Gun "Violence"

Is it really the conservative white guy that we need to worry about?

This just in from Bob Livingston Alerts

by Brandon Smith

What do you think?

In many of the cases of mass murder in the U.S., the first inclination of the corporate media and the political left has been to identify a conservative political motivation for the attacks or a psychological motivation that involves "toxic masculinity" or "white fragility." The agenda is obvious: To paint straight white conservative men as a dangerous monolith plaguing the rest of society.

Why do they pursue this particular narrative, though?

Perhaps because, statistically speaking, straight white conservative (and libertarian) men are the predominant group keeping the authoritarians at bay. This is not to say that minorities and women are not pro-Constitution, many of them are. But the political left seems to believe that they own minority groups and women (young women in particular) are more likely to support leftist goals. They target straight white conservative men because they see this group as the greatest threat to their hegemony.

However, the narrative is failing because numerous mass murder events have been perpetrated by people indoctrinated into the leftist fold. In many cases, I would be the first to look at the psychological triggers for a shooter, rather than pure political motivation. But, more and more, it appears that the political left is in fact creating the very monsters we now see trying to target specific groups. And in each scenario, the media argues that these tragedies were still caused by conservative policies. For example:

1) On Nov. 21, 2021, Darrell Brooks, jumped into his SUV and deliberately drove it through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing six and injuring 60 other people, including children and the elderly. He is cited on numerous social media posts supporting BLM-related arguments and anti-white arguments. Some self-proclaimed BLM activists took to social media to defend Brooks' actions, and suggested that his mass murder was the "beginning of a revolution."

At first, the media denied any race-related motives for the attack. When Brooks' comments were made public, they went silent. Suddenly, no one in the media was talking about the Waukesha Massacre anymore, and those that did talk about it argued that it was actually the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse (a young man who acted in self-defense against an attacking mob) that justified the actions of Brooks.

2) On Nov. 19, 2022, Anderson Aldrich entered a gay club in Colorado Springs called Club Q and opened fire, killing five and injuring dozens of others. The immediate response by the media and the political left was to accuse conservatives of encouraging the crime and encouraging "hatred against the LGBT community." Yet, when details finally emerged it became clear that the shooter identified as "non-binary" and had been a regular visitor to the club.

Once again, the media went utterly silent, and the deaths and Club Q disappeared from the radar. When a mass murder event is not useful for leftists to push their agenda, they no longer care.

3) Then there was the recent mass shooting in Nashville at The Covenant school, a private Christian institution. Audrey Hale, a biological female trans activist, entered the school with a Keltec rifle that fires pistol rounds and killed 6 people, including 3 children. Hale reportedly left behind a "manifesto" that authorities have yet to release (Gee, I wonder why?), but going by her social media activity it is likely that she was politically motivated by Tennessee's legislation against gender-bending surgeries for children as well as bans against sexualized drag shows for minors.

Leftists and the media have aggressively tried to spin Hale's attack as a gun control issue rather than what it is, political terrorism. In other words, they created the monster and now they are using the crimes of that monster as a rationale to remove our gun rights. Trans activists have also insinuated in thinly veiled threats that more mass murders might occur if red states continue to protect children from trans indoctrination.

4) Finally, we have the latest attack in Louisville, Kentucky, at Old National Bank by a man named Connor Sturgeon, an employee of the bank who was about to be laid off and killed five colleagues while live streaming the incident. Sturgeon has the look that the media likes (tall, young white man) but not the proper politics. Sturgeon's social media history, including his Reddit posts, indicates he was a rabid leftist.

Using the pronouns he/him, Sturgeon posted numerous anti-Trump and anti-NRA memes and rants, as well as pro-COVID lockdown comments. There has in fact been a widespread effort by many platforms to scrub his comments from their pages as quickly as possible. In one group chat message, Sturgeon reportedly sent photos that included the statement "They won’t listen to words or protests, let’s see if they hear this..."

I could list numerous other politically inclined attacks by verified leftists, but I think you get the idea.

The story the public has been told for years is that conservative men are "gun nuts," dangerous ideologues and on the verge of random killing sprees. We have been told that masculinity is itself a threat that needs to be suppressed and that allowing it to flourish in boys is inviting disaster. We are told that the solution is for men to be "cured" of their manhood, and that sexual homogenization will save the world from violence. We are told that the average citizen has no need for firearms and that gun rights are more trouble than they are worth.

But what if it's really the political left and the globalist establishment that is causing most of our troubles? Beyond the issue of directed attacks, there is also the issue of overall violence in America. The vast majority of violent crime in the U.S. occurs in Democrat-run cities. This is a fact.

Data shows that 27 of the top 30 most violent cities in America are run by Democrat-controlled governments, including the cities with the most homicides. Fourteen of those cities also have Soros-backed prosecutors. This trend has been ongoing for years.

The problem is not guns, nor is it conservatives. Conservative towns are some of the safest places in America and there are guns everywhere. What the stats show is a trend that directly relates to a particular ideology, the leftist ideology. Without leftists and leftist policies, crime would likely plummet in the U.S. The more leftist extremism spreads, the worse things get from generation to generation.

To truth and knowledge, ~ Brandon Smith

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