There are going to be a lot more of these mass shootings in the coming months and years and it has become abundantly clear that nobody in government or in the media gives a shit about trying to fix the problem.

I have been following social media and the news today and it has been nothing but a raging dumpster fire.

CNN correspondent and piece of human garbage Chris Cuomo spent his hour-long show in El Paso going on and on about Trump’s rhetoric and white supremacism.

The El Paso shooter’s manifesto was filled with white supremacist garbage so CNN decided to use it to attack Trump.  Their desire to ignore the Dayton shooter was glaringly obvious.

Online, the situation was worse.

By and large, those people associated with the political Left used the El Paso shooter as a proxy for all white men or Republicans or Trump supporters.

The Social Justice Activists and Feminists were out in force with “white men are the real terrorists.”

The fucking awful New York Daily News ran this truly despicable headline:

Ethnicity, terrorism and me: When will we start scrutinizing white Americans’ friends, families and places of worship?

The point isn’t to try and stop these shootings, the point is to make white people feel the same way that Muslims did after 9/11 and Fort Hood.

Then there were those on the Right who responded to all of this with “but what about the Daytona shooter, he was a Lefty.”

Nobody, virtually nobody online or on TV had any interest in doing anything remotely fucking constructive.  Instead, the whole point was to just dig at the other side.

As long as the focus is on “how can this shooting get me air time to attack my political opponents” than nothing will get done to prevent the next one.

Let me clue you in on something.  It doesn’t matter one iota that the El Paso shooter was a white supremacist or the Dayton shooter was a Lefty.  Their violence came from exactly the same place.

White supremacism isn’t a cause, it is a symptom.

It is a cult that attracts losers who are miserable.  They are unemployed or work shit dead-end jobs.  They have money troubles.  They have girl problems.  They suck.  So they latch onto an ideology that allows them to blame others for their problems.

The Dayton shooter was, fundamentally, no different.  He wasn’t a white supremacist.  He had a rape list of all the girls that rejected him that he wanted to have sex with.  That’s solid evidence that he was an incel, or at least was heading in that direction.

It’s the same fucking thing.  White supremacists blame their miserly on race.  Incels blame it on women and hookup culture.  Both are cults of losers who are lonely and miserable and don’t have the introspection to fix themselves.

They lash out with violence because hate is all they have left in them from their cult of misery.

So if we wanted to actually fucking do something, we should investigate why so many young men are so miserable.  Why their lives are not progressing in a positive way.  And why they are drawn into a destructive online cult of hate.

But that requires that people do real work, and nobody in DC or TV or Twitter apparently has any time for real work.  The outrage machine feeds clicks and likes and air time for ad revenue, and speaking fees and contributions.  There is money to be made taking digs at the other side.

So what we get is “your side is full of white supremacists who are the real threat to America and now it’s time that white men are made to suffer.”

“No, it’s your side because this guy was a Bernie/Warren fan.”

“It’s the NRA’s fault.  The gun makers have blood on their hands.”

FUCK!!!

All that is going to happen is that more young men are going to fall down the rabbit hole of internet hate groups and more of them are going to kill people.

And the powers that be are going to respond with more political finger-pointing, and using every shooting as nothing but an excuse to push their agenda and dig at their opponents.

The problem will not be fixed.  Our leaders can’t prioritize anything over scoring political points.

So another shooting will happen and once again I’m going to have to worry about politicians attacking gun rights or video games or something else irrelevant to the actual cause of these shootings.

Nobody important gives enough of a shit to do anything meaningful so this will keep happening.

Let’s review:

→Revoke the licenses of gun manufacturers & dealers that break the law

I am pretty sure that is what’s in the law and ATF is in charge of already.

→Require anyone who sells more than 5 guns/yr to run a background check on all gun sales.

Anybody who engages in the business of selling guns, needs a license and perform background checks. But even if he is not in the business and is selling his collection of 7 Ruger 10-22s, how the flock are you gonna enforce that law?

  →Ban the importation of AR-15-style assault weapons

Yes! Because we need to stop those high capacity death machines manufactured in Nepal and Bolivia!

I barely recall that a incense to manufacture was given to Taiwan way back in Reagan years, I think.  But importing AR 15s?  Coals to Newcastle.

This is interesting stuff. 

