Assailant with shotgun invades newsroom, kills five. Why did no one shoot back?
I see where an unidentified white male — possibly a disgruntled reader — wielding a shotgun, killed five and “gravely wounded” seven today at the offices of the Annapolis Capital Times, a daily newspaper increasingly shifting to “digital platforms,” a subsidiary of the Baltimore Sun and thus, eventually, of the Chicago Tribune and the Big Media Conglomerate known as “Tronc.”
Immediately, and predictably, deranged members of the echo-chamber Left media blamed President Donald Trump, for correctly pointing out those failing enterprises have done everything in their power for 30 years now (and especially since Trump did the unthinkable, the unforgivable, defeating their spotless modern Joan-of-Arc, Miss Hillary) to prop up the Globalist Uniparty and its “open borders, low-wage” agenda, while blocking the populist revolution, the rejuvenation of America, that Trump represents.
This despite the fact that — ever since election night, 2016 — virtually all the violence and CALLS for violence have been coming from the Left. (Ask Congressman Steve Scalise.) They really HATE the fact that — unlike such “good Republicans” as John McCain and Mitt Romney, whose response to vicious leftist attacks was always to lie down, cover their heads, and whine like bitches (in order to prove they were “good sports,” and thus not get thrown out of “The Club”) this Trump guy DARES to talk back to his betters.
(Example: Rob Cox, Global Editor for Thomson Reuters’ Breakingviews vertical — whatever that is — said within minutes that the Capital Gazette newspaper shooting was a direct response to President Donald Trump’s criticism of the mainstream media. “This is what happens when @realDonaldTrump calls journalists the enemy of the people,” said Reutersboy, before even waiting for the blood to pool, or to find out anything about the shooter. “Blood is on your hands, Mr. President,” lisped Master Cox. ( http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/06/28/reuters-editor-blames-trump-for-annapolis-newsroom-shooting-blood-on-your-hands/ .)
And, of course, deranged Democrats (is that now redundant?) called immediately for more “gun control” — without bothering to note all their efforts to further violate the Bill of Rights by further limitjng access to handguns and so-called “assault rifles” wouldn’t have done much good in this case, since the attacker reportedly used a piece of 17th Century technology known as a “shotgun.”
This despite the fact that (as Breitbart columnist AWR Hawkins points out) Maryland already has “some of the more stringent gun controls in the country. Those controls include an ‘assault weapons’ ban, a ‘high capacity’ magazine ban, a bump stock ban, and gun violence restraining orders.”
Meantime, as The Usual Suspects threaten to faint dead away at the horror — the sheer horror — of reports that Maryland reporters hid behind their desks, isn’t it curious that no one seems to have asked the first, the simplest question that should come to mind whenever we hear of victims cowering in fear as they “listen to the sound of the assailant reloading his weapon”?
Why did no one in the building shoot back? Were they all disarmed? Why? Is the Annapolis newspaper one of many with signs on its entrance doors warning employees — not just visitors, mind you, but trusted EMPLOYEES — they can be suspended or fired if they bring onto the premises a self-defense handgun — even one for which they have a hard-to-acquire, government-issued “permit”?
I’ll betcha. I’ll betcha they do. And if that turns out to be the case, could it possibly be . . . the management of this oh-so-Far-Left and Politically Correct newspaper chain that has “blood on its hands”?
June 29th, 2018 at 1:11 am
In this day and age, facts are irrelevant. The sheeple have been brainwashed to blindly follow the media that tells them whom they should be mad at today.The ‘deliberate dumbing down’ UN Agenda 21 is bearing fruit, in that common sense en the capacity for logical thinking (even if just to see cui bono, follow the money) is all but disappeared. Emo-porn has become the new reality, facts be damned.
When people are prohibited by their employer of bringing a gun to the workplace, they happily comply, as ‘it cannot happen here’ anyway.
Worst of all maybe is that should anyone have violated that decree and shot down the gunman, (s)he’d probably be fired for not following orders. That’s how the left rolls these days.
June 29th, 2018 at 4:04 am
Even if cops were on-site, they would have cowered in fear. For almost every cop, making it to a cushy retirement is the ultimate goal. All one has to do is look at the (in)action of the police officers during the last number of mass school shootings, where these “trained professionals” SAT ON THEIR HANDS while the carnage was going on. You can bet that us military veterans in such a case would be drawn TOWARD the sound of gunfire. Today’s human nature dictates that the person with all of the “training” (especially) “law enforcement” DOES cower in fear, while a 90 lb. armed teacher would reluctantly, but successfully “take out” the shooter. Being “forced” into a situation also forces one to act. There are many examples of persons, who one would normally think, would not be capable of acting in an extremely high-stress situation, but DO come out on top–stopping the threat, and saving lives. Sad to say, today’s police practices dictate that the cop’s life is MORE IMPORTANT than that of those he has sworn to protect despite the cops having statutory protections that do not apply to us ordinary civilians.
All one has to do is look at the Medal of Honor recipients, who are almost always mild-mannered, initially reluctant to act, but DO act, and perform feats who most would think are normally beyond their capacity and capabilities–TRUE bravery in the heat of battle. The same applies to those civilians who act during school shootings.
Human nature has a habit of propelling (actually forcing) the normal, average person into a true “hero” and life saver, while showing the true (cowardly behavior) nature of those we assign to protect us. A good example of our “protectors” cowering in fear is the deputies who FAILED TO ACT despite having all of the equipment necessary and the preferential laws on their side (that protect them from lawsuits and liability).
TRUE heroes ACT, while our so-called “protectors” (failed to) REACT.
June 29th, 2018 at 6:49 am
Someone had guns.
“Some employees removed high heels to prepare to flee the building. Others hid. One pulled two handguns out of his desk drawer for self-defense.”
No idea why he didn’t engage. The story doesn’t specify where he was. He might not have been near the shooter, but simply prepared for the worst: the shooter getting closer.