Actions speak a whole lot louder than words. After every active shooting incident, the left, progressives and anti-gun zealots get their rants and faces all over the corporate and cable news sites.
They take what are indeed tragedies and spin them to their own political aims. There are a great many things that they don’t mention. They never talk about what laws the gunman violated, both prior, and during the shooting spree. They never mention this because it is so obvious that laws don’t discourage criminals who are intent on committing crimes.
Despite their fake tears and their seemingly passionate rhetoric, these far left partisans really care nothing about the victims. They only care about the victims as children, racial minorities or their sexual preference, so they can increase the public’s emotional response. They want to use these poor victims as tools to further tribalize us into separate, antagonistic groups. The status of the shooter is only important to them if that criminal is a White, heterosexual male, that the media hacks can characterize as a White supremacist, White nationalist, Ku Klux Klan member, or other racist.
If the gunman isn’t a White heterosexual male, then the leftist media will focus their attention on the gun. They really don’t care about the mental state of the shooter, or the lack of proper medical and psychological evaluations for the mentally disturbed. The media thrust is always that there are too many guns and too much ammo capacity for guns. The tilt of reporting is to imply that the only way to prevent these tragedies is to eliminate all guns. The talking heads won’t say that straight out, because more and more people are becoming aware that it is not the guns that need to be controlled, it is the thug pulling the trigger.
One can easily determine that these wokesters, progressives and left media don’t care about the victims, because, where they are in power, they eliminate or won’t use laws that enhance sentences for using guns in the commission of a crime. For instance, California had a law, Penal Code Section 12022.53, that enhanced criminal sentences for using a gun. In addition to the sentence the crook received for whatever crime he or she was convicted, there was an enhancement of an additional 10 years if a gun was used during the commission of that crime. There was an additional 20 years if the gun was fired and 25 to life if anyone was killed or seriously injured.
In 2021, California Governor Newsom signed into law two bills. SB 81 basically gutted Section 12022. 53 of the Penal Code, eliminating gun sentencing enhancements and SB 483 which allows the retroactive repeal of sentence enhancements for prior prison or county jail felony terms. Newsom also signed AB 333. This bill restricts the use of sentence enhancements for gang crimes.
California’s ultra-progressive legislature and governor are emblematic of all of the other left leaning jurisdictions. Whenever a shooting incident occurs, they start yammering about more gun control. If they really cared about the victims of gun violence, they would continue and/or increase enhancement for those who use a gun to commit crime. Their actions in the opposite direction prove that it’s not really about gun control, it’s meant to control noncriminal gun owners.
1 thought on “It’s Not About Gun Control – Buz Blog”
Yes indeed. Today’s news is more propaganda or created distorted facts of an incident. It’s scary that many or most people will not capture the truthful elements but rather accept the narrative of the reporter.
Imagine the future with much less thinking and questioning in public schools and lax controls on hand held communication devices with Tic-Toc running and the lost attention span with their fast passed visuals.
Racism has no place in society. As Martin Luther King Jr. stated, let all people be judged by their character and behavior and not their skin color
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