The Giffords Shooting: Hypocrisy and The Left

The Giffords Shooting: Hypocrisy and The Left

Shick McRogue

January 10, 2011

OK, I've had enough.  The baseless claim that the AZ shooting took place because of Sarah Palin/the Tea Party/Hate Speech and Vitriol on the Right/Lack of Gun Control is sickening.  The people making those accusations have no courage to look at the FACT that the shooter was a deranged leftist on a vendetta.  Mark David Chapman murdered John Lennon, in part, because he felt that Lennon had "sold out" and he didn't like the way Lennon spoke with him when he got his album signed.  

Sounds suspiciously like Loughner's reaction to a 2007 Gifford campaign event where she didn't answer a loony question to his satisfaction, saying she was a "phony".

Fast forward to 1-10-11.  The meme from the left and their media was that it was all Sarah Palin’s fault, the hate speech and vitriol caused this.  Michelle Malkin has an excellent presentation of the FACTS as to who is really generating the hate speech, the violent imagery and that is, of course, the left – from President “they bring a knife, we bring a gun” Obama right on down through each spouting puppet on CNN, MSNBC and the other alphabet networks.  Now Democrat Robert Brady wants to make “language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening” a federal crime.

Think back when Sarah Palin came on the stage, when George Bush 43 was president: the left laughed their way through the movies of assassination, and images on posters of rape, abortion and worse.  Where was Brady’s sense of outrage then?

When Nadal Hasaan (an obviously radical Muslim) did his part at Ft. Hood to get his virgins, the media and the President were all about “We can’t jump to conclusions, all the facts must come in, we can’t dare pi$$ off the Muslims.”  But when a white male does ANYTHING violent, they immediately cram it into the mold of another Timothy McVeigh.

Which President’s Chief of Staff said “Never let a crisis go to waste” again?  If this or any tragedy can be used by today’s bloated, insane and militant Democratic Party that is completely over the edge into radical leftism to further their cause, they will do it.  They do it not in the arena of reasonably discussing ideas but in the swamp and mire of ideological machinations and character assassinations, all amplified by their very willing brothers and sisters in the media.  Saul Alinsky, George Soros and William Ayers taught them all so well.

Oh and for the loons (this time led by Democrat Rep. Carolyn McCarthy and no doubt supported by extreme 2^nd-amendment hating NY Mayor Bloomberg) who want to use this as a weak excuse for gun control or ammo control or magazine control or any other type of control, consider this: making it illegal for qualified citizens to purchase a gun is the same flawed logic as making it illegal for anyone to buy a car in order to do away with drunk driving.  Should we investigate how this nutter was able to buy a gun in the first place, how he passed the FBI’s background check?  Should we tighten up those procedures?  Of course.  

Using this lone whackjob’s warped act of premeditated assassination to further ANY political agenda is heinous in the extreme and those who do must be held accountable and STOPPED.