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33 Replies to “Reader’s Links for 9/11 2024”

    • Duck is rather greasy for my taste. I hope they cook it thoroughly and eat at least carrots with it. Beasts.

  4. On the epic level of Liberal party bullshit in Canada, including Mark The Commie Carney, Dear Dufus and the Midget Hellbitch Nazi:

  5. I turned the debate off after 15 long minutes.

    One headline I heard today “She baited him and then she spanked him”

    I wonder if Kamala has ever been to Studio 54.

      • I wonder when 60 year old Willie Brown gave 29 year old Kamala a BMW for her birthday, who spanked who.

        • I only watched the first 15 minutes — Kamala smirks like Chrystia Freeland — methinks they are cut from the same cloth.

    • Kamala didn’t win the debate, the polls haven’t changed, if she had won she would be rising in the polls. The libs are trying to make it look like a win but all of the sound bites are wins for Trump, that makes the debate at worst a tie. Remember he was debating 3 people instead of 1 and he managed to bring about a draw, since he is ahead in the polls that is a win for him.

      • He was debating the entire machine,
        0bama, Inc.
        Boss Tweed and the Kennedy Klan were nothing compared to this Global Gutter.

        • Yes and no, there is some evidence that some of the Dem Party bigs are working against her, granted the evidence is people talking and assuring people she is still a communist and ensuring people remember she is part of the Biden Harris team. I don’t know how much they are working against her or how much they will work to stop a steal in her favor.

    • WAYNE ROOT: President Trump Called Me Right After Debate. I told Him ABC Clearly Gave Kamala Harris All the Questions in Advance.
      thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/wayne-root-president-trump-called-me-right-after/
      Sep. 11, 2024 12:40 pm
      Credit: ABC News

      By Wayne Allyn Root

      Clearly only 2 things happened before last night’s presidential debate…

      Either Kamala’s best friends who run ABC gave her all the questions in advance of the debate…

      Or Team Kamala gave the questions they wanted asked to ABC.

      I told President Trump the exact same thing last night, right after the debate. What happened last night wasn’t normal. More importantly, Kamala’s debate performance wasn’t possible- not without a lot of help from her friends.

      First, I want to tell a little story. Democrats, the Deep State, DC Swamp and mainstream media all want you to believe President Trump is a bad guy, a nasty guy, an evil guy. I know him well. That is the biggest lie and scam ever told. I’ve met and interviewed pretty much every conservative star and Republican politician in America through my national TV and radio shows.

      President Donald J. Trump is the nicest, most thoughtful, class act, of all of them.

      Last night in the middle of my debate party at my home, with my wife and friends standing around me, 10 minutes after the debate ended, my phone rang, and it was President Trump.

      I took the phone call in front of my friends. It was quite a moment. In all of America, out of 330 million people, I may be the only one who got a post-debate call from the 45th President of the United States. He wanted to hear what I thought about the debate. I gave him my honest answer. The same one I’m about to share with you.

      I told him he won- because no matter how negative the questions, no matter how vicious and biased the moderators, no matter how hateful Kamala was…in the end, all that matters, all that will resonate…are the four issues most middle class Americans care about…

      And you won on those four issues all night long: the economy, inflation, crime and the open border disaster.

      That’s it. That’s all that matters. And you won on those four issues. Most Americans are with you. All the rest is B.S. and will be forgotten.

      And I was proven right this morning when the most accurate pollster in America (by a mile), Patrick Basham of The Democracy Institute, released his post-debate poll. Trump won 45% to 34%, with 21% saying it was a draw. See:

      https://www.the-express.com/news/politics/148368/who-won-presidential-tv-debate-harris-trump-poll

      Exactly what I thought. Trump won because he hit a homerun on the only four issues that matter to most Americans.

      But…

      He did not win a landslide. He did not put the race away last night. It was not the knockout punch we all wanted. Exactly what I told President Trump in the moments after the debate.

      Not because of anything he did. Trump was fine. He always wins- at least with the audience that matters- the American middle class.

      But Kamala got the questions in advance.

