Dancing in Blood

A person who survived the Pulse shooting here in Orlando a decade ago wants to have a discussion about the shooting on a local television news station’s website. The topics, according to him, will be “gun safety” and the rights of the LGTBQIABCDEFG community. This is putting a political spin on things that I think is dishonest. I won’t bother engaging in the discussion- that particular news outlet heavily censors opinions with which they disagree.

First, this man is no more an expert on law and policy than I am. Simply being present when a mass shooting takes place doesn’t give anyone some magical wisdom or insight that enables them to assess public policy. He was there, and for whatever reason, the shooter made the decision to not shoot him. That doesn’t mean he is more qualified on any topic except hide and seek.

Second, and Miguel pointed this out on his own webpage this morning:

Omar Mateen began his killing and maiming rampage at 2:02 am. Police began to arrive at 2:04 am. He was sent to Allah at 5:14 am after killing 49 people and wounding 58 more.

The police stood around outside of the killing ground with their dicks in their hands for over three hours before managing to do a thing about the killer who was inside shooting people. No one is going to talk about that, even though it keeps happening.

Third, this shooter was likely targeting gays because he is Muslim and was carrying out a Jihadist attack. Those sorts of attacks aren’t going to cease, even if you pass a Constitutional Amendment saying that anyone who is gay is a deity. It just isn’t.

Fourth, no one in that bar was armed. The shooter was. Passing a law banning guns isn’t going to work in changing that. Read this list of the twenty deadliest mass murders:

  1. On 9/11, there were 2,996 dead and over 6,000 injured. The weapons used were box cutters and airplanes.
  2. October 31, 1999: Gameel al-Batouti cried out “I entrust myself to Allah” 11 times in Arabic as he deliberately piloted a plane full of passengers into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 217 people.
  3. The Oklahoma City Bombing of 1995. There were 168 dead and over 680 injured. The weapon used was a bomb made from fertilizer and diesel fuel.
  4.  The Hartford Circus Fire. 167 dead, 682 injured. Weapon used: fire
  5.  The Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857. There were 120 settlers killed when their wagon train was ambushed by Mormons. (I hesitated to include this one since it was a group of 20 Mormons who committed the killings, but if you are going to include 9/11, I figured you should include this one.)
  6.  The Happy Land fire of 1990: 87 are killed when a man sets a nightclub on fire.
  7.  The Las Vegas shooting. 58 killed, 413 injured by gunfire. Another 456 injured while fleeing.
  8. The Pulse Nightclub shooting, 2016. 49 dead, 53 injured. The weapon was an MCX rifle.
  9.  The Bath School massacre of 1927: 45 dead, and 58 injured. The weapon used were a pair of bombs.
  10. Pacific Air Flight 773 of 1964: 45 killed when a man murdered the pilot and copilot of an airplane, which subsequently crashed.
  11. United Airlines Flight 629 (1955): A man blew up a plane with a bomb, killing 44 people.
  12. Pacific Southwest Flight Flight 1771 of 1987: 43 people were killed when a man shot and killed the pilot and copilot of the plane, which subsequently crashed.
  13. New York Bombing of September 1920: There were 38 killed and several hundred injured. The weapon was a bomb.
  14. National Airlines Flight 2511 of 1960. 33 people killed by a bomb on an airplane.
  15. Virginia Tech massacre of 2007. 32 dead. The gunman was a South Korean student that had been showing signs of mental instability.
  16. The Upstairs Lounge Fire in New Orleans on June 24, 1973 was an arson that was intended to kill the patrons of a gay bar. It worked, killing 32 and injuring dozens. It was started with a Molotov cocktail.
  17. Newtown School shooting of 2012. 26 dead. The shooter used an AR-15 rifle that he acquired by murdering his mother.
  18. Dorothy Mae Arson of 1982. 25 killed. The arsonist claimed he didn’t mean to kill anyone, and only set the fire because he was stoned on marijuana and angry at his uncle, who was in the building.
  19. The Luby’s Cafeteria Massacre of 1991. A total of 23 people were killed by a spree shooter.
  20. The LA times was attacked with a bomb in 1910, killing 21.

