Friday, June 19, 2015

A National Tragedy and a Partisan Response

 Political Cartoons by Glenn McCoy
Frontpage "Why do black lives only seem to matter when white people take them? Why does the president of the United States think it’s proper to take a horrible racial tragedy in Charleston South Carolina as an excuse to bash America as the violence capital of the “advanced” world, and a prop for Democrats’  lust for gun control legislation in a state that already has it?

"Last year 82 people were shot over the Fourth of July weekend in Chicago. 16 of them died. The victims and the shooters were black.

"Now two 15-year-olds have already been shot in a single Chicago neighborhood in two days.
. . . 
 "Chicago’s bloody weekends show us that the politicians and reporters haven’t turned their attention to Charleston because they care about dead black people.

"They are there for the psychotic killer, Dylann Storm Roof, not for his victims. They are there for a Southern state with a Republican governor who can be safely blamed the way that their Mayor of Chicago can’t. They are there to use the voiceless dead as convenient props in their campaign for gun control – in a state that already has some of the toughest gun control laws in the South. They don’t care about black people. They care about their political agendas." . . .
 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.


Obama's shameful, phony gun control rhetoric in the wake of Charleston massacre
"If access to firearms were as easy as President Obama insisted in the aftermath of the South Carolina church massacre, Carol Bowne would be alive today. The 39-year-old New Jersey woman with a restraining order against an ex-boyfriend was murdered by that boyfriend while she waited for her application for a gun permit to wind its way through a process that takes at least two months to complete. But it wasn’t completed soon enough" . . .

Standing on the backs of dead people to promote a political agenda 
. . . "But the biggest transgressors against respect for the dead and for the community that is suffering as a result of this tragedy are the racialists who are selling their own brand of hate by suggesting that virtually all white people are racist and potential murderers." . . .

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