Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s over the Top Irony — about the San Bernardino Shootings

© 2015 Peter Free

 

07 December 2015

 

 

We do not get any more disconnected from reality than this

 

After the San Bernardino shootings, which killed 14 and injured 21 people, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said:

 

 

One thing is clear: violence like this has no place in this country and in this nation. This is not what we stand for.

 

© 2015 Ken Meyer, Loretta Lynch on San Bernardino: Violence Like This Has No Place in This Country, Mediaite (03 December 2015)

 

 

The Attorney General’s unintended irony

 

An unending stream of gun murders is exactly what the United States stands for.

 

But instead of admitting that we casually embrace slaughter — and perhaps confessing that there are just too many firearms floating around to do anything about it — liberal politicians express ineffectual outrage on a routine basis.

 

On the gun-toting right, the usual hollow retort is that still more guns will fix the problem. Even though there has been no sign at all that this proposition is even close to being true. Our gun folks are also generally too disingenuous to admit that they are willing to accept roughly 10,000 non-suicide deaths a year as an acceptable price for this nation’s too easy gun ownership.

 

Equally typically, the fact that San Bernardino turned out to be committed by a pair of Islamic terrorists diverts attention from the real problem. For a primitive tribal reason, we Americans demonstrate — shooting after shooting — that it is okay to get blasted in huge numbers by our white and black homies, but it is not okay to be dribbled away in vanishingly smaller numbers by Islamist sympathizers. We do (it seems) have our arguably nonsensical priorities.

 

 

The moral? — Year after year, Gun Slaughter America stays the same . . .

 

. . . without much thinking about the causes of our propensity for creating problems, ignoring them and yet sounding self-righteously concerned when we pretend to confront them.

 

Attorney General Lynch might have sounded less ridiculous had she said something like that. Instead, we got the usual dose of problem-evading horseshit.

 

And now that “bad Muslims” are involved, the daily shootings problem will become all about “them” rather than “us”.