by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
An outdoor concert in Las Vegas Nevada, a student bar zone in Lawrence, Kansas, a Walmart in Thornton, Colorado, and now a Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas - four diverse scenes of mass shootings in the United States in the last few weeks - places where people were going about their daily lives one moment, and were dodging bullets the next. Eighty dead and numerous individuals wounded, some with injuries that will be evident for the rest of their lives.
Also during that same period there was a "terrorist" incident in New York City in which a Muslim extremist drove a truck onto a pedestrian walkway killing eight and injuring twelve.
Donald Trump kept relatively calm about the four mass shootings, prattling on about the obvious mental health issues of the shooters but offering no money or proposals to deal with the burgeoning issue. However, the Muslim man mowing down pedestrians with a vehicle was a different story. Trump was in his full raging glory as he recommended that the guy get both the death penalty as well as a room at Guantanamo.
Trump's reasoning was simple. An act of mass murder committed by a Muslim is terrorism, but mass murders, particularly those involving guns, which have white, good-old-boy shooters, are mental health issues. The shooter in Thornton, Colorado, a white man who had a "stack" of Bibles in his otherwise nearly barren apartment, carefully shot and killed three people, all Hispanic, in the checkout line at his local Walmart - and did not earn even a mention from the finger-pointer-in-chief.
Trump did respond to yesterday's shooting in Texas which killed twenty-six people as they stood outside of their church. He said it was not a "guns situation." Of course it wasn't. Those folks probably died of bad cholesterol!
Thank God that shooter wasn't a Muslim, or Trump would have likely loosed his nukes!
Citizen Journalist
An outdoor concert in Las Vegas Nevada, a student bar zone in Lawrence, Kansas, a Walmart in Thornton, Colorado, and now a Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas - four diverse scenes of mass shootings in the United States in the last few weeks - places where people were going about their daily lives one moment, and were dodging bullets the next. Eighty dead and numerous individuals wounded, some with injuries that will be evident for the rest of their lives.
Also during that same period there was a "terrorist" incident in New York City in which a Muslim extremist drove a truck onto a pedestrian walkway killing eight and injuring twelve.
Donald Trump kept relatively calm about the four mass shootings, prattling on about the obvious mental health issues of the shooters but offering no money or proposals to deal with the burgeoning issue. However, the Muslim man mowing down pedestrians with a vehicle was a different story. Trump was in his full raging glory as he recommended that the guy get both the death penalty as well as a room at Guantanamo.
Trump's reasoning was simple. An act of mass murder committed by a Muslim is terrorism, but mass murders, particularly those involving guns, which have white, good-old-boy shooters, are mental health issues. The shooter in Thornton, Colorado, a white man who had a "stack" of Bibles in his otherwise nearly barren apartment, carefully shot and killed three people, all Hispanic, in the checkout line at his local Walmart - and did not earn even a mention from the finger-pointer-in-chief.
Trump did respond to yesterday's shooting in Texas which killed twenty-six people as they stood outside of their church. He said it was not a "guns situation." Of course it wasn't. Those folks probably died of bad cholesterol!
Thank God that shooter wasn't a Muslim, or Trump would have likely loosed his nukes!
1 comment:
Arming the mentally ill can be traced directly back to Trump. He signed Public Law No: 115-8 (02/28/2017) which revoked an Obama Era rule designed to curtail the availability of such access.
The rule, which was finalized in December of 2016, added persons receiving Social Security checks for mental illnesses and people deemed unfit to handle their own financial affairs to the national background check database; per NBC News, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-signs-bill-revoking-obama-era-gun-checks-people-mental-n727221.
Public Law 115-8, passed by your Republican Congress, is found at https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-joint-resolution/40/text/pl?overview=closed.
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