The shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas isn't exactly the first such attack we've seen. It comes in the wake of so many other acts of violence that it boggles the mind, especially as they almost all come from the left, even as they try to blame the right for them.
It's weird.
Still, it's hard to deny that someone who followed the playbook allegedly set down by Luigi Mangione and allegedly followed by Tyler Robinson, all motivated by politics as well, wanted to hurt ICE agents. The only reason detainees were shot was that he couldn't shoot worth a damn.
And, unsurprisingly, Sen. Chuck Schumer jumped at the chance to make it about gun control. The problem for him? As the National Review's Noah Rothman notes, it isn't going to save their hide.
As the news broke yesterday of a third ambush-style attack on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in as many months, Democrats, including those who have spent months describing ICE as an extralegal “secret police force,” blamed the violence on the ubiquity of guns in America.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was among them. “I don’t know what’s happened here and I don’t know about the guns, but we need better laws on guns,” he improvised in a Wednesday appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “I mean, we got something done a few years ago, but it’s just rampant. And we have to do more.” Indeed, “It’s become almost every day one of these things happen.”
This is a mantra — a catechism to which Democrats appeal when acts of obvious political violence cannot plausibly be attributed to the right. We know that to be the case because when acts of political violence can be linked to right, Democrats and their allies in the media do not hesitate to spell out the truth as they see it. The obfuscation to which Schumer appealed is, however, an instrument of political utility that may no longer be as effective as it once was.
Rothman then shares this poll that suggests voters prefer the Republicans' stance on guns.
See, this was another "sniper" attack, like the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I put it in quotes because I think there's a lot more involved in being a sniper than shooting from a distance, but that's probably just me being...well, me.
Regardless, this is following the Robinson playbook pretty well, especially as the FBI had revealed that the shooter searched for information on Kirk's murder.
The attacker used an 8mm Mauser bolt-action rifle, which, it seems, some are trying to call a "Nazi battle rifle." It was the German battle rifle in World War I and II, and was used by the non-Nazi troops in the latter war as well, but who cares about that when you can make it very scary?
The thing is, this is the very type of gun we keep being told no one wants to take away.
Schumer and those like him keep trying to make it about gun control, not because there's something they really think can be done, but because they've enflamed half of this country by calling everything and everyone who disagrees with them some form of evil.
They can't spin their way out of this. They can't pretend they were calling ICE a "Gestapo" because it was funny and no one took that seriously. It's not humanly possible that anyone stupid enough to think that will fly can muster the brainpower to actually breathe without mechanical assistance.
Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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