After a gang shooting, who should be deprived of guns?

Beto says those people being shot must have no weapons of any kind; zip. Nada. Bupkis

 After a gang shooting, who should be deprived of guns? - American Thinker

. . ."Sacramento sheriff Scott Jones has already blamed the loss of lives on April 3 on soft-on-crime California policies that "treat criminals like victims."  The Biden administration, however, will not demand stronger prosecution, or increased sentences, for those guilty of murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and illegal possession of firearms.  Like all good leftists, it will instead call for even more of what are meaninglessly termed "commonsense gun laws": the elimination of certain types of rifles and pistols (most developed a century or more ago) and further prohibitions on the ownership or carry of all firearms by the law-abiding for self-defense.  The administration will attempt to curtail the sales of gun parts and sub-assemblies, alleging that their lack of serial numbers appeals to criminals who assemble them into "ghost guns."  Alas, criminals have all the black-market guns they need.

"None of this will stop crime.  The people affected by the new legislation the administration will propose very rarely commit crimes.  Their intent is to protect themselves from violence by the most effective means available: the private ownership and carry of a weapon.  They obey the law.  They dutifully undergo background checks, apply for permits, and take training courses as required.  They present no threat to the public.

"Like the armed citizens of any free nation, they do present a threat to those with designs on freedom.  It is for that reason that they, not criminals, have legislative targets on their backs."

Hammer attacks, track shoves and fatal stabbings: Out-of-control violent crime on NYC subways spiked 50% in the 12 months before today's subway shooting

It's Mayor David Dinkins all over again.

 The out-of-control crime on NYC subway that spiked 50% in a year before horror subway shootin | Daily Mail Online

• Uber and Lyft both said they suspended 'surge pricing' algorithms after facing backlash for upcharging  those fleeing Tuesday's Brooklyn subway shooting  
• After a gunman injured 16 at the 36th Street subway station, those using ridesharing services to leave the Sunset Park area were met with sky-high fares
•  Some users reported paying double the typical rate amid the chaos
•  Four hours after the shooting, Uber tweeted that it had capped pricing citywide, with Lyft following suit
• A manhunt is still underway for the 36th Street Station shooter, who shot 10 and injured six more with smoke bombs during rush hour on Tuesday

A defiant Frank Abrokwa, 37, is pictured showing a rude hand gesture as he is led into Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday for violating the conditions of his release 

"At least six people were stabbed on NYC subways after NYC Mayor Eric Adams announced his new Subway Safety Plan"

"The suspect, believed to be a man in his 30s, was described as wearing a colorful vest over a gray hoodie. He has not been arrested as of Monday morning. 

"Sunday's incident capped off a violent weekend, which saw at least five other people assaulted in the subway system in a span of 48 hours. 

"On Friday evening - just hours after Adams and Hochul unveiled a new subway safety plan - a man was slashed in the forearm at the Briarwood subway station in Queens and was hospitalized in stable condition, reported NBC New York. 

"At around 3 a.m. on Saturday, a 46-year-old homeless man was stabbed multiple times in the thigh and buttocks during a robbery attempt at Jamaica station in queens

"About 12 hours later, a man punched a 20-year-old woman on the 3 train platform at Livonia and Van Siclen Avenue in Brooklyn. An argument ensued, during which police say the male attacker pulled out a knife and stabbed the woman three times in the abdomen. The victim was hospitalized in stable condition.

"At around 8.30 p.m. on Saturday, a 24-year-old man was standing on the A-C-E platform in the 168th Street station in Manhattan when police say he was stabbed by two teens during a botched robbery attempt.". . .

