Liberals trying to use Orlando massacre as tool for gun control
When news of the mass murder at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando hit the press, I'm quite sure that the liberal left was drooling at the thought that the perpetrator would turn out to be a right-wing Christian, anti-gay, racist homophobe and NRA member.
Imagine the disapointment when they learned that the shooter was a card carrying anti-gay Democrat and Muslim who called 911 to pledge allegiance to the ISIS leader while he was murdering scores of innocent people.
As usual following a mass shooting, the liberal left in Congress, the press and Hollywood are demanding a ban on so-called assault weapons, or to use the latest leftist descriptor, weapons of war. Be advised that assault rifles, or weapons of war (think machine guns), have been banned in this country for the past 30 years, and the only recent sales of automatic weapons was when then-attorney general, Eric Holder, allowed the sale of these weapons to Mexican drug cartels in “Operation Fast and Furious.”
Informed people know how that turned out.
The killer, in this case, used a Sig Sauer MCX rifle, which is semi-automatic, much like the AR-15, which is the favorite evil weapon of war for the left.
President Obama wasted no time in acting non-presidential during a news conference, essentially throwing a tantrum at the question as to why he continues to refuse to utter the words “radical Islamic terrorism” and to again roll out his tiresome gun control agenda.
Like his one time advisor, Rahm Emanuel, once said: “Never let a crises go to waste.”
The Pulse nightclub in Orlando is a gun free zone, as are all places that sell alcohol in the state of Florida and elswhere. What better place for an attack on unarmed civilians?
Take out the lone security guard, and have at it. Gun free zones are a joke. They are an invitation for succesful mayhem.
Do you think that a few armed-patrons may have been able to limit the carnage in that club?
The writer lives in Murrels Inlet.
This story was originally published June 26, 2016 at 10:44 AM with the headline "Liberals trying to use Orlando massacre as tool for gun control."