      You’d have to be blind, deaf, dumb or delusional not to see that. Because Kamala performed so perfectly in every response, it was like she knew the questions for a week, and rehearsed and memorized a scripted response to each and every one of them.

      That’s because she did.

      Her best friends run ABC. We all know what happened. She wasn’t just good last night, she was too good. Too good to be true. And when something looks too good to be true, it always is.

      Trending: Elon Musk Delivers Epic Response After Hollywood Elite Taylor Swift Endorses Kamala Harris

      Kamala is as dumb as a doorknob. Perhaps the worst speaker I’ve ever seen at the highest levels of American politics. The worst in history. We’ve all watched her clueless “word salads” and stupid cackling responses for four years.

      She’s so bad that only two weeks before Biden resigned from the race and she was handed the nomination without one vote, a top Biden fundraiser told a crowd, “Joe Biden in a coma, or even dead, is a better candidate than Kamala alive.”

      She’s so bad that she has been placed in the government witness protection program for 7 weeks since she got the job. Not one press conference. Only one friendly interview- and she was terrible at that. She is not allowed to speak, for good reason.

      Yet last night she had the perfect answer for every question. Flawless. Like they opened her brain and inserted Obama’s brain.

      How is that possible?

      If you listen or watch only Trump’s responses, he was excellent. He did well enough to win a decisive victory.

      But now listen or watch only Kamala responses. She always had the perfect answer, or comeback. How is that possible, if she is so incompetent that Biden ignored her for four years, 92% of her staff quit, and now her own campaign team has placed her in witness protection?

      The answer is, it’s not possible. She knew the questions in advance. Every one of them. And rehearsed the perfect scripted answers for 7 straight days.

      Or she had a microphone in her earring and Obama was reading her the perfect answers all night.

      Now we add in the rigged ABC moderators. Every question was designed to hurt Trump and help Kamala. They threw grenades at him all night, and lobbed softballs at her. 3 against one- and all three had a week to prepare!

      They fact checked him. Everything she said was a lie. Yet no fact checks. Nothing. And the disruptions! Every time Trump tried to respond to Kamala’s lies, they interrupted him to change the topic.

      This debate was rigged- just like the 2020 election.

      And then we get to the questions. 100% rigged. ABC just happened to ask questions that were winners for Kamala.

      Abortion, January 6th, whether 2020 was stolen, what is Kamala’s race, climate change and Obamacare. ABC made sure the debate was fought on her strongest ground. Talk about home field advantage!

      Why no questions to Kamala about…

      *Who is really running the country?

      *Why did you lie to the American people about Biden’s deteriorating mental health?

      *Inflation is killing American families. It was close to -0- when you took over. What did you do wrong?

      *Why do you support giving citizenship to every illegal alien and free healthcare to all of them, while taking away private healthcare from American citizens?

      *Do you feel responsible for all the women and children murdered by illegal aliens you and Biden welcomed into our country?

      *Do you see Venezuelan prison gangs taking over entire blocks of U.S. cities?

      *Why do you support letting transgender illegal aliens into our country, and asking US taxpayers to pay for their sex change operations?

      *Why are you and Biden against free speech? Why do you order censorship of conservatives and critics?

      *You say you support women’s rights, so why do you want boys to play women’s sports, and take away scholarships from girls?

      *You say Trump incited an insurrection, but didn’t you do exactly that by egging on BLM rioters, and trying to raise money to bail out BLM criminals, rioters, looters and torchers?

      Where were those questions? I have a hundred more that put her on the defensive, instead of asking about abortion and January 6th.

      Folks, the debate was rigged. That’s exactly what I told President Trump minutes after it ended.

      My advice for President Trump for the next debate…

      Demand both sides see all the questions in advance. Demand five questions that are tough on her (chosen by your team) and five that are tough on you (chosen by her team). Don’t do it if they won’t agree to those two demands. That’s the only way to guarantee she won’t be the only one to see the questions in advance, and all of the questions won’t favor her.

