Dakota Beacon

“Immigration is a blessing and a strength.”  (George W. Bush, failed American president, March 18, 2019)

"We don't let the people have ideas.  Why would we let them have guns?"  (Joseph Stalin)

I think we all knew that there would be a mass shooting.  It was obvious we’d see this when the Democrats pivoted from slamming Trump to their long-anticipated gun banning efforts.  The only problem is, this is an immigration issue, not a gun issue.  The perp in this case, is a violent, mentally unstable immigrant from Syria, brought over by the Bush administration as part of its upside-down apology for (supposedly) being the victim of Islamic violence on 9-11. (I hope we won’t hear from Bush for a while now.)  

So it was really no surprise to most of us that right on cue, one of the Bush-era transplants from Syria (if we are to believe what we are being fed by the press) obliged.  In the first place, within the same report we learned that he is 21 and was born in 1999.  He’s 21 like I’m 21.  Just look at the overweight, balding guy being escorted away by police.  Then you tell me.  If this guy was only 3 when he arrived I’m my own grandpa.  

This guy was known to the FBI.  He had already been in trouble in high school, threatening to kill people, beating them up.  I don’t really care about his life story though.  The question which comes to my mind is, “why wasn’t he deported?”  Can anyone tell me a good reason why America should import people from hostile parts of the world, people who do not have the capacity or the desire to do anything for America?  Can someone explain why we allow them to stay here once they exhibit mental disorders and tendencies toward violence?  When they express hatred and contempt for, say, non-Muslims in the case of Al Issa?  What’s wrong with us?  What was wrong with George W. Bush?  That’s the real question, not what’s wrong with Al Issa.  And while we are looking for answers, let’s see if we can find out what’s wrong with our FBI.  Every day they look worse.  One answer that comes to my mind is "abolish the FBI".

I also don’t want to hear the touching life stories of the shooter’s victims.  I feel very sorry for their families, but the real reason these endearing stories are told is to try to manipulate our feelings and direct our thinking toward the idea of gun control, distract us from the real issues we can do something about.  “If only we had passed an assault weapons ban these lovely people would be alive today.”  It’s the same old song and dance every time.  And it’s almost never the case that whatever law is under consideration - conveniently at the time of some massacre - that the law being promoted would have stopped the crime and saved the lovely lives of the victims.  

I have on other occasions written about the flawed response to such a shooting incident.  We always do this - we read the life stories of the “troubled youth” who did the killing, we hear about the victims, how wonderful they all were.  And then we get the hammer - “we have to pass gun legislation”.  It’s always the same.  It’s getting very stale.  

I don’t have any interest in Al Issa or his life history.  It really doesn’t matter.  What matters, as I have often said, is the setting.  If we set the table and invite the actor in should we be surprised if he eats our dinner?  We let this person in.  We allowed him to stay - a ticking time bomb known not only to the FBI but to everyone who came into contact with him.  As with most of these people, he was deranged.  No news there.  But none of this is news, really.  The report is he started shooting first from a car.  Then he shot an elderly man and stood over him on the pavement, pumping him full of bullets.  Wouldn’t this have been an opportunity for someone with a gun to stop him?  One of his victims was even a police officer.  Why didn’t he shoot him?  Why didn’t someone else shoot him?  Because that is the way to stop a mass shooting incident.  Sure, they finally arrested the guy and walked him peacefully away, unharmed, but he had already killed ten people.  How long did this take?  How long would it have taken an armed citizen to pull the trigger and stop him?  

That’s the real story as far as I’m concerned.  We should all be ready to stop someone who is on a shooting spree.  Time after time we see this played out.  

