{"id":88088,"date":"2022-11-26T07:51:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T13:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88088"},"modified":"2022-11-26T07:51:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T13:51:01","slug":"88088","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88088","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Instead of Asking How to Stop Mass Shootings, Left Targets Social Conservatives<\/a><\/p>\n

This week, another evil mass shooter unleashed horror at a gay club in Colorado Springs, killing five and wounding another 25. The shooter\u2014whose name I refuse to mention in order to disincentivize future shooters, who seek notoriety\u2014was clearly mentally ill: Just last year, he reportedly threatened his mother with a bomb, resulting in his arrest.<\/p>\n

Yet Colorado\u2019s red flag law, which could have deprived the shooter of legal access to weaponry, was not invoked by either police or relatives. The Colorado Springs massacre, then, is yet another example of a perpetrator with more red flags than a bullfighting convention, and no one in authority willing to take action to do anything about him.<\/p>\n

Yet the national conversation, as it so often does, now has been directed away from the question at hand\u2014how to prevent mass shootings\u2014and toward broader politics. Instead of seeking methodologies that might be effective in finding and stopping deranged individuals seeking murder without curbing rights and liberties for hundreds of millions of people, our political and media leaders have decided to blame Americans who oppose same-sex marriage, drag queen story hour, and \u201cfamily friendly\u201d drag shows. Disagreement with the radical leftist social agenda amounts to incitement to violence, they argue.<\/p>\n

Thus, NBC News senior reporter Brandy Zadrozny said, \u201cThere is a pipeline. It starts from some smaller accounts online like Libs of Tiktok, it moves to the right-wing blogosphere, and then it ends up on Tucker Carlson or ends up out of a right-wing politician\u2019s mouth, and it is a really dangerous cycle that does have real-world consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michelle Goldberg of The New York Times wrote that \u201cit seems hard to separate [these murders] from a nationwide campaign of anti-LGBTQ incitement. \u2026 They\u2019ve been screaming that drag events \u2026 are part of a monstrous plot to prey on children. They don\u2019t get to duck responsibility if a sick man with a gun took them seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brian Broome wrote in The Washington Post that the shooting could not be \u201cblamed on mental illness.\u201d No, he stated, \u201cIt\u2019s right-wing rhetoric that sparks these nightmares. \u2026 The bottomless list of homophobes and transphobes on the right don\u2019t need to throw the rock and then hide their hands. Instead, they use someone else\u2019s hands entirely.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Left\u2019s attempt to lay responsibility for violence at the feet of anyone who opposes the transgressive social agenda doesn\u2019t stop with blame\u2014it extends to calls for full-scale censorship.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re living in an environment that\u2019s driven by two things,\u201d averred Sarah Kate Ellis, CEO of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. \u201cPoliticians who are using us to bolster their careers by creating division and hate, and number two is social media platforms that are monetizing hate, and especially against marginalized communities. They\u2019re\u2014they\u2019re choosing profits over hate, and it\u2019s killing, literally killing our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Social media, the logic goes, ought to shut down or demonetize any video disagreeing with the GLAAD agenda.<\/p>\n

This is cynical politics at its worst. It\u2019s also nothing new. The Left routinely cites violent incidents as reason to crack down on free speech with which they disagree.<\/p>\n

As the inimitably imbecilic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-Instagram, tweeted: \u201cAfter Trump elevated anti-immigrant & anti-Latino rhetoric, we had the deadliest anti-Latino shooting in modern history. After anti-Asian hate w\/ COVID, Atlanta. Tree of Life. Emanuel AME. Buffalo. And now after an anti-LGBT+ campaign, Colorado Springs. Connect the dots, @GOP.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, according to AOC, virtually every major mass shooting of the past seven years is the result of her political opponents\u2014none of whom has called for violence. But in the world of the Left, disagreement is violence merely waiting to be unleashed. Which is why censorship, they believe, is the only way to achieve a more peaceful world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Instead of Asking How to Stop Mass Shootings, Left Targets Social Conservatives This week, another evil mass shooter unleashed horror at a gay club in Colorado Springs, killing five and wounding another 25. The shooter\u2014whose name I refuse to mention in order to disincentivize future shooters, who seek notoriety\u2014was clearly mentally ill: Just last year, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rkba","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88089,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88088\/revisions\/88089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}