by friendlyskies » Thu Dec 03, 2015 2:10 pm
My crystal ball says this really happened and that these knuckleheads are going to be "ISIL inspired" but with no real connection to a cell. Maybe some online prompting from the Daeshbags in a call for "soft targets." Something like, the guy was unhappy at work, the wife had major postpartum depression, and neither of them had gotten a full night's sleep in six months. Both are super religious, him newly so, her from her stay in Saudi Arabia. The crazy, the depression, the sleep deprivation, the promise of salvation, and the access to a soft target all clicked together into one big heavily armed ball of shooter mania. Gonna guess that prescription drugs figured in this one just like the usual white guy shooters. Worse case scenario, maybe the marriage was arranged by a terrorist group to get her into the country. But two years and a kid before acting on it? Mmmmm
But... to your point. This does fit neatly in with the Democrats' latest anti-gun narrative, doesn't it? For the last few weeks, they've been doubling down on a new soundbite, basically "People on the no-fly list can buy guns despite our best efforts, because the NRA is bad and wrong." It's a weird soundbite because that affects 47,000 people, none of whom has been implicated in a mass shooting attack. Hell, most of these people have no record, or maybe some domestic violence stuff. This bothers me because I'm pretty sure I'm on the Secondary Screening list, I always get pinged for a random security check (my husband thought I was tin foil hatting until we flew together a few times, ten checks later he believes me), so I'm concerned. I don't want a gun, but I want the option of buying one! ANYWAY. After several weeks of seeing this soundbite on teevee, this happens. If either member of this couple is on a no-fly list, and the guns were legally obtained rather than illegally, then my tin foil hat is gonna start pinging like crazy, I just know it.
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