Brooklyn subway shooting suspect was on FBI's terrorist radar until 2019 (ampproject.org)

BROOKLYN SUBWAY SHOOTING - WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR

• Unidentified gunman wearing grey hoodie and green construction vest opened fire on northbound N train at 8.24am 
• He is known to the FBI, having been on their radar in New Mexico until he was cleared following 'multiple interviews' in 2019 
• He is believed to have travelled from New Mexico, and then rented a U-Haul in Philadelphia
• That U-Haul was found five miles from the scene on King's Highway, Brooklyn 
• A credit card found on the scene of the shooting matched the credit card used to rent the U-Haul 
• The suspect put on a gas mask then detonated a smoke bomb that was in his bag before firing the first shots
• Panicked commuters tried to flee into the next subway car but the door was locked - they were trapped until the train reached 36th street 
• The gunman somehow vanished in the chaos - some fear he may have jumped onto the tracks and entered the subway tunnels 
• Police found a .380 handgun and three extended magazines in backpack at the Brooklyn station  
• Sixteen people were taken to NYC hospitals - ten were shot, four suffered smoke inhalation and another two were in shock 
• NYPD is going door-to-door in Brooklyn asking for information, surveillance camera footage and pictures 
• Anyone with information about the shooting or gunman is urged to call 800 577 TIPS 

Woke Mob Hunts Down Student Who Invited Col. Allen West to Speak at U. Buffalo

 Woke Mob Hunts Down Student Who Invited Col. Allen West to Speak at U. Buffalo (legalinsurrection.com)

"A student mob disrupted the event and was so threatening that West had to be escorted off campus by police.

"The student who organized the event had to hide from the mob in a bathroom as they hunted her down.

"Andrea Cavallier reports at the Daily Mail:

Terrifying moment female conservative University of Buffalo student is ‘hunted down’ by woke mob screaming ‘no justice, no peace,’ after she invited prominent black Republican to speak

A University of Buffalo student said she was ‘hunted down’ by a woke mob screaming ‘no justice, no peace,’ after she invited prominent black Republican Lt. Col. Allen West to speak on how he overcame racism.

Therese Purcell, president of the Young Americans for Freedom, a campus club that organized the event, said she and her fellow members only wanted to bring these open dialogues of racism to campus.

But protests erupted after the filled-to-capacity event, leading to an angry mob that chased Purcell, leaving her afraid of what would have happened if she wasn’t able to hide from them.

She shared terrifying footage of the incident online, and says it left her fearing for her life, Fox & Friends First reported.". . . 

 

What the Left Has Done to Women

 Dennis Prager

"Barack and I..."

"As I have documented on a number of occasions, the Left ruins everything it touches. There is no exception. From universities to high schools and now including even elementary schools, to latenight TV, to sports, to the arts and, increasingly, science, the Left is a destruction machine. 

"And nowhere is this damage more evident or tragic than with regard to women. 

"In fact, nothing demonstrates the power of left-wing ideology as much as what this ideology has done to women. So powerful is leftist ideology, it is more powerful than women's nature. 

"Here are five examples: 

"No. 1: The Desire to Bond with a Man 

"For all of recorded history, virtually all women sought a man with whom to bond. Of course, a progressive would argue that this was true only because all societies implanted this desire in women or because societal pressure gave women little choice about the matter. It is not, progressives would argue, innate to female nature to yearn for a man. 

"But whatever the reason -- innate nature or societal expectation -- it is a fact that women desiring a man was virtually universal. 

"Then along came modern left-wing feminism, which communicated to generations of young women through almost every influence in their lives -- most especially teachers and the media -- that a woman doesn't need a man. 

"In the witty words of one feminist aphorism, "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." 

"Unfortunately, however, the reality is most women need a man just as most men need a woman. Most men don't fully grow up without a woman, and most women don't fully grow up without a man (I am, of course, referring to heterosexual women and men). If you need proof, ask almost any married person, man or woman, if marriage matured them. 

"No. 2: The Desire to Marry. . ."

With CPI now hitting 8.5%, Jen Psaki's bid to blame Putin gets old fast

 

Monica Showalter

"Because of the actions were taken to address the 'Putin Price Hike,' we are in a better place than we were last month, but we expect March ... CPI headline inflation to be extraordinarily elevated due to 'Putin's Price Hike', and we expect a large difference between core and headline inflation, reflecting the global disruptions in energy and food markets," Psaki said.