      My closing statement to President Trump: You won. But it should have been a knockout that ended the election. They rigged it, to keep it close, to keep her in it. Now they’ll try to steal it five days after Election Day.

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/wayne-root-president-trump-called-me-right-after/

      • PT looked tired and sounded grumpy.
        Couldn’t be more appropriate for this outrageous pretense of an election debate.

        Parroting scripted lines and supported by complicit media, she managed to look young and happy and frisky. Now BBC and CNN are doing their thing.

        Maybe they think it’ll make the fraudulent election results more credible. It won’t change votes.

        • The way Democrats like Saunders and Obama keep pointing out how Harris is tied to Biden and his policies and how she is still further to the left then Saunders I don’t know how many of the lower ranking people in the States will help them steal this election.

    • INGRASSIA: Donald Trump, In Vintage Form, Emerged Out Of ABC’s Lion’s Den Victorious
      thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/ingrassia-donald-trump-vintage-form-emerged-abcs-lions/
      Sep. 11, 2024 11:40 am

      President Trump delivered a vintage debate performance last night, taking on not only Kamala Harris, but ABC’s two debate monitors, David Muir and Linsey Davis, whose hostile questions and fact-checking primarily, if not exclusively, were directed at the 45th President. The 45th President displayed a masterclass in polemics to over 50 million viewers – with fair-minded commentators ranking it among one of the President’s best.

      He repeatedly drilled down on the issues that matter to voters this election season – above all, Kamala’s catastrophic border crisis, which has unleashed tens of millions of criminal invaders into the country with impunity, bringing lethal drugs like fentanyl as well as unprecedented barbarity, including drug cartels and human trafficking, which have no analogue in American history.

      The tenor of the President’s remarks and style were apropos the gravity and extraordinarily high stakes of this election cycle: fierce yet reserved, intense yet thoughtful, serious and sober. In sharp contrast, Kamala Harris reeked of juvenility and weakness throughout, nervously trying to cackle herself out of uncomfortable situations addressing problems for which she is chiefly responsible. This includes the outbreak of the Ukraine War that observed Vladimir Putin send troops into Eastern Europe just three days after she was tasked by Joe Biden to broker peace in the region.

      This was in response to Putin sensing her weakness, a point that President Trump stressed, as well as observing just months prior Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. The catastrophic pullout directly caused the deaths of 13 American troops and left millions of dollars of equipment behind for dangerous terrorists to swoop up – this country’s greatest foreign policy blunder in living memory.

      Moreover, the President dealt another haymaker when he excoriated Kamala’s mismanagement of the border when she was designated as the Biden administration’s “border czar.” The President pulled no punches when he declared, “[The migrants are] eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there,” referring to an influx of recent Haitian arrivals in Springfield, Ohio, who have been reported – and corroborated by a police report, despite the gaslighting of ABC’s erroneous “fact-checkers” – to be eating American pets, bringing the barbaric and uncivilized practices of the Third World to these shores.

      Speaking of third world barbarity, the President delivered another blow to Biden and Harris when he attacked their record on the economy, which has resulted in inflation at record-setting levels, sabotaging the jobs market and resulting in the slowest growth in both the stock market and growth domestic product since the Great Recession. The damning jobs report, recently put out by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, showed that last quarter the Biden-Harris regime created some 1.2 million jobs, but those jobs were incredulously, exclusively for foreign laborers – many of whom are illegally domiciled here. Meanwhile, native-born American citizens have lost 1.3 million jobs – an unmitigated disaster.

      On these statistics, the President held Kamala’s feet to the fire. “Kamalanomics is killing the American Economy!”, the President declared. “When I left office, I handed Kamala a surging economy. Mortgage rates were around 2%. Gasoline was $1.87/gallon. Incomes surged. Kamala blew it all up.” All true.

      President Trump then succinctly captured just how disastrous the policies of the Biden-Harris administration have been for the economy: “If she becomes president, this country doesn’t have a chance of success. Not only success, we’ll end up being Venezuela on steroids.”

