It’s really that simple.
This week two people dressed in tactical gear and with long
rifles and handguns killed 14 innocent people, and wounded many more, at a
holiday party. After law enforcement officers
surrounded their getaway car and killed them in a shootout pipe bombs were also
found in that car. In a search of the assailants’ house authorities found what they
described as a bomb factory with more IEDs, thousands of rounds of ammo, and a booby-trap
bomb that fortunately didn’t go off.
The two were identified as an American-born devout Muslim male
and the Muslim wife he met online and brought to this country from Saudi Arabia on
a “fiancé visa.” The two have been linked
to people on the FBI’s terror watch list.
That, in a nutshell, is what happened.
On the same day this occurred, and after much of the
information above was released, Obama told the American people they had nothing
to fear from a Paris-style attack by terrorists. He said that while ISIS or ISIL remains dangerous
as Al Qaeda “was” (his word), we had “hardened” our defenses to prevent them
from initiating attacks here.
He quickly shifted to the need to address gun
violence in America. Democrats followed –
with Clinton and Sanders swiftly tweeting out the need to end gun violence. Obama’s
spokespuppet then went on air to talk about the need for “commonsense” gun laws
to keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn't have guns.
Meanwhile, Republican candidates tweeted their prayers for
the families of those killed or wounded. Trump tweeted his appreciation for law
enforcement as well. Liberal trolls online instantly mocked those Republicans
for sending prayers rather than passing substantive gun controls. The next day, the New York Daily News ran a
cover headlined “God isn’t fixing this” with pictures of those same Republicans
and screenshots of their tweets.
Here are a few interesting facts. Two of the guns used by
these murderers were purchased legally; police aren’t sure where the others came
from. The assailants also used high-capacity magazines with their assault-style
rifles and had more at home. All of this
happened in California, which has some of the strictest gun laws in the entire
country, where most assault-style rifles, and all high-capacity magazines, are
banned.
California gun laws didn’t stop any of this from happening.
Another fact: well before this slaughter happened one of the
killers’ neighbors was ready to alert authorities of their suspicious behavior,
including a half dozen Middle-Eastern-looking men coming and going, which made
neighbors wonder what they were doing. He didn’t
because he was afraid he’d be accused of racial profiling. It’s quite possible
had he not worried so much about political correctness this terrible tragedy
could have been avoided.
Now we know that the two killers were radicalized Islamic
terrorists who had planned this out carefully – most likely in conjunction with
other radical Islamists. Based on the amount of weapons, ammo, bomb-making
components and completed IEDs found on their premises, they were actively preparing
for even more attacks, perhaps by others.
So despite what Obama and his minions may say, this was not
simply workplace violence or gun violence. There are Islamic terrorists
here. They have just completed a smaller
scale Paris-style massacre of innocents here. Whether the killers were directed
by ISIS, Al Qaeda or acted entirely on their own is irrelevant; 14 people are
dead, many more wounded, most likely because someone was afraid to be accused
of racial profiling,
This is where our culture of political correctness has
proven deadly. We need to start calling out who is committing murders with no
thought to political correctness.
In this case, it’s a pair of Islamic terrorists.
Obama, are you listening?
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