Dana Mathewson

In the wake of the two latest mass shootings, it was predictable that at least a few of the occupants of the 2020 Democrat Klown Kar Kandidates have once again politicized the events, calling for "common sense gun laws" (ho hum) and tighter background checks -- though they never say how they will work. Oh yes, and again condemning the NRA as ignoring the wishes of the people and listening only to gun manufacturers, though I've never seen evidence of this reading their magazines.

You'd think they'd maybe have the decency to shut up once in awhile, though I admit that decency never is found in Democrats.

Now I see why they always come up with this drivel. Townhall's Kevin McCullough explains:

There are many questions we are awaiting answers on. . . The major question everyone in America is searching for is, "Why?”

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Politicians that are not currently in power exploit this pain to begin calling for an undoing of Constitution(s) even before the victims have been identified.

Refusing to call culture to account, they campaign on casting the Constitution as inhumane.

Refusing to institute legal and common sense changes that reinforce the rights, and protections of our people with constitutional consistency they point to the tools of the killers as opposed to the killers’ conscience.

Politicians have to do this.

They can’t sound like schizophrenic crazies themselves, harping for people to stop pulling triggers, and on the other hand allow post-birth killing of children to remain legal.

That’s the advantage that you and I enjoy not being a Democratic candidate for president in 2020.

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When the Parkland, Florida shooting took place I penned a short column on seven simple steps that could be taken to immediately end school shootings.

In the aftermath of Parkland the Florida Assembly took up all seven in legislative proposals and adopted (I believe) six of them as final law.

They don’t all apply to a mall in El Paso or a bar in Dayton, but one incredibly important parallel does apply.

Both shootings happened in "gun free zones.” [emphasis added]

Simon Malls, the operators of the Cielo Vista Mall, the scene of the El Paso shooting, bans guns on their property even though Texans are allowed to open and carry concealed.

Similarly eateries that serve alcohol in Dayton, Ohio ban guns. They do so even though Ohio is similar to Texas offering both open and concealed carry options.

We may not know the answer to why the shooters chose to kill. But we know at least part of the reason they chose where to kill.

In gun free zones there is no one to return fire.

In the Texas shooting—if the "manifesto” is confirmed to be that of the shooter’s—it was fairly obvious that he had his doubts that he would survive. The fact that he did is a testament purely to the idea that the 3,000 people in the mall that day simply had no means to respond.

In Ohio, according to an eye-witness report, the gunman was disarmed and killed with his own firearm.

In both instances the killers did not choose to attack a military base, a police department, or a gun range.

Nope, their cowardice took them to places where killing victims was akin to shooting fish in a barrel.

As did the Gilroy, California, and Brooklyn, New York shooters the week before.

Candor forces me to admit that the Democrat candates are not stupid; they know all this. Wouldn't it be refreshing if one of them dared to admit it?

Yeah, I know. Dream on, Dana.

The excellent article is here: https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2019/08/04/the-cowardice-of-mass-shooters-and-the-easy-prey-they-always-target-n2551139

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