. . .She still claims that the whole fiasco was Russian president Vladimir Putin's doing, and America's economy is simply helpless in the face of Russia's gargantuan and merciless economic shadow.

"In other words, the mighty $21.4-trillion American economy is subordinate to the whims, the crushing boot, of a feudal, puny, and stunted Russian economy, which at $1.65 trillion GDP doesn't even best Texas's, the latter of which clocked in at $1.9 trillion in 2021.

"Gas prices are cited as the root of the inflation, and Psaki gaslights with alacrity on the matter in her statement above, but none of what she says has any basis in fact.

"The U.S. imports about 60% of its oil from foreign suppliers now that Joe Biden has ended U.S. energy independence.  Of that 60%, 8% was from Russia, and according to NBC News, that amounted to about 2% of what the U.S. consumed.  Cutting off Russian oil imports, as Congress has forced Biden to do, doesn't exactly make a significant dent in U.S. oil availability, even if the global price of oil goes up.  And amazingly, energy production is still being repressed here in the States by Biden, which could fill that hole in a matter of three or four months according to energy industry insiders.  Joe prefers to beg dictators to make up the difference, as well as squander the strategic reserves, and yell loudly about "going green."  And somehow, that tiny impact is enough to send food prices spiraling to ever higher levels, as the FDA warned last month here. ". . .

Manchin: Quit the "Putin price hike" blame-shifting on inflation already – HotAir

The dotted line is Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Oh, wait, it's not.

It's Biden's inauguration. pic.twitter.com/4JYsxGBqDd

— Brad Polumbo 🇺🇸⚽️ 🏳️‍🌈 (@brad_polumbo) April 11, 2022

. . ."It’s been a long, strange trip from “dissent is patriotic” and “the resistance” on the Left to “criticizing our Dear Leader is treasonous,” eh? The criticism in this case is well earned, especially for the gaslighting attempts to claim that inflation only became a problem when Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. As the above chart shows, annualized inflation went above the 2% target used by the Federal Reserve immediately after the passage of Biden’s bloated American Rescue Act in March 2021, and with the exception of a short pause in the late spring has been accelerating ever since. 

11 Examples Of How Evil Is Growing In America Like A Cancerous Tumor

 

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

11 Examples Of How Evil Is Growing In America Like A Cancerous Tumor - Freedom Outpost (investortimes.com)

"Have you heard of “arterial tapping,” “flakka” or “cyberextortion”?  In America today, just about every conceivable type of evil that you could possibly name is growing, and we are even inventing new kinds of evil that the world has never seen before.  It is very easy for us to point to the looting and violence in Baltimore and call that evil, but there is far more to the social decay of America than just that.  The foundations of our society are rotting and decaying in thousands of different ways, and our biggest problem as a nation is what is found inside our own hearts.  We have rejected the values and principles that were handed down to us by previous generations of Americans because we believed that we knew better than they did.  But now look at us.  Our country is falling apart all around us, and we only have ourselves to blame.  The following are 11 examples of how evil is growing in America like a cancerous tumor…". . .

#2 A school principal in Wisconsin is in hot water for approving a poster that encourages young men to protect the character of the young women they are taking to prom.  In the old days, this would only be common sense.  But these days, the poster is being condemned as “sexist” and has created a national scandal…

 #10 So much of our social decay is rooted in the decline of the American family.  Sadly, the truth is that our families have been steadily deteriorating for decades.  The following comes from a recent article by Dennis Prager…

. . ."Jonathan Cahn, the author of The Mystery of the Shemitah, believes that America is making many of the very same mistakes that ancient Israel did…

“They Drove God Out Of The Government. They Worshiped Idols And Served Other Gods. They Celebrated Immorality And They Persecuted Righteousness. The Blessings Of God Were Removed And Replaced With Judgments,” He Said. 

