Lord Long Rod
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I have a couple of thoughts on this horrible crime. First, nothing I say is is intended to diminish the sick, heinous nature of what happened in Jacksonville. My post is a reaction to the media response to this crime.
I intentionally watched CNN and MSNBC coverage yesterday to hear what those fiends were saying. To be candid, I am suffering from a very shitty cold this weekend (fever, chills, coughing, sore throat…all that shit). So instead of living I am camped out in my Lazy Boy this weekend in front of the TV in my living room.
Believe it or not, both leftist propaganda outlets lied. I know, I know. I was shocked too, but it is true. First, the message they pimped was that racist white on black murders is at epidemic proportions. It is not. These things are exceedingly rare. There was the Jacksonville FL shooting yesterday. A year or more ago there was arguably a racist white kid who opened fire a a grocery store in a Buffalo NY black neighborhood. There was that kid that walked into a black church years ago in the Carolinas and went ghetto-thUgZ on them. Honestly, these are the only three instances I even remember in recent history. But please feel free to point out a few other statistically irrelevant white on black racially-motivated killings. It appears to me that black on white police executions are a far more prominent representation of gun violence deaths in America today.
Next, the media folks pointed out, as hard as they could, that there was an AR15 rifle used. This looks consistent with the left’s anti-gun narrative. However, it is completely misplaced here. Their main complaint about the AR is that you can use it to kill a lot of people in a short span of time. However, yesterday’s shooting only resulted in 3 victims. Frankly, that could be accomplished with a single-action revolver. Thus, the use of this particular firearm is completely irrelevant. But the left will run with it any because they are propagandists, not journalists.
As an aside, I cannot let this moment pass without digging at Palmetto State Armory (PSA). I recently bought a PSA-made AKM-74 and turned out to be quite pleased with it. Sure, there are a few FTE and FTF jams. But it’s PSA, so, you know. That notwithstanding, I cannot conceive of any situation (except for having absolutely no other option) where I would include a PSA made firearm in my load-out configuration. Enough said.
My summary of the media coverage of yesterday’s shooting can be reduced to one word: hysterics. I find it really ghoulish that the left-leaning, pro-admin media jumped to weaponizing the horrible deaths of these Innocent victims within a mere couple hours of it happening to pimp their anti-gun, divisive false racism narrative. That is pretty sick. But never let it be said that the leftist Dem-Progs have ever been burdened by empathy.