Lux Lucet

The second tweet above by Morgan J. Freeman (not the actor) is another common fallacious argument one sees from progressives.  It runs thus, if the shooter had been black/Muslim/Hispanic/some other minority, he would have been shot and killed on the spot. The fact that they took the white shooter alive proves the cops are racists. 

Back in 2019, a mass shooting in nearby Dayton, OH received a great deal of national and international attention.  The shooters name was Connor Betts, and he was a 24-year-old white man described by the Daily Mail as loner who “fantasized about massacres, ‘hunting’ for humans, craved marijuana and speed, called himself a sociopath and hailed Lucifer.” 

Betts attack took place in Dayton’s Oregon nightclub district early on a Sunday morning as the clubs were closing, and he was shot and killed by the Dayton Police within about 30 seconds of initiating his rampage by on duty police officers serving as security. I personally know someone who works for the Dayton Police Department who talked about the confrontation between the police and the shooter in a seminar I attended.  One little reported fact about this incident he noted was that the officers who took out the white shooter were white men, many of them military veterans, while a sizeable percentage of the crowd they were defending was black.  That certainly undercuts the narrative that white shooters somehow get off easy.  They don’t.   

Worth noting, Connor Betts was some right-wing white supremacist, but a supporter of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.  According to this article, he retweeted, “posts against ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], including one that said, ‘these people are monsters,’ and multiple posts condemning police, and supporting Antifa protesters.”  This hardly fits the profile of a right wing, white racist that the media loves to portray as the typical shooter.

Worth pointing out, too, is that most mass shooters are black.  According to the New York Times, “nearly three-fourths of victims [of mass shootings defined as shootings with four or more casualties] and suspected assailants [mass shooters] whose race could be identified were black.” I mention this because the overwhelming stereotype promoted by the media is that mass shootings are principally committed by whites.

Now on to the third tweet, this one by Rob Reiner of All in the Family fame.  On that show, Reiner played Archie Bunker’s son-in-law, whom Archie not so lovingly nicknamed “meathead.”    

Well, this tweet shows him living down to his character’s name.  Typical of the type of knee-jerk reaction to mass shootings these days, Reiner blames it all on Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and Republicans generally. 

Nonsense.

The fault is with the shooter and the shooter alone. 

Neither Donald Trump, nor Tucker Carlson, nor the GOP have ever lauded killing people because of their race.  They have never advocated for this explicitly nor have they ever called for this implicitly.   Neither do I know a single person who thinks the shooting in Buffalo is anything other than an appalling crime.

Max Boot is one of the more odious neoconservative journalists out there.  He’s the sort of guy who has never seen a war he isn’t head over heels excited about sending your kids to die in.  He himself would never stoop to fighting, though.  He’s too important on the home front. 

But it’s not just his penchant for war that makes Boot hard to take.  It’s his open and consistent contempt for the American people.  The above tweet is typical of his output.    As you might gather from Boot’s Washington Post editorial, he doesn’t approve of the “Great Replacement” theory of immigration.  This is the idea that the U.S. government is intentionally importing large numbers of foreigners into America to supplant the political influence of white Americans, in particular, white Republicans, or “the MAGA crowd” as Joe Biden contemptuously referred to them. 

If you read the editorial, there is no argument from Boot other than to argue that the Buffalo mass shooter Payton Gendron mentioned the Great Replacement in his manifesto, therefore, it must be a racist conspiracy theory.  But there’s no logical reason that an odious murderer like Gendron cannot at the same time be right about something.  Indeed, it would be odd if someone were wrong about everything.  To argue this way is to commit the informal logical fallacy of ad hominem (abusive).  The ad hominem (abusive) fallacy says, in effect, “Reject whatever this person says because he’s a bad man.”

Boot goes on to lay the blame for the shooting on Tucker Carlson and laments that Fox News stood by him even though the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) – the ADL is a hard-core Zionist Jewish organization that despises the First Amendment and works tirelessly to undermine it – had called for his firing.  In Max Boot’s mind, when the ADL says “jump,” the only proper response is to ask, “how high?”      