      In addition, President Trump did a stellar job articulating the fact that Kamala Harris’s policies are dangerously liberal: she is a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist. He adeptly dispelled any doubt as to her radical beliefs by delineating the origins of her extremist philosophy: “She’s a Marxist, everyone knows that, her father is a Marxist professor in economics, he taught her well.” In this line, he made reference to Kamala’s father, Donald Harris, who was a professor of economics at Stanford for many years, a specialist in Marxist economic theory – that, through her daughter, have demonstrated the disastrous practical implications of such theories through the policies Kamala and Biden have enacted over the past three and a half years.

      These policies include price controls, higher taxes, and handouts for illegal aliens. Furthermore, they include her radical plans to socialize medicine and eradicate private insurance; introduce central bank digital currencies, replicating the CCP’s system of assigning social credit scores; and phasing out fracking, oil, and gas, in pursuit of crippling electric vehicle mandates, putting the United States on the road to serfdom.

      The President’s closing statement was maybe his knockout punch. He asked a very simple question: why hasn’t Kamala Harris, who has been serving as Biden’s vice president for the last three and a half years, been unable to deliver on any of the promises she proposed on the debate stage.

      “They’ve had three and a half years to fix the border,” President Trump said, “three and a half years to create jobs – and all the things we talked about. Why hasn’t she done it?”

      It was that final line that will remain in the minds of the 50 million viewers watching last evening. And this was observed in post-debate polling: when asked who won the night, Newsmax found that 93% of its audience believed President Trump won, compared with just 6% for Harris. Even C SPAN, a neutral network, found that 83% of its audience believed the 45th President had won the evening’s debate, compared to just 17% for the Vice President.

      Among CNN’s audience, when asked who would better handle the economy, President Trump’s numbers improved after the debate. Entering the night, 53% of CNN’s left-leaning audience thought President Trump would do a better job handling the economy compared with 37% for Harris. After the debate, President Trump’s numbers increased to 55%, and Harris correspondingly dropped to 33%.

      American voters are intelligent enough to cut through the nonsense. It is for this reason that Harris immediately begged President Trump, as he was wrapping up post-debate interviews, for a second opportunity to debate him. Among Pennsylvania voters, President Trump’s remarks performed especially well. His points about saving fracking and mass deportations resonate with this mostly blue-collar audience, who – like large swathes of the rustbelt region – have been especially devastated by globalist policies that have outsourced their manufacturing jobs to China, Mexico, and India and eroded their culture with mass immigration at home.

      As a globalist herself, Kamala Harris is the mouthpiece for Washington’s failed ruling class – the likes of which also include Dick Cheney, the chief architect of the disastrous Iraq War, whose endorsement she bizarrely welcomed on stage. In this she revealed herself to be the establishment candidate, embodying the same ruling class that has brought endless wars and untold economic ruin upon this nation over decades.

      The fact that President Trump made a concerted effort to appeal to the constituency most harmed by destructive neoliberal and globalist policies last night, in particular, was a brilliant move – for it will be states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin that ultimately decide this election, much as they did for him in 2016. These voters are naturally drawn to the President’s plans to close the border and prioritize America’s interests, as well as his rabble rousing, no-holds-barred rhetoric that has endeared him to hundreds of millions of Americans, who to this day turn out by the tens of thousands to his rallies wherever he goes.

      On that appeal, the President was a smashing success, looking every bit the part of vintage 2016 Donald Trump, who famously pierced the blue wall and shocked the political world by defeating Hillary Clinton, the face of the Washington Swamp, on a very simple yet powerful message: to Make America Great Again.

      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/ingrassia-donald-trump-vintage-form-emerged-abcs-lions/

    • Western Lensman
      @WesternLensman
      This clip may be the most egregious example of ABC debate moderators’ direct actions/inactions to affect viewers’ perceptions of the information presented at the debate.

      There are at least seven instances of this within a two-minute span.

      This is not “bias.”

      It’s much worse.

      This is direct, planned interference in the debate outcome. When moderators take on the role of “fact checkers” the inference is that the absence of a “fact check” confers validity to the non-fact-checked information.

