Parkland and Obama's hypocrisy

The recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida is a horrific tragedy. And politicians will not allow any tragedy go to waste as the left immediately calls for tighter gun control . . . whatever that means, while conservatives want to know the facts before making any recommendations.

It seems as if the left keeps calling for tighter gun restrictions but they don't offer anything concrete, and the truth is, in just about every mass shooting, gun control laws would not have prevented them.

It also seems that in this case, the FBI really screwed up. They were told about the alleged shooter more than a month before he went on the rampage that killed 17 people and wounded 14.

Former failed president Obama's words (above) are just as foolish. In fact, during his administration, when both the House and the Senate were in Democratic control, not one new measure on gun control was taken.

There were plenty of shootings during his time in the White House but being a Democrat, he was able to skate past the situation.

In February 2008 in his first year in office, there was a shooting on the 2nd in Kirkwood, Missouri by Charles Lee Thornton, 52, that killed five people at a city council meeting.  

On the 14th, in Dekalb, Illinois, Steven Kasmierczak, 27 shot and killed 5 people on the campus of Northern Illinois University before turning the semiautomatic weapon on himself. 

June 25, 2008 in Henderson, Kentucky, Wesley Neal Higdon, 25, killed 5 people at Atlantis Plastics Factory then killed himself.

April 3, 2009, in Binghampton, New York, Jiverly Antares Wong, 41, a naturalized American citizen from Vietnam, shot and killed 14 people at the American Civic Association before killing himself.

August 3, 2010 in Manchester, Connecticut, Omar Thornton, 34, shot and killed 8 people then killed himself.

September 6, 2011 in Carson City, Nevada, Eduardo Sencion, 32, killed 4 people in an IHOP restaurant then killed himself.

July 20, 2012 Aurora, Colorado, James Holmes, 25, shot and killed 12 people in a movie theater wounding many more.

And so on, and so on, during the Obama years right up until the present.

I do not blame Obama nor do I say he's complicit as leftists like to say about President Trump, but I do say that Obama did nothing to quell the situation while in office, and his heart had gone out so many times to the families of the victims, it's a wonder that he still has blood in his body.

The blame game is foolish. Nobody, not on the left nor the right, want anything like this to happen. We all feel horrible and sad and nobody owns even a smidgeon of moral superiority over another.

But don't tell us on the right side of the aisle that we need to do something and that we're to blame if we don't. Come up with ideas. What kind of gun control would prevent something like this from happening?

What measures can be taken to help prevent this from happening?

Perhaps we, as a nation, should take a close, hard look at Israeli schools where there is real security and no shootings. The Israelis are proactive in their school and airport security and it has prevented horrible tragedies like the Parkland from happening.

Gun-free zones are ridiculous. They've become targets for people who want to shoot unarmed people. 

Perhaps a one-entrance school with armed security guards and teachers with real training can be part of the solution.

If you see something and say something and it falls on deaf ears, then people will stop saying something.

There's so much more we need to learn.



Tweet