But while Boot unsuccessfully attempts to cover with shame Americans concerned with the Biden Regimes immigration policies, by his own logic he managers to cover only himself.  The Buffalo shooter, who described himself in his manifesto as “a leftist”, is, just like Boot, a big supporter of Ukraine in its war with Russia.  If you’ve followed the news on the war, you may have heard of a military unit associated with the Ukrainian army called the Azov Battalion.   The Azov Battalion is a well-known for its neo-Nazi affiliations. In the above tweet, on the left is a page from the Payton Gendron’s manifesto featuring a neo-Nazi Black Sun symbol.  On the right is the emblem of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion showing the same Black Sun symbol.  Using Boot’s own logic, since both he and the shooter support Ukraine, and since both the shooter and a prominent Ukrainian militia both support Nazism, Boot is also partially responsible for Payton Gendron’s deadly rampage.

With nearly a quarter of a million illegal aliens pouring across America’s southern border in April alone, and with years of boasting by Democrats about how America’s shifting demographics are good for them and bad for Republicans, there is ample reason to believe that the Great Replacement is, in fact, a real thing.  That the establishment is working so hard to discourage you from thinking about it -it’s almost as if they’re yelling “pay not attention to the man behind the curtain” – further suggests that the Great Replacement is not a conspiracy theory, but an actual program that you’re not supposed to notice.

The next tweet is from Joe Biden. He writes, “We have to refuse to live in a country where Black (note “woke” capitalization of “Black”) people grocery shopping can be gunned down by weapons of war deployed in a racist cause.” 

Well, yes. But not black people only.  I don’t want to see anyone gunned down in a grocery store or anywhere else. 

Biden then goes on to blame the shootings on “weapons of war” by which he means AR-15s.  But as the old saying goes, “guns don’t kill people, people do.”  It is the height of dishonesty to argue that guns are the reason for the carnage in Buffalo.

What are the reasons?  One likely culprit is the lack of capital punishment.  As heinous as the Buffalos shooting was, none of the civil magistrates are calling for Gendron to be charged with capital murder.  It wouldn’t surprise me if New York, in opposition to the Law of God, has no death penalty.  “Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man” (Genesis 9:6). Is God’s commandment about how to deal with murderers.  But New York state thinks it knows better

According to one New York TV station, “The suspect [Gendron] entered a plea of not guilty. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole, according to the DA’s office.”

But the issue goes beyond New York not having a death penalty statue.  There’s also the matter of those states that have a death penalty not using it or not using it properly.

For example, Arizona just executed Clarence Dixon for the 1978 murder of a college student.  It took the state 44 years to execute this murder.  Justice delayed is justice denied.  One of the reasons the death penalty is as a deterrent to those who would commit murder.  But how can the death penalty be a deterrent under these circumstances.

One could make the argument that the death penalty should be carried out publicly.  Executions were public in Israel and once were public in America.  But the last public execution in the U.S. was in the 1930’s. 

If Payton Gendron is tried and convicted in a court of law, he should be summarily executed, and that publicly. 

But instead of punishing criminals as the Scriptures command, the Biden Regime wants to punish innocent gun owners by restricting their Second Amendment rights while allowing a man to live who, providing he has received dur process and is found guilty, ought to die for his crimes.  This is a perversion of justice.

Finally, there’s the matter of whether there was any FBI involvement with Payton Gendron.  And by involvement, I mean encouragement for him to commit the crime.  This is speculative, and I do not claim to have proof of this.  With that said, the FBI is an organization that has shown itself to be aligned with the Democrats and the Deep State in  the matter of spying on Trump during his 2016 campaign.  Also, the FBI is not above encouraging crime as has been shown in acquittal of the men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.   

It may sound very conspiratorial to suggest the FBI could have helped encourage the shooting.  But given what we know about the shady activities of the FBI, it is wise not to dismiss this possibility out of hand.  As the above tweet notes, the FBI encouraged one of the men in the Whitmer kidnapping case to write a manifesto as a way of setting him up for arrest.    

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