Mass Shooting in California: The Circus Begins

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by Mark Angelides

Yesterday another mass shooting occurred; this time in California. The shooter killed four people and injured at least ten; he was shot and killed by police responding. It is unfortunate that an almost scripted response will begin on each side, neither useful, both distracting, and ultimately, both used to fuel hatred of the political opponents. Here’s how it will go down.
The leftists media will make a huge issue about the shooters race (white guy for those not following the news), and proceed to conflate this with a series of assumptions.

  1. “Because he is white, he won’t be called a terrorist.” While it is true that he will not likely be called a terrorist by authorities, it is not because he is white, but because he does not (based on present knowledge) fit any definition of the term terrorist. Please check out a dictionary or a lwa book.
  2. “Yet another mass shooting, time to ban guns.” The killer was a felon on bail, and under the law, should not have been allowed to have firearms. It was a failing of the liberal California (who happen to have incredibly strict gun laws) that allowed him on the streets with weapons.
  3. “Record number of mass shootings since Trump took power.” This is not because there are actually more mass shootings, but because the legal definition of what a mass shooting is has changed. It can now involve no deaths, more than one shooter, non-intended victims, and even take place over a series of crime scenes. Don’t conflate a rise in statistics as a rise in actual incidents.
  4. “Republican, Christian, White Supremacist.” He might well turn out to be all of these or none. But shouting your mouths off without any actual knowledge other than the color of his skin is just plain dumb.

But let’s not let the far right off the hook here. They will make a series of statement s that are equally useless.

  1. “Another False flag operation.” While it is certainly true that false flag operations have taken place, calling every single shooting event a false flag does not make people “wake up.” In fact, if you call every killing a false flag, no one will believe a real one when it happens.
  2. “Leftist, Antifa, Hillary supporter.” Please reread my response to point 4 above. Same answer.
  3. “If more people had guns, this wouldn’t have happened.” This is not a fact, don’t push it as one. It is a supposition.

These are just a few of the arguments that will come out today in the wake of this tragedy. And that’s what it is, a tragedy. Let’s try not to make political hay out of this.

12 thoughts on “Mass Shooting in California: The Circus Begins”

  1. I don’t care if this happens weekly. You will not tamper with the Second amendment. What part of SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED doen’t anybody get? No one’s life -your,s mine, anyone’s kid*s( – is more important than safeguarding our constitutionally protected God-given rights

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  2. Hey Mark?
    I’m neither Right NOR Left, since I have a brain and don’t find myself bleating in support of a bunch of decrepit, face-lifted liars, losers, cheats, thieves, molesters – and traitors, BUT WHEN THE ‘FALSE FLAG’ FACTS SO FUCKING OUTWEIGH THE QUICKLY-DROPPED-AND-FORGOTTEN-EVENT (Vegas being a PERFECT example; As REAL reporters got too close to the truth, EVERYONE quickly stopped talking about it – a SURE sign), then yes, ONLY an idiot (or a politician or an Amerikan) could possibly believe the official nonsense.
    That said, what WILL be interesting is to see what – if any – psycho-meds this guy was on – and their efforts to keep it quiet, as Big Pharma cannot ever be seen in a bad light (last night on an ‘off-brand channel’, MASH and Andy Griffith (about all I watch) had probably 15 ads for 4 different drugs, one with a VERY catch little tune that made me WANT TO TRY IT! Don’t know if I need it, but it seemed so…..fun…you know? That tune!). AND THAT COST!?
    Jesus Christ on a skillet. We ARE THE DUMBEST NATION ON THE PLANET, as author Alan Hart once stated, but of course, the ‘answer’ will be more gun laws that stop nothing, save turning civilians into felons, more ‘featureless’ insanity (and dollars-to-donuts, IF someone uses a ‘featureless’ – THEY’LL ALL CALL IT AN ‘ASSAULT WEAPON’), because hiding a pistol grip and taking off the muzzle threads could only be thought up by politicians as ‘a step forward’, because I can assure you;
    If this guy wanted to kill, he’d have found the way and means without a gun, and you just cannot stop a zealot or a nut.
    Except maybe by an ARMED civilian.
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