      When one side is repeatedly “fact checked,” while the other is not, that is a signal to the viewer that one side is not reliable and truthful, while the other side is.

      The ABC moderators had their orders, and here you see those orders executed.

      In this clip:

      1) Trump says Pelosi is responsible for security at the Capitol. True. Muir intervenes on Kamala’s behalf by cutting him off with snarky retort, doesn’t acknowledging the validity of Trump’s statement, and immediately redirects to Kamala to set up her “answer” he knows is coming. This is direct action by Muir to affect the outcome of this exchange.

      2) Kamala says she was at the Capitol on J6. She was there in the morning, but left to go to DNC HQ prior to the riot. Critical information is omitted. No fact-check.

      3) Kamala says Trump incited a mob to attack the Capitol. False. Trump’s “peacefully and patriotically” comments are ignored. Trump is not charged with inciting violence. No fact check.

      4) Kamala says that “some” police officers died on January 6. False. No fact check.

      5) Kamala recites the Charlottesville “Fine People” hoax. This has been thoroughly and repeatedly debunked. No fact check.

      6) Kamala recites the “stand back and stand by” hoax. This is designed to infer that Trump was ordering a “militia” to act on later orders, when he was clearly asking for a cooling of tensions. No fact check.

      7) Kamala recites the “bloodbath” hoax. Trump was talking about the automobile industry, not violence. No fact check.

      To quote Megyn Kelly on the ABC moderators:

      “They did exactly what their bosses wanted.”

      https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1833869730735603919

    • Some undecided voters not convinced by Harris after debate with Trump
      Helen Coster and Tim Reid
      Wed, September 11, 2024 at 1:39 AM CDT·3 min read
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      Harris-Trump presidential debate hosted by ABC in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

      (Removes errant word at start of first paragraph)

      By Helen Coster and Tim Reid

      (Reuters) – Kamala Harris was widely seen as dominating Tuesday’s presidential debate against Republican former president Donald Trump, but a group of undecided voters remained unconvinced that the Democratic vice president was the better candidate.

      Reuters interviewed 10 people who were still unsure how they were going to vote in the Nov. 5 election before they watched the debate. Six said afterward they would now either vote for Trump or were leaning toward backing him. Three said they would now back Harris and one was still unsure how he would vote.

      Harris and Trump are in a tight race and the election will likely be decided by just tens of thousands of votes in a handful of battleground states, many of whom are swing voters like the undecided voters who spoke to Reuters.

      Although the sample size was small, the responses suggested Harris might need to provide more detailed policy proposals to win over voters who have yet to make up their minds.

      Five said they found Harris vague during the more than 90-minute debate on how she would improve the U.S. economy and deal with the high cost of living, a top concern for voters.

      The encounter was particularly important for Harris, with a weekend New York Times/Siena College opinion poll showing that more than a quarter of likely voters feel they do not know enough about her, in contrast to the well-known Trump.

      The Trump converts said they trusted him more on the economy, even though all said they did not like him as a person. They said their personal financial situation had been better when he was president between 2017-2021. Some singled out his proposal to tax foreign imports, although economists say that is likely to raise prices.

      Four of those six also said Harris did not convince them she would pursue different economic policies than Democratic President Joe Biden, a Democrat they largely blame for the high cost of living.

      “I still don’t know what she is for,” said Mark Kadish, 61, an entrepreneur in Florida. “There was no real meat and bones for her plans.”

      Four of the voters are women and six are men; eight are white and two are Black. All have voted for both Democratic and Republican candidates in the past.

      Harris did mention some policy specifics, including her plan to offer tax benefits to families and small businesses. But she focused much of the debate on attacking Trump rather than laying out detailed policies.

      Robert Wheeler, 48, a security firm executive in Nevada, was leaning toward Harris before the debate. He now says if the election were held tomorrow he would vote for Trump, largely because he thought Harris didn’t provide clarity on her policies.

      “I felt like the whole debate was Kamala Harris telling me why not to vote for Donald Trump instead of why she’s the right candidate,” Wheeler said.

