Friday, June 17, 2016

What does 'getting weapons of war off our streets' really mean?

Political Cartoons by Henry Payne

American Thinker  . . . "It escapes commentary that the AR-15 and like semi-automatics are ubiquitous in state and city police (including the NYPD) and county sheriffs' departments and SWAT teams everywhere.  See here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

"That these law enforcement officer organizations seek to use these weapons to defend life and property, the exact same motivation as that of virtually all civilians purchasers of those weapons (even with dual purpose hunting use), just shows that the LEOs don't recognize that these are just weapons of war suited only for the battlefield!" . . .

It’s not about stopping shooters, it’s about identity politics.  "In the wake of the San Bernardino shooting, the actor Samuel L. Jackson said that he hoped it would turn out that the killer was a white man. David Sirota wrote the same thing after the Boston marathon bombing, in an article headlined “Let’s hope the Boston marathon bomber is a white American.” Jackson and Sirota were disappointed: Both atrocities were carried out by Muslims of Middle Eastern origin as expressions of solidarity with the worldwide Islamist enterprise." . . . 

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