Guest Post by Stilton Jarlsberg
Let’s get a few things out of the way first: the mass shooting at the Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic is an awful tragedy which should never have happened. Whatever the gunman’s twisted motives (which remain unclear, although he mentioned “no more baby parts” in a rambling, disjointed conversation with police) he is nothing more, and nothing less, than a psycho killer who deserves capital punishment as quickly as the system will allow.
Clearly, the world would have been better off if this lunatic didn’t have a gun. But Hope n’ Change is struck by the hypocrisy of the president declaring “enough is enough” over this shooting of 12 people (3 killed, 9 wounded) while showing less interest in the holiday weekend’s body count in Chicago (15 killed, 67 wounded) than he shows in sports scores.
And the reason is simple: Mr. Obama’s goal remains to take guns out of the hands of the law abiding while doing nothing to curb the endemic inner city gun violence which takes so many black lives (which apparently don’t #Matter to him much.) So his selective outrage is clearly political rather than moral.
Make no mistake, Hope n’ Change is all for keeping guns out of the hands of homicidal lunatics. But how? What are the telltale signs which clearly signal that someone has gone around the bend?
According to voter records, which Democrats assure us are always 100% accurate, the bearded, formerly-married shooter was listed as a female. Was this a governmental error (unthinkable!) or a case of Caitlyn Jenner-itis? If it’s the latter, the Left assures us that this is proof of rock solid mental stability.
The shooter also lived in tiny dwellings (sometimes a shack with neither running water nor electricity) which once might have seemed the mark of a spooky loner, but now is laudable for producing only a small, environmentally-sound carbon footprint.
Might his college records have provided a tip-off? Unlikely, since even those who spent their college days actively seeking out radicals (and later consorting with bomb-making terrorists) – as Obama boasts about in his autobiography – are clearly on the side of the angels. Still, the fact that the shooter got his degree in “public administration” suggests that he’s harbored antisocial tendencies for quite awhile.
Sadly, there’s no absolutely certain way to make sure that the insane (or people who have become insane over time) don’t get access to guns – although Hope n’ Change is genuinely open to hearing realistic ideas.
Until then, we suggest that the president drop his “weapons of war” rhetoric when talking about sane people who carry guns to help ensure public safety, and instead finally get serious about the actual wars and staggering death tolls in his Democrat-ruled inner cities.
FWIW,
The local authorities seem to be keeping all details about the shooter and shooting, other than a few basic things that can’t be hidden, secret for some reason.
What we do know is he is a loner type, doesn’t get along well with others and seems to have no logical continuity in his conversations, no one in the pro life community has ever heard of him so he’s not connected there, he lived in a run down shack, no religious views or lack thereof are known, he self identifies as a female (public records) and has a history of personal and legal problems with other people that indicate being mentally unstable at best.
So I wonder why they don’t want to talk about it and release what they have discovered so far? May be a valid reason for it, but every detail of every shooter in the past seems to be made up front and public in the past as soon as it is available so that is the norm in these cases so far.
As far as who should be able to own guns, the simple wording of the 2nd Amendment should answer that. Any restrictions apply only to the law abiding that don’t make criminal use of them.
If the PP shooter was black, Obummer would have not said a word about it.
One look at this dude and you know he’s crazier than a shithouse rat. This shooting has nothing to do with abortion or gun control. It has to do with a mentally ill nutjob. He looks like he could be Ann Barnhardt’s brother.
Maybe his diet had fetal cells in it which drove him mad.
There needs to be a better way of terminating PP murders; leaving the job to amateur morons just causes other problems.
If I am forced to protect my family or myself then it is war and ,any weapon I have will be a weapon of that war.
I like e Ann Barnhardt
I’d marry this bitch!! She thinks Lindsey Graham’s a pussy!!
Rahm Emanuel Fires Chicago Police Chief
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/01/2015 12:38 -0500
While the rest of the world has ISIS to contend with, the US has Chicago, a city where the number of annual homicides will easily outpace the death count of even the most gruesome terrorist incident – a sad reality which most of America, and certainly Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, has closed its eyes to.
But in the aftermath of the latest police shooting controversy involving the dashboard video documenting the shooting death Laquan McDonald, as well that following the gang execution of Tyshawn Lee, which stirred national tempers, there had to be a fall guy, and sure enough moments ago the Chicago Police Chief Garry McCarthy was fired by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, according to the Chicago Sun Times.
As the Chicago paper reports, McCarthy was called into City Hall on Monday and when he left City Hall he still had a job. But overnight, the mayor called McCarthy to tell him he was out. “Now is the time for fresh ideas and new leadership” the mayor said.
Clearly, he did not mean new mayoral leadership.
According to the WSJ, Emanuel said he asked for the chief’s resignation. He also thanked Mr. McCarthy for his service, but said he had become a distraction from the larger issues on policing the city must address.
McCarthy appeared “shell-shocked” by the news, Sun Times sources said.
But Chicago Police superintendents are like baseball managers and football coaches. They’re hired to be fired. Failure and crises are literally built into the job. When it comes, a head needs to roll. The sacrificial lamb inevitably is the man on top—even though he’s not responsible for the number of wins and losses.
McCarthy is no different. He’s a fighter who firmly believed he had earned to right to decide when the timing was right to retire from the pressure-cooker job after surviving a serious heart attack more than a year ago.
Rahm Emanuel, who according to the Sun Times, “hates creating political scapegoats, of serving up heads on platters” did just that as the pressure to get rid of McCarthy was coming from all sides.
The final straw appeared to be a front-page editorial in Tuesday’s Chicago Sun-Times. That followed the Washington Post and nearly every black elected official in the Chicago area.
McCarthy is a former operations chief at the New York Police Department who went on to run the police department in Newark, N.J.
He was hired by Emanuel shortly before the 2011 inauguration after the mayor’s first choice, former Chicago Deputy Superintendent Charles Ramsey, demanded a salary in excess of $400,000.
The Sun Times adds that with his big ego, brash persona and fast-talking, outspoken style, McCarthy was a police chief out of central casting long before there was a locally-filmed television series called “Chicago P.D.”
During the 2012 NATO summit, McCarthy was hailed as a hero for leading his troops from the front and diffusing a potentially volatile confrontation with Black Bloc provocateurs at Cermak and Michigan. A grateful City Council passed a resolution praising his performance and jokingly calling him Chicago’s very own General Douglas McArthur.
As the paper further details, Emanuel may have had an ulterior motive, as “some wondered whether the mayor who is used to being the center of attention was privately seething about all of the attention directed at McCarthy when it was Emanuel whose political neck was on the line.”
But, the worm started to turn for McCarthy after his police strategies failed to reduce a surge in police shootings. “The Chicago Sun-Times may have put the final nail in McCarthy’s coffin with a front-page editorial demanding the superintendent’s ouster. The Washington Post, which helps determines a national image that Emanuel covets, had previously done the same.”
And now, inquiring minds wonder what happens now, when once again nothing changes following this rotation at the top, and when the culture of constant homicides in Chicago continues. Will Rahm Emanuel ever be forced to take the proverbial bullet for that, or will he just find another convenient scapegoat?