Murder weapon

Of the above 20 killings:

  • 4 of them included an airplane as the murder weapon
  • 10 of them were committed by people using a bomb, incendiary device, or other arson tool
  • 5 were spree shootings
  • 1 (The Mountain Meadows Massacre) was committed by a group of people with multiple weapons, including gunfire, knives, and clubbing)

The fact is that guns have nothing to do with spree killings. In fact, 75 percent of the deadliest spree killings were not performed by firearms. The weapon used most frequently in prolific killings is an incendiary device or bomb.

No, this is a person who abhors guns, and is using his surviving a massacre to give his stance some sort of legitimacy that he wouldn’t otherwise have. He is dancing in the blood of dead victims.

I Can’t Disagree

Steven Crowder has a great piece on the Anthony conviction. He says the people who say “Not all blacks” are ignoring the fact that more than 77% of blacks support reparations. I can’t argue with that. Here is the segment:

There are those who will accuse me of racism for the things I post here. I actually am not, I go where the evidence takes me. The facts are there, and they have proven out decade after decade:

  • A white man in a poor black neighborhood is 12 times more likely to be murdered than his black counterpart, and black man is safer in any white neighborhood than he is in a poor black one.
  • More than half of all murders in this country are committed by the 13% of the US population that is black.
  • 33% of adult Black men had a felony conviction as of 2010
  • 60% of Black male high-school dropouts have been incarcerated by their mid-30s
  • By age 26, about 36% of young Black men have experienced probation and about 31% had experienced incarceration, with rates even higher among those from lower-education family backgrounds

Does that mean all blacks are criminals? No. However, even though the government doesn’t keep the statistics on this (it doesn’t fit the narrative), a black man between the ages of 13 and 30 is more likely to go to prison for a violent crime than he is to be in a successful career like doctor, lawyer, or accountant. In fact, without a college education, black men are statistically more likely to be violent felons than they are not.

That is just what the facts show. If you don’t ignore those facts, or scream about how they prove systemic racism, you are a racist. Following the facts is considered racism.

The problems with black culture that result in black crime, murder, and incarceration will never get fixed if we can’t even discuss the facts. However, we do have some serious race problems in this country. As Crowder points out, 74% of black people say that their race is central to their identity, while only 15% of whites do. That indicates a divide that is simply too wide to be bridged.

So what does that mean to us as a nation? There are too many factions for these States to stay United. The coming collapse is going to be violent, horrific, and involve the deaths of millions.

This is what I meant

When I posted about the Karmelo Anthony guilty verdict, this is what I expected to see:

Zimmerman, Penny, and Chow were all found not guilty. Had this poster just left it at Chauvin and Guyger, the argument would be more valid. Including people who were found to be innocent just makes the poster look foolish. To call it racism is simply retarded.

Then there is this mental midget:

So you want a “do over” that gives Anthony a second bite at the apple because everyone gets one get out of jail card for murder?

Another Tough Guy

Karmelo Anthony was found guilty after only three hours of deliberations. Of course, there are tons of his fellow blacks out there claiming he should get a new trial because his attorney was incompetent. or that he is going to win on appeal. That isn’t how it works, but then again, they don’t understand the law any better than they understand self defense.

Kids Acting Like Kids?

The so- called “teen takeover” trend expanded this past weekend when a large group of “teens” headed to Clearwater Beach and immediately began attacking people before it ended with gunshots. The police chief had this to say:

Deputy Chief of the Clearwater Police Department, Michael Walek, held a press conference around 8:30 p.m., where he said the incident was organized through social media and that it happened because of a “bunch of kids acting like kids,” claiming that this kind of incident would not happen again. 

Kids shooting each other is actung like kids? That’s because it’s “teens”

Race Card

A black woman parks in a handicap spot without a permit. She has a warrant. She has no license. But the cop is picking on her because she is black.