Pope Francis Abandons Christ’s Cross to Appease Muslims

 Raymond Ibrahim  "Pope Francis is at it again. Although it is traditional for papal podiums to depict the crucifix, during his recent visit to the island of Malta, Pope Francis ditched the cross lest he offend Muslim migrants.  As the archdiocese of Malta openly admitted, “The podium will not be adorned with a crucifix, given that the majority of migrants are Muslim.”

"Instead, the podium backdrop used by Francis consisted of recycled plastic bottles with red blobs meant to highlight the two primary reasons Francis was visiting Malta -- to defend migrants and the environment: “When you look deeper, you will see that the sea is made of recycled plastic bottles, because there is more plastic than fish in our sea,” artistic director Carlo Schembri explained. “And the red blobs are life jackets -- the lives of people lost at sea.”

"While this was meant to highlight the hazards illegal Muslim migrants experience crossing the Mediterranean, one wonders but doubts if Francis remembered the dozens of Christians who were intentionally thrown overboard and drowned in the Mediterranean by their Muslim counterparts for their faith.

"Meanwhile, Dr. Philip Beattie, an economist at the University of Malta, explained the reality of his island’s migrant situation: “The majority of the illegal immigrants trafficked to Malta on rickety boats leaving the Libyan coastline are not genuine refugees, but economic migrants -- and are mainly Muslim young men aged between 18 and 28.”

"Beattie also got to the heart of the matter:

Saint Paul preached “Christ crucified -- a stumbling block to Jews and
foolishness to Gentiles” [1 Cor. 1:23] when he brought the gospel to Malta. The Apostle boasted in the scandal of the Cross. Why is the pope ashamed of the Cross before Muslims, especially during Lent?

"Perhaps it’s not just shame; perhaps Francis, whose Maltese mission was to support the many Muslim migrants who have flooded the tiny island, removed the cross as a precaution, lest irate Muslims cause a scene and thus compromise his presentation of them as poor victims in need of more state aid and concessions.  After all, and as is well documented in this article, past and present, Muslims have engaged in an unwavering pattern of desecrating and destroying the cross, including in Christian cemeteries.

"The fact that this shameful spectacle took place in Malta is especially ironic, . . ."

Saudi television viciously mocks Biden

Thomas Lifson  "The whole world knows that Joe Biden is a husk of a man, mentally and physically not up to the job.  On top of the danger that his sheer incompetence poses for Americans comes the risk that enemies and less friendly countries (and even allies) will be tempted to defy or take advantage of the vanished leadership at the top of the federal government.

"One country that has moved away from the status of ally thanks to the Biden administration's insane backing of Iran through giveaway "negotiations" over restoring the JCPOA nuclear deal is Saudi Arabia.  Media there are careful not to offend the government, so the following broad satire of an utterly decrepit Biden no doubt reflects government attitudes toward the man occupying the post that used to be called "leader of the free world."

"Via Grabien:

And then there is this:

https://youtu.be/ybRwtU8odCc

For the first time i see the Saudi TV mocking the US administration. pic.twitter.com/8vPtU0txJ8

— Asaad Sam Hanna (@AsaadHannaa) April 12, 2022

What is a ghost gun?

Guns with the serial number obliterated

‘The Five’ react to Biden’s new gun ban - YouTube

 No, "ghost guns" are not the weapon of choice of criminals.

"Of course he will not reference the very easily identifiable fact that most crimes involving firearms is committed with handguns. How about legislatures create harsher penalties for crimes involving firearms and prosecutors and judges enforce those harsher penalties."

Pelosi Said That AOC Wanted to be 'Queen Bee' of the Left –

 PJ Media  "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that radical Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Pramila Jayapal were vying to be the “queen bee” of the left in Congress, and it almost cost the party their majority in 2020.

"The revelation appears in the new book This Will Not Pass by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns.

"Pelosi is worried that her party’s radical cultural policies will doom Democrats going forward."