      But Meredith Marshall, who is self-employed and lives in Los Angeles, said she was now for Harris. She said she had hoped to hear more about the economy from the vice president, but still liked her plan to help small business owners.

      (Reporting by Tim Reid and Helen Coster, Editing by Ross Colvin and Howard Goller)

      https://www.yahoo.com/news/undecided-voters-not-convinced-harris-063919528.html

      • The “winner” will be the one who survives the post-rigged-election brawl. There’s got to be some October Surprise that rips the mask off these demonrats, shows MAGA as a force to be respected.

        • I keep seeing financial experts saying that a major correction is due to hit the Stock Market in October or November, Biden and company will do the wrong thing and make the problem worse.

          The post election brawl is going to be interesting, a few years ago a retired Special Operator ask a lib if they were sure they wanted to start a civil war. He pointed out our side has 3 trillion rounds of ammo while their side can’t decide which bathroom to use.

  6. Fact Check Reveals Interesting Fact About Armed Teachers
    By Tom Knighton | 8:31 PM | September 10, 2024
    AP Photo/ Rick Bowmer

    Fact-checking is an odd industry. We’ve seen plenty of examples of “fact-checks” that seemingly dispute the actual facts, ignoring the plethora of evidence supporting an initial claim, all because the fact-checker really wanted the claim to be false.
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    Others will simply gloss over inconvenient facts and twist things so that they can justify a favorable result, even if it’s utter nonsense.

    But earlier today, I came across a fact-check about armed teachers. The question being addressed is whether or not 31 states allow armed teachers. This is, of course, true. However, the fact-checker actually went a bit further and illustrated a bit of an issue with the laws permitting this. In particular, how it may have made the Apalachee High School shooting possible, though they didn’t necessarily mean to.

    The overwhelming majority of states that allow teachers to carry guns require school teachers to get permission from either the school or the district first. And some states also require teachers to get special training, or to be chosen for a particular school safety program before being allowed to carry on school property.

    An Oct. 27, 2023, report from VERIFY partner station 11Alive found just three of 180 Georgia school districts permitted teachers to carry guns at that time. A March 31, 2023, report from the Ohio Capital Journal found that 22 Ohio school districts of the state’s 600 districts permitted teachers to carry guns in schools. In June 2018, Firearms Owners Against Crime said that 217 Texas school districts, 21% of the state’s more than 1,000 districts, allowed staff to be armed.

    The RAND Corporation, a research group, could not find any credible studies showing that laws allowing armed staff in schools either increased or decreased school shootings and violence in a Jan. 10, 2023, research review.

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    Now, Georgia and Ohio are fairly pro-gun states, yet only a tiny fraction of those states’ school districts allow guns. Texas has 21 percent, but think about Texas for just a moment. The fact that only a fifth of all districts allow armed teachers is a drop in the proverbial bucket.

    In other words, when states create these laws, they empower local school districts to make the decision.

    However, allowing school staff to carry firearms is a controversial thing. As a result, a lot of districts opt not to even bring it up because they don’t want the political fight that will follow, especially since we know that it’ll get ridiculously ugly.

    In Georgia, just three of the 180 districts allowed armed teachers. Those are Laurens, Gordon, and Fannin Counties.

    Apalachee High School is in the Barrow County School System.

    In other words, there weren’t any armed school staff besides the school resource officers. Those officers had to get to the scene of the attack and engage the killer, which prompted him to surrender.

    But again, what if the first teacher who saw him–the one who refused to open the door because they saw the gun–had been armed? What if there were another teacher in that hallway who was armed?