And as to the knee-jerk gun ban response, we need to ask this question:  If a person is willing to break the law against murder, would a law stop him from acquiring the means of killing?  The gun laws apply to those who obey laws.  They don’t apply to those who don’t obey them.  It is just as simple as that.  We already have a law against murder and massacre of grocery shoppers.  That law didn’t stop Al Issa.  The answer?  President Geezer is using this failure of our FBI and our immigration policies over the years and the failure of any citizen in Boulder, Colorado, to stop him, to either pass legislation to take guns away from civilized American citizens - which would leave all guns in the hands of those who break the law and the state.  Two entities which we should mistrust entirely.  If he can’t get it that way, our Napoleon will just issue a decree.  And then shuffle away without taking any questions.  

We ought to blame the illogical, insane and self-destructive immigration policies pursued by every modern-day president before Trump.   We ought to blame the obviously politicized FBI for doing it’s usual nothing.  We ought to blame the press for feeding the gun ban narrative rather than reporting objectively.  We ought to blame people’s willingness to let someone continue a shooting spree.   Why aren’t we holding George W. Bush responsible for this?  Someone should be held responsible.  If we aren't willing to blame the shooter himself, then the person who brought him here is left holding the bag - or should be.  When we answer what was purportedly an attack (?) by Islamists on the Trade Towers, at a cost of 3,000 American lives, with expanded and relaxed immigration policies we should expect to pay a very high price.  Ten people were killed in this shooting - very sad, to be sure.  A shock.  Three thousand were killed on September 11, 2001.  Did someone propose we outlaw immigrants who don’t belong here?  Or airplanes?  Of course none of that happened.  (My own thought is we should maybe have outlawed implosion technology and dynamite if we were really serious - those buildings did not fall down because a plane hit them.)  

George W. Bush has much to answer for.  The designers of our immigration policies have much to answer for.  I note that some clever activist lost no time in preparing a little poster with a red circle dripping blood, with a line through it superimposed on a gun and the profound word, “WHEN?”  I would say the gun image should be replaced with the image of unvetted immigrants, legal or otherwise. Or maybe a collage of open immigration presidents, starring George W. Bush.   As to the proposal for banning guns, we ought to take this as an insult to our intelligence.  Our rights as Americans are secured by the Second Amendment.  It was written to protect us from outlaws like Al Issa and a potentially outlaw state.  We see both right now.  We need to defend our rights and our families.  Shame on the citizens of Boulder who let this nut job shoot ten people.  Instead of trying to either summon the police or doing anything else to help stop this carnage, one customer said she called her parents.  Is this what people are being brought up to do? 

One nation that banned guns among its citizens was Australia.  They “bought” up the guns by force and either stockpiled them somewhere secure or melted them down.  It didn’t reduce crime.  Crime increased.  Of course it did - law-abiding citizens were now helpless to stop it or to protect themselves.  The example of the infamous summer of 2020, in which our cities and small businesses were violently attacked by mobs points up a need for more, not fewer, guns in the hands of responsible and law-abiding people.  The police were no help.  The government was no help.  People found out they were on their own in places like Portland and Minneapolis. If you need an example of tight gun restriction, look at Chicago.  Chicago has very restrictive gun laws.  Every Monday morning we read how many were killed in gun violence there - by people who have guns illegally.  

The best remedy for mass shootings - in fact, a sure-fire cure - is the goal of 100% of our citizens trained and carrying and a mindset that when you see someone pumping lead into an elderly victim lying on the pavement, you aim at the perp’s head and pull the trigger.  Aim for the head.  This creep had body armor.  

If he gets off with an insanity plea, when he is released he should be packed off to Syria.  Better yet, he should just get a death sentence.  I’m sure Syria doesn’t want him back either.  It is inconceivable that this criminal can be reformed and become a productive and law-abiding citizen.  

We need to stop being governed by our feelings and rather rely instead on our common sense and our logic.  Laws made in the heat of the moment or out of some sense of grief are never good laws.  Law is not supposed to be emotional.  It is supposed to be objective and reasoned.   I guess we all know this is too much to ask of an administration headed by Joe Biden.  A lot to think about as we watch millions of people from parts unknown, with no vetting, surge across our border, invited by Biden.  Very sobering.  

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