Daily Mail:

She reportedly told one senior lawmaker that Democrats had alienated Asian and Hispanic immigrants with loose talk of socialism and callousness about abortion.

The 82-year-old Italian Catholic speaker said that with immigrant communities, ‘Democrats had not been careful enough about the way they spoke about abortion among new Americans who were devout people of faith,’ according to excerpts obtained by Punchbowl News.

Pelosi’s chief spokesperson Drew Hammill told DailyMail.com of the excerpts: ‘Many books will be written about the challenges of legislating during the pandemic and a period of unprecedented Republican obstruction, and we won’t be commenting on the works that substitute gossip for fact.’

"Many Hispanic immigrants have come from failed socialist states in Central and South America. The last thing they want to see is a government going down the exact same path that caused them to leave their homes in the first place.".. . .

AOC vs PELOSI cartoon – Besttrumpmemes.com

Brian Stelter Invites Guest to Trash Fox News, Gets Shocked When He Turns the Tables Against CNN

 Brian Stelter Invites Guest to Trash Fox News, Gets Shocked When He Turns the Tables Against CNN – RedState

. . ."His focus on Fox News can at times seem like he’s covering for his own network’s numerous issues in reporting and management.

"That brings us to his show this weekend, which featured Yale assistant professor Joshua Kalla as a guest. Kalla ran a study on partisanship in media coverage, which almost assuredly meant that he would be blasting Fox News for what they do and don’t cover and how they cover issues. And, to be fair, he did.

"But Kalla insisted that Fox News isn’t the only guilty party.". . .

Yale's Joshua Kalla Tells Brian Stelter CNN is Partisan (mediaite.com)   Video

U.S. Military changing uniform regulations, fitness standards to be more woke, inclusive; Democrat-mandated

"Chesty" Puller: The Most Decorated Marine In American History (brain-sharper.com)  What vwould General "Chesty" Puller think of all this"
Marines On Peleliu - Bing images Circle all the "woke" and "Inclusive" Marines in these photos.

 U.S. Military changing uniform regulations, fitness standards to be more woke, inclusive - American Thinker   "Various branches of the U.S. military, long steeped in tradition, are now making changes… to accommodate wokeness.

"For example, the U.S. Marine Corps is altering its uniform regulations. The erstwhile “Leathernecks” are introducing new maternity clothes for pregnant Marines. Other changes include an allowance of increased hair length, the edging up of one's hairline, and additional manicure options for female Marines. I guess this shouldn’t be too surprising since even the Navy SEALS have gone woke."

"First Lt. Phillip Parker, a spokesman for the Marine Corps Training and Education Command, recently told the Marine Corps Times the changes are intended to help "positively impact diversity, equity and inclusion.”

"Inclusion? In the Marines? Is this a good idea? Would femininity have aided the Devil Dogs on Bataan or Corregidor in WWII? Should people of all genders, ages and physical fitness levels be welcomed into the Corps? Should diversity, equity and inclusion trump combat readiness and effectiveness and the ability to protect and aide your fellow Marine —and, if necessary—carry him off the battlefield…dead or alive?

"Not to be outdone, the U.S. Army has made significant changes to its fitness program. The six-event Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) will no longer be meant to prepare soldiers for combat, but instead will simply serve as a general fitness assessment. It will also have different scoring standards for men and women across different age groups. Most of the standards will be lowered, of course, after a congressionally mandated report from Rand Corporation found that nearly half of the service’s women could not pass earlier standards for the test.". . .

Finally, in a stirring show of diversity, equity and inclusion, all branches of the military will announce that their service members may choose to wear rainbow, lesbian or transgender pride flag pins on their uniforms in place of the traditional unit pins or pins of the American flag. Now that’s cohesiveness. Bring on China.

If you have a family tradition of being and voting Democrat, remember this is no longer THAT Democrat Party. They have morphed into something grotesque, an aberration. TD 

Did Sgt. John Basilone say triggering and insensitive things in this HBO scene from "The Pacific"?