I have been collecting American mass murders for a year and a half now, starting in 1657.  I have identified 504 incidents with 6568 dead, d I know of least 300 more mass murders to add. (Definition: Three or more murdered in a 24 hour period, and of course excluding acts of war by state actors.)  Just over 26% of these mass murders have either severe mental illness or likely mental ill as the proximate cause.  The attached graphs come from my spreadsheet of horror.  You will notice two major bursts of mental illness caused mass murders: one in the 1860s and 1870s coincident with our first war that produced noticeable PTSD.  The second rise is after the state mental hospital system was destroyed in the 1960s and 1970s.  Of course, this includes all mass murders, of which less than half involve firearms.  Axes, hatchets, knives, and poison have always been very popular.

I do believe this study is going to be very enlightening. Keep an eye on Clayton.

While everyone else was busy blaming Trump for the El Paso shooting, another tragedy was unfolding on Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Twitter feed.

Hey @senatemajldr – these young men look like they work for you.

Just wanted to clarify: are you paying for young men to practice groping & choking members of Congress w/ your payroll, or is this just the standard culture of #TeamMitch?

Thanks. https://t.co/ysRJuwonUx

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 6, 2019

I’m not going to defend what these boys were doing.

It was totally inappropriate.  Regardless of how you feel about another politician, posing making demeaning gestures with a cardboard cutout of that politician is wrong.

These boys need a dad to say:

“Guys, that is inappropriate behavior.  You are acting as volunteer representatives of the Senate Majority Leader and the GOP as a whole, it is important that you conduct yourselves accordingly.  Do not treat other politicians with such disrespect.  You win people over when you are better.  It’s good that you are enthusiastic, but it is important to behave with character and dignity.  If you wouldn’t be proud if your mom or grandma saw what you are doing, don’t do it.”

In a civilized, Twitter free world, people would understand that.

No, we don’t live in that world.  We live in a world run by social media.

In that world, a bunch of teenage boys doing a dumb teenage boy thing must be destroyed.

let’s get some facial recognition on these little turds and start emailing their future colleges

— rstevens 69 ?? (@rstevens) August 6, 2019

Keep in mind, nobody was hurt.  It was an inappropriate photo taken with a cardboard cutout, yet rstevenes69 here thinks that these boys should have the rest of their lives ruined.

This call to go after these boys’ chance to ever go to college was not an isolated Tweet.

Names. College admission applications.

— ~.*kells*.~ (@girl_kells) August 6, 2019

I’m sure there’s people on Twitter who know the names of these BOZOS, REVEAL them!
Are they simulating groping, sexually abusing @AOC?
I’m sure if they’ve applied to a college or university the admissions board would want to think twice about admitting them
DISGRACEFUL BEHAVIOR pic.twitter.com/nNdaFqQ5Gf

— Bruno Hugo (@BHPIII13) August 6, 2019

Are they simulating groping, sexually abusing @AOC?
I’m sure if they’ve applied to a college or university the admissions board would want to think twice about admitting them
DISGRACEFUL BEHAVIOR pic.twitter.com/nNdaFqQ5Gf

— Bruno Hugo (@BHPIII13) August 6, 2019

Names and college application destinations, please. Looks like some young men need a lesson in consequence.

— Jonathan Kraus (@kraus_jonathan) August 6, 2019

I’m not including the Tweets, but there are already responses naming these kids and doxxing them.

If threatening their college futures wasn’t enough, some people thought the appropriate response was to saddle them with a criminal record.

Imagine the response if it was a group of Latinos posing like this with a Melania Trump cutout. They’d be rounded up and arrested. Those white boys should be arrested. I look at this act as threatening sexual and physical violence on a woman. One of the women that Trump attacked.

— Graham Selby (@GrahamSelby2) August 6, 2019

Then there were those who decided that political alignment is a factor of pathology

No, this is just the way Republicans are, true sociopaths from the moment they’re born. They are monsters who prey upon the populace with depraved lust.

— Dr. Secular Citizen (@secularcitizen2) August 6, 2019

If all that fails, some good old fashioned slander will do.

Repulsive. Probably either already are or soon to be rapists.

I stand by that opinion.

— Denae M (@DenaeEdgeEdge) August 6, 2019

This is a teachable moment.  We have some boys who need a lesson in respect.

What the internet wants is life-destroying vengeance.

There is no more compassion left, just hate and a desire to hurt those on the other side.

In the last couple of days, I’ve seen a lot of politicians and pundits say that we need to tackle the issue of violent white supremacism.

Yes, we should.

White supremacism is an evil ideology.  I am not going to defend it in any way.  I condemn it with every fiber of my being.

That doesn’t mean that I am not allowed to worry about the government going after white supremacism.  Remember that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

There are two big problems I see in a war on white supremacism, and both of them relate to collateral damage.

