Las Vegas and Liberals

Another day, another shooting, only this time it's the worst in our country's history.  Some deranged nutjob in a room on the thirty-second floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel overlooking the Strip in Las Vegas opened fire on a crowd below enjoying (if that word can be used in connection with) a Jason Aldean concert.  So far, fifty-eight innocent lives were taken and over one hundred people are still in the hospital or have been released after being wounded.  The shooter is dead. 

Americans were horrified when they heard the news Monday morning as they woke up.  For no reason other than the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, people had their lives snuffed out by a man whom many if not all had never met.  Stories of selfless heroism abounded.  Across the country, blood drives and fundraisers sprang up immediately.  Americans are nothing if not charitable in times of crisis. 

There are some Americans, however, who have a completely different reaction. 

A now-former executive with CBS said, I’m actually not even sympathetic [because] country music fans often are Republican gun toters.  Unsurprisingly, Hayley Geftman-Gold, a 2000 Columbia law school grad was fired after making these reprehensible comments. 

Two Democratic congressmen from Massachusetts refused to take part in a moment of silence on the House floor claiming that it was nothing more than an excuse for inaction.  As in the aftermath of any shooting, Leftists are calling for gun control and the abolition of the NRA.  Even Cankles herself has used the platform to advocate for gun control and the dismantling of the NRA.

Jimmy Kimmel gave an impassioned monologue and Steven Colbert used the shootings to pillory his favorite punching bag, Mr. Trump.  Many Leftists are blaming the shooting on Trumpism. 

At this point, no one knows for certain what prompted the shooter to commit this heinous deed.  No one knows exactly whether the firearms he used were legal or illegally bought.  No one knows whether he was mentally imbalanced or had a political agenda.  But that it happened suffices for the Left to follow the Rahm Emanuel dictum of never letting a tragedy go to waste to make political hay out of it no matter the truth of the assertion.

The only facts of which we are certain is the number of dead and the shooter's identity.  We know nothing more at this point; the rest is conjecture. 

Check that:  We know that the Left has but one agenda, and that's its own.  What's good for America takes second place after whatever promotes the Left's agenda. 

The American people need to wake up and take stock not only of what antifa is doing but what the stalwart protector of the American people, the Democratic party, is doing and saying in the aftermath of this tragedy.  For people to cackle about the deaths of innocent people because of the perception of who it forwards a political ideology is disgusting.

I hope the American people are paying attention.

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