The real villains

Good news, kids! The Democratic Party has it all figured out. The cause of every shooting at every school, mall, nightclub and street corner. Whether the assailant is a high school kid with the emotional stability of Rosie O’Donnell on a strict diet or an Islamofascist immigrant who’s beguiled by the Prophet’s hatred of humanity, they’re the just the tools. The craftsman of the evil we witnessed in Parkland, Orlando, San Bernardino, Paris and Las Vegas isn’t the monster pulling the trigger; it’s not even the barking loons who inspired the monsters. It’s a far more insidious force: the NRA.

No less an expert than Connecticut’s Democrat Governor Dan Malloy added his barbaric yawp to the left’s shrieking cacophony aimed at punishing the NRA for their involvement in the violence which plagues our great nation. During a press conference Wednesday, Malloy threw his pair of pennies in a pot stirred by Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin, who is outraged that Connecticut state law recognizes the NRA’s firearms safety and training programs as a good idea. According to Malloy, “They (the NRA) act quite frankly in some cases as a terrorist organization.” Neither Malloy nor Bronin elaborated on how offering America’s most comprehensive and available program teaching respect for and proper handling of firearms makes one a “terrorist organization.” And none of the media outlets and leftists who treated their remarks like a Sermon on the Mount thought to ask them.

It’s “their truth.” It’s the 5,000,000 members of America’s oldest civil rights organization who walked into Marjory Stoneman High School and murdered 17 people. But that’s not all. It was the NRA whose behavior spurred dozens of calls to local law enforcement, and as the NRA who treated those calls with the same urgency they demonstrate when the guy with the tinfoil over his windows says space aliens are sending him messages in his oatmeal. The NRA cowered in the bushes outside Marjory Stoneman while the bodies fell, and the NRA barred the doors.

The NRA managed to set up a virtual armory in the Mandalay Bay Hotel, and the NRA opened fire on that crowd of concertgoers. The NRA also spun the still-tangled mystery swirling around every aspect of that increasingly inexplicable insanity.

When an illegal alien murdered Kate Steinle, the NRA pulled the trigger. Moreover, when that illegal alien, who shot and killed her in the “gun free” utopia of San Francisco, crossed the border like a teenager sneaking into an R-rated movie, it was the NRA who held the door for him — each time.

The NRA opened fire in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. The NRA turned the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino into a murder box. The NRA murdered Adam Lanza’s mother, stole her gun and disgraced the species in Sandy Hook. You name the crime and the Greek chorus of gun-grabbers from Washington to Hollywood will jockey for position to be first to blame the NRA. Don’t blame Islamofascism, blame the NRA. Don’t blame our pitiful response to mental illness, blame the NRA. Don’t blame evil, blame the NRA.

I’d like to describe the anti-liberty left’s obsession with blaming the NRA for crimes to which it was in no way connected as pathological, but that would excuse their hate as being somehow beyond their control. Hyper-partisans Malloy and the leadership of the anti-liberty left are well aware that the NRA is no more responsible for shooting than Ginsu is when Somalis get stabby at the Mall of America; even less so, considering the NRA doesn’t manufacture anything more menacing than a bumper sticker. When liberals talk about “gun control,” it’s not the gun that motivates them; it’s the control. It’s easier — and costs fewer votes — to blame the NRA and/or its membership than it is to admit that you not only have no functional ideas to curb society’s ills, but you have no interest in doing so. If the left were really interested in ensuring what happened in Parkland never happens again, they’d examine the institutional failures which led not only to Parkland, but so many tragedies. Instead, they pollute the public discourse with nonsensical accusations targeting the wrong people, ludicrous statistical assertions which they know the media won’t bother to fact-check, and casual hatred of millions of people whose only “crime” was sending a few bucks to the only group that actually understands their frustration when one of their election officials casually compares them to ISIS.

— Ben Crystal

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