{"id":1227,"date":"2015-12-04T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T07:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/12\/when-mass-shootings-do-not-benefit-the-left.html"},"modified":"2015-12-04T07:57:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T07:57:00","slug":"when-mass-shootings-do-not-benefit-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/12\/when-mass-shootings-do-not-benefit-the-left.html","title":{"rendered":"When mass shootings do not benefit the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div>What we know:\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li>The shooters were Muslims<\/li>\n<li>The man visited Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n<li>The man didn\u2019t have a criminal record<\/li>\n<li>The man doesn\u2019t appear to have had a mental health record<\/li>\n<li>The couple had stockpiled a massive arsenal including explosives<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<div>That\u2019s all. \u00a0Which has sent Liberal America into a frenzy. Why? \u00a0Because if the above are true, there is nothing apart from profiling Muslims that would have stopped this, at least based on proposals by gun control advocates. \u00a0So the gun control debate, unless you want to ban guns or profile Muslims, is off the table. \u00a0It doesn\u2019t pertain. \u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/--kfEK-PjujI\/VmGCyOuv7EI\/AAAAAAAAGe8\/4VEHIwNWEB0\/s1600\/Daily%20News%20pic.png\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/--kfEK-PjujI\/VmGCyOuv7EI\/AAAAAAAAGe8\/4VEHIwNWEB0\/s320\/Daily%20News%20pic.png\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">The world according to common sense<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div><\/div>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-cLfJe7oSAXQ\/VmGDYwvxIWI\/AAAAAAAAGfE\/cepF-vdwscw\/s1600\/Daily%20News%20II%20pic.png\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"159\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-cLfJe7oSAXQ\/VmGDYwvxIWI\/AAAAAAAAGfE\/cepF-vdwscw\/s320\/Daily%20News%20II%20pic.png\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">The world according to liberalism\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>Of course, it looks like terrorism. \u00a0But since 9\/11, we\u2019ve learned that terrorism is tough to pin in America. \u00a0When Muslims attacked Paris it was terrorism. \u00a0It was also thoughts and prayers. \u00a0But here, where Liberalism is fighting on \u00a0the front lines of global domination, there can be no such niceties or common sense appraisals. \u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now, I\u2019m no soothsayer or prophet. \u00a0But here\u2019s a guess. \u00a0The liberal advocates will do any or all of the following in the days to come:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Focus on gun control<\/li>\n<li>Focus on Islamaphobia<\/li>\n<li>Focus on parsing terrorism. Remember when any terrorism that wasn\u2019t Al Qaeda wasn\u2019t considered a big deal and we couldn\u2019t focus on that since it wasn\u2019t connected to 9\/11? \u00a0Expect the same now with Isis. \u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Focus on the fact that the shooters were not Syrian refugees<\/li>\n<li>Appeal to rambling interviews in which we ask things like \u2018does it even matter why it happened?\u2019 (as opposed to things like the Charleston shooting or the Tuscon shooting), or just rambled about saying incoherent things about stuff and things<\/li>\n<li>And in all things, blame conservatives. \u00a0<\/li>\n<li>But if it can\u2019t be used to advance the gospel of the Left, expect the whole story to be gone within a week or so. \u00a0If it lasts that long.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>That\u2019s just a hunch,.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>BTW, it\u2019s two days and counting over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">CAEI<\/a>. \u00a0No prayer post or request for prayers. \u00a0No mention. \u00a0Nothing. \u00a0I can\u2019t begin to fathom why. \u00a0Perhaps he just wants to focus on the positives of what the Faith teaches. \u00a0I just hope the first post addressing it isn\u2019t about the evils of the NRA, conservatives, gun nuts, or racist America. \u00a0In short, I hope conservative blogger Mark doesn\u2019t once again echo with almost stunning efficiency the biases and perspectives of the worst elements of the Left.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we know:\u00a0 The shooters were Muslims The man visited Saudi Arabia The man didn\u2019t have a criminal record The man doesn\u2019t appear to have had a mental health record The couple had stockpiled a massive arsenal including explosives That\u2019s all. \u00a0Which has sent Liberal America into a frenzy. 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