    RAND can’t find any credible studies showing armed school staff decrease school shootings, but let’s be real here. When just three of 180 school districts arm teachers, can we really expect there to be any such studies? Here we have to just basic logic, though, and know that teachers who have guns can defend themselves and, by extension, their students.
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    They can’t do that if the laws kick the can down to the local level where local officials have to make that determination. The states need to step up and lay it down and tell local districts that they will have armed teachers. Otherwise, we’re going to see more Apalachee High incidents, all because local officials just don’t want to be bothered.

    https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2024/09/10/fact-check-reveals-interesting-fact-about-armed-teachers-n1226175

  7. ‘No Notoriety’ for Mass Killers Also Means No Independently Verifiable Information
    Ammoland Inc. Posted on September 11, 2024 by David Codrea
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    If we don’t know anything about him, we have no way of independently verifying what authorities and media cheerleaders are allowing to be said. iStock-wildpixel 1297054517

    “Senator Mike Lee Introduces Resolution Asking Media to Refrain from Naming Mass Shooter,” AmmoLand’s John Crump reported Monday. “Through multiple interviews with mass shooters and through studying the manifestos of these killers, we have learned the vast majority of them carried out their heinous crimes to become famous.”
    It’s a virtue-signaling move, really, because the resolution will have no force of law (and it would be terrifying if it did). Still, in an attempt to grow public demand, we’re introduced to two groups spreading the word: No Notoriety, which claims “It’s a matter of public safety,” and Don’t Name Them, which says “It’s simple. It’s effective.”

    Along with that, a few years back, my friends at Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership announced participation in the Don’t Inspire Evil campaign to “Refrain from gratuitous or repetitious portrayal of mass murderers’ names and images.”
    It’s inarguable that such motivations are a factor in the deranged minds of would-be killers, and I briefly entertained the idea of not recognizing them in my articles. “There’s no point in giving this freak the notoriety he craved,” I decided in a 2018 article on a Texas school shooting, where the killer not only remained unnamed but his face was also covered up. I soon decided that approach had glaring flaws of its own.

    “[M]y concern is that in our earnestness to not inspire evil we don’t unwittingly protect and enable it,” I wrote in a 2019 piece on the “contagion effect” of mass shootings. “I am skeptical that anyone evil and deranged enough to commit mass murder won’t just be triggered by something else…”

    The crux of my concern:
    By NOT identifying the mutant, we are dependent on what ‘officials’ and their approved media megaphones tell us, cutting off independents from doing their own fact checks. If anything, I’d like to see the perps’ social media sites and everything about them left up so we can see for ourselves the mindset they had and from what ideologies they sprang, instead of what we see happening with increasing frequency – those accounts are taken down before the names of the killers are even released.”

    I’ve seen independent efforts to investigate killer backgrounds pay off personally, although it took a lawsuit to make it happen. Represented by attorney Stephen Stamboulieh, the Air Force relented in producing court martial records for the Sutherland Springs church shooter (no need to name him again here), proving there was no question the law would have designated him a prohibited person — although without segregating people too dangerous to have a gun from society, what good does that do?

    The point being authorities wanted to withhold the information and the “real reporters” were oblivious, lazy, and waiting to be spoon-fed a narrative they could all parrot.

    Who among us trusts the government and media to give us the straight scoop on anything that doesn’t have political implications, really? What have we seen unfold just recently with the Nashville killer’s manuscript, where a plausible reason for its suppression is… well, I don’t even have to say any more, do I?
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    As for gratuitous and repetitious, there’ll be millions of Google hits on killer names regardless.
    If mass killings are to be minimized, a more productive effort would be hardening targets, because WHAT THE KILLERS WANT MORE THAN ANYTHING IS TO SUCCEED, and nothing ensures that more than “gun-free zones.” While Democrats and teachers’ unions disparage the idea of armed educators protecting their charges, the deterrence success of programs like FASTER (Faculty/Administrator Safety Training & Emergency Response) is undeniable. Instead of following suicidal demands for citizen disarmament, more citizens should be prepared to repel evil, as happened at West Freeway Church of Christ in Texas (see video below).
    The name problem would diminish if would-be mass murderers realized yeah, there mugs would be on TV alright, where they’d be known as that dirtbag who pulled out a gun and ended up seconds later bleeding out on the floor, proving for everyone to see that, instead of a Destroyer of Worlds, he was just a pathetic loser, destined to be quickly forgotten and who couldn’t do anything right.

    https://www.ammoland.com/2024/09/no-notoriety-for-mass-killers-also-means-no-independently-verifiable-information/