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Counter-terrorism official claims that mass shootings in America are White right-wing terrorism and therefore\u00a0should be handled like any other terrorists<\/a>.
Author ignores untreated mental illness, claims it’s all White Supremacy and easy access to guns.\u00a0 Only nation in the world to have this problem.\u00a0 Article is easy to read, conveniently free of citations to studies or news reports or actual proof.\u00a0 Entirely based on “I’m an expert, believe what I say,” which is a form of the logical fallacy “appeal to authority” that I’ve found particularly annoying since junior high school.
And what’s the proposal – treat White Supremacy like Muslim terrorism?\u00a0 How?\u00a0 Put all White American Presbyterians under surveillance?\u00a0 Infiltrate spies into White organizations like the Kiwanis?\u00a0 Tap the President’s phones (wait, already did that, it was a bust). No, the author wants the country to adopt two gun control bills presently in Congress, tinkering with background checks.\u00a0
Suppose the FBI receives a background check application.\u00a0 Applicant has no criminal record, never officially diagnosed as mentally ill, not in their database.\u00a0 But the FBI agent finds disturbing Facebook pictures of the applicant in front of a Nazi flag giving the Nazi salute saying “Finish what Hitler started.”\u00a0
Is that enough to deny him the gun?\u00a0 On what legal grounds?\u00a0 That he’s a member of the American Nazi Party?\u00a0 “Being a hater” isn’t listed in any state or federal law as grounds for denial and for good reason – it’s political speech protected by the First Amendment, and thus cannot be used to deny firearms purchases under the Second Amendment.
The author was a Deep State government employee for years.\u00a0 And his big solution to mass shootings – background checks – can only work if it’s expanded to include crushing unapproved political opinions.\u00a0 Now we see why draining the swamp is more important that anyone thought.
Joe Doakes
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If I were President, it’d be the moral equivalent of…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…well, not “war”. Maybe “dismantling the Department of Education”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which is, to be fair, mighty important. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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