Monday, April 10, 2023

IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE RIGHT DECIDES THAT CIVIL LIBERTIES AREN'T AVAILABLE TO LIBERALS

Four people were shot and killed today at a Louisville bank; the killer has been identified as a 23-year-old bank employee named Connor Sturgeon.

The right has already assigned blame -- not to the shooter, but to liberalism and the Democratic Party. As you may know, right-wingers believe that every mass shooter is a Democrat -- it's not true, and many widely circulated lists of Democratic shooters are inaccurate, but right-wingers have been saying this for years. Sturgeon has been labeled a Democrat on the basis of one or more social media memes critical of Donald Trump, as well as comments expressing gratitude for work-from-home policies at the height of the pandemic. So here's Sebastian Gorka with a little Radio Rwanda-style demonization:


Oh, and Sturgeon's LinkedIn page included pronouns. Gorka again:


Just before I retired, my company began encouraging employees to add pronouns to their names on email, and most of us did it. To the right, this is "gender ideology." It's evil.

Gateway Pundit commenters have a few thoughts:
This is proving once again, that all mass shooters are delusional liberal joe biden supporters!

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Another liberal limp wristed swish shoots up the place....what else is new.

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When applying for a gun or CCL, there should be a field for pronoun. If a person fills that out, that should be the red flag to deny them. Just sayin...

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Also one for "registered Democrat" - should have a 10 year waiting period - should be enough time for them to just go bonkers! FJB

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Checking a box indicating "registered Democrat" should be a flat-out lifetime denial.

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Because of Leftist education, Democrat propaganda (MSM), and Big Pharma we now have the most depressed, anxious, neurotic, violent, and Suicidal kids and young adults than ever in the history of the United States.

The left has caused mental instability and then celebrated and coddled the mentally unstable. They are sowing discord and drumming up violence.

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The only gun control law we need is to ban all dems from owning guns.

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Guns don't kill people. Demokkkrats and leftists with guns do.

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- Democrats have a mental illness problem.
- Guns are inanimate objects incapable of violence without a Democrat pulling the trigger.
I know, I know: This is just random people mouthing off in the comments at a fringy site. But then explain the logic of the pardon Governor Greg Abbott is seeking for the convicted murderer of a Black Lives Matter protester:
... on Saturday, July 25, 2020, [Daniel] Perry, a sergeant stationed at Fort Hood and working as a rideshare driver in Austin, accelerated his car into a crowd of protesters at the corner of Fourth Street and Congress Avenue. Garrett Foster, a 28-year-old Air Force veteran openly carrying an AK-47 across his chest, approached the car. The driver's side window opened and Perry shot Foster four times in the chest and abdomen. Perry turned himself in to Austin police seconds later, claiming he'd shot in self-defense after Foster raised the barrel of his gun....

The testimony confirming Perry's anger toward protesters came on the third day of the trial as prosecutors displayed text messages and social media comments showing that he thought about killing them. "I might have to kill a few people on my way to work, they are rioting outside my apartment complex," Perry wrote to a friend in June of 2020. "I might go to Dallas to shoot looters," he wrote on another occasion. Perry also encouraged violence in a variety of social media posts.

In addition, Perry speculated about how he might get away with such a killing – by claiming self-defense, as he is now doing. Prosecutors presented a Facebook Messenger chat between Perry and a friend, Michael Holcomb, which occurred two weeks before he shot Foster. In it, Perry argued that shooting protesters was legal if it was in self-defense....

In his recorded 911 call, played on the fourth day of the trial, Perry claims that he drove into the protesters by mistake after taking a wrong turn. Body-camera video played the next day shows Perry, after being taken into custody, telling officers Foster had pointed his gun at him. "I didn't know he was going to aim it at me," Perry says. "I thought he was going to kill me ... I've never been so scared in my life."

This claim – that Foster raised the barrel of his AK-47 ... was refuted over and over during the first three days of the trial by witnesses who were near Foster that night. All repeated a version of the same story: They heard squealing tires as a car sped into a group of about 20 protesters. The protesters, some of whom had almost been hit by the car, slapped and kicked it. Garrett Foster strode to the car's side and issued an order to the driver. All of the witnesses insisted that Foster did not raise the barrel of his gun. According to the D.A.'s lead prosecutor, Guillermo Gonzalez, his gun was recovered with the safety still on and no bullet in the chamber.
The only logical justification for Abbott's pursuit of a pardon for Perry after a jury convicted him on the evidence and the law is that a left-leaning person with a gun doesn't really have rights, even in a gun-loving state, if those rights conflict with the right of a conservative gun owner to ... do whatever the hell he wants when faced with left-leaning people he doesn't like.

Obviously, we'd need to go quite a few steps down the slippery slope before all liberals are disarmed, but when you have legislators half-seriously calling for bans on the Democratic Party, and when it's legal in some locales to mow down protesters with your car -- a law I assume will be applied only when the protesters are on the left -- then we're at least heading in the direction of second-class citizenship, or worse, for liberals and Democrats.
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