One: Myopia

The Federal Government is very good at getting myopia.  Focusing intently on one issue to the negligence of others.

Back in the 90’s the big fear was militias.  This was the post-Oklahoma city bombing era.  When 60 Minutes ran a special, it was on groups like the Michigan Militia and what they represented.

It was during this time that radical Islam sprang up.  The first World Trade Center bombing and the USS Cole bombing took place while the government was busy addressing the threat of militias.

Then 9/11 happened, and the Federal Government refocused on radical Islamic terrorism.  Following 9/11 there was the Fort Hood shooting, several attacks on military recruiting stations, the Boston Marathon bombing.

All the while, violent white supremacism is metastasizing on the internet.

Now some high profile shootings happen and we are going to focus on white supremacism.  That needs to be dealt with but at the expense of what?

The Synagogue shootings and El Paso were carried out by white supremacists.  Dayton was not.  Neither was the Tacoma ICE attack.

Look at how much coverage the media did for Antifa.  Is a big push to counter white supremacism going to result in ignoring violent Left-wing extremism.

This is not whataboutism.  I want to stop all forms of violence.  I am concerned that because of popular sentiment, that will not happen.

Two: Bad Faith

This is the part that really worries me.  The Left argues in bad faith.  Months ago, I wrote a post about Ted Cruz condemning an actual Nazi running for office in Chicago.  Rather than people on the Left saying “thank you for condemning that” the response was “all GOP are Nazis and you should step down too.”

Then there was the Covington Catholic School media circus, in which we were told by that the MAGA hat was the new Klan hood or Swastika.  This has become the defense for every time a Trump supporter gets beat up, that the MAGA hat is tantamount to a Klan hood or Nazi uniform.

The radical Left has decided that all Republicans are white supremacists. Ben Shapiro addressed this on Twitter just the other day.

So, we now have two separate NYT columnists arguing that all conservatives are basically violent white supremacists, but slightly more subtle. Let me put this gently: f*** yourselves. pic.twitter.com/aqJjZjfPra

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 5, 2019

Your conflation of all conservatives with white supremacist monsters who despise actual conservative principles — you know, like the universal, non-racially-based applicability of the principles of Western civilization — is cynical, deliberate, and disgusting.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 5, 2019

Here is a former Obama staffer explaining how all Fox News viewers are the same as the El Paso shooter.

If you work for Fox News, advertise on Fox News, or support Fox News in any way, you are enabling the spread of White Nationalism in America and probably making a pretty penny doing so. https://t.co/v5pTrNIlDz

— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) August 5, 2019

If the Federal Government goes after violent white supremacism, what stops this from being hijacked by the Left as a weapon against every Republican in this country.

Clearly, there are people who see these tragedies as just an opportunity to go after their political opponents.  The anti-gun crowd is notorious for this.  They never explain how their new law would have stopped the last shooter, but they push the new law anyway.

We need to deal with this threat, I am in no way suggesting that we do nothing.

I am just concerned that what will happen is that such action will become an anti-Republican which hunt that turns a blind eye to other forms of violence, allowing them to grow.

I wish I didn’t have these concerns, but I no longer have any faith in our system that people want to solve problems and instead just want to use every opportunity to dig at opponents.

Donald Trump Jr. is a noted big-game hunter.  He has traveled the world, spending lots of money, to hunt some of the most exotic game on the planet.

Readers of this blog and people in the gun culture, in general, know that legal hunters are the best environmentalists.  They put their money where their mouth is, and spend more on conservation through taxes and fees (not to mention donations) than all the bird watchers and EV drivers put together.

But the economic reality of big game hunting is neither here nor there to the radical anti-gun crowd.

All they care about is hate.

More accurately: “This is Donald Trump Jr.  He spent north of $30,000 to hunt an old elephant.  Most of that money went to local tribes and anti-poaching efforts to protect other elephants that are still capable of breeding.”

This is where Tom Arnold goes from a regular piece of shit to an incredeble piece of shit.

Tom Arnold is fantasizing about killing Donald Trump Jr. because he disagrees with his stance on legal hunting and then wants to cut off Trump Jr.’s penis as a trophy.

That is a sick and evil position to take.

This is pure hate.  It should be exposed for what it is.

A “was” and a “once was” trying to convince themselves and followers that “The Right of the People” is suddenly at best, a collective right and does not apply to the individual or at worst a privilege issued by the Government.

And amazingly that reasoning only applies to the Second Amendment.