar got shot because his potential victims". In fact, I believe burglars, carjackers, store robbers, rapists, spouse abusers and other punks DESERVE TO BE SHOT AT! You think I'm being mean? What about the mean-spiritedness of burglars, carjackers, store robbers, rapists and spouse abusers who use knives, baseball bats and superior physical strength over their victims. Compassion for those punks is compassion wasted!
Kristof also dismissed John Lott's research proving that allowing for concealed weapons do deter criminals. John Lott answers back at Krisof at http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/01/14/arizona-shootings-gun-violence-research-facts-vs-new-york-times/#ixzz1B4POI9HT
John Lott answers to more anti-gun BS at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/493636.html
And don't give me this "you don't need a gun, the police will protect you", because I wrote why that's bull-stuff at
http://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2008/12/police-cant-protect-you-everytime.html
