Norfolk, Virginia Prosecutor Still Taking Heat Over Idiotic Anti-Gun Comment

The attack at Old Dominion University could have been so much worse than it was. The saving grace was that the jihadist nutbar who carried it out tried to take out an ROTC class that was filled with people who were ready to fight, putting an abrupt end to not just the attack, but the terrorist's life.

And, of course, as per usual, you've got someone out there ready to blame guns.

Cam wrote about this last week because, well, Norfolk prosecutor Ramin Fatehi had opinions, and he had to express them.

As Cam noted in his piece, there were a lot of prosecutorial failures that took place years ago that played a role, including the jihadi jackwagon not being prosecuted for treason while engaging in, you know, treason.

But no. It was pro-gun absolutism that led to this attack.

The thing is, people say stuff at one point they think is ill-advised later. They recognize they didn't say it well and try to backtrack a little. We've all done it at one time or another.

But Fatehi doesn't seem to think he said anything wrong, and that's bringing in even more heat.

So, Americans are sick. They care more about guns than children and Jews and college students, and presumably college professors, though Fatehi couldn’t bring himself to mention Shah. Shah’s death is apparently the fault of the Supreme Court for daring to recognize the Second Amendment says what it means and means what it says. It’s an unalienable, individual right, but that doesn’t matter to Fatehi, who is probably disappointed he couldn’t decline to prosecute [the jihadist terrorist] because those Nazi, fascist ROTC kids killed him. 

Or perhaps Fatehi was merely overcome with emotion? Perhaps he didn’t have all the facts about [the killer]? Perhaps he didn’t really mean to attack an express, unalienable civil right, part of the Constitution he’s sworn to uphold? Perhaps he didn’t mean to blame law-abiding American gun owners for terrorism? Fox News gave him the opportunity to clarify his remarks:  

"I absolutely stand by what I said. It is the truth, no matter how much the gun lobby wants to deny it. [skip] No matter the ideology of an attacker, that attacker is more dangerous with a gun than without one."

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Norfolk has a prosecutor who doesn’t understand, or care, that criminals don’t obey any law, particularly jihadists planning mass murder. Nor does Fatehi understand, or care, that it was armed citizens that saved innumerable lives at the synagogue in Michigan, as they regularly do around the nation. The police can’t be there when attacks happen, and armed citizens save lives.

His issue with the "cult of gun absolutism" is that he doesn't seem to respect it as a right. Note that there's no mention of rights, of the Second Amendment, or anything in that comment, nor what he said in his reply. 

I mean, even his claim that an attacker with a gun is more dangerous than an attacker without one is idiotically simplistic and overlooks all kinds of deadly weapons that can kill more people than any firearm could. Did he forget how a terrorist used a truck in Nice, France, to kill dozens of people and injure hundreds more? Did he forget 9/11 or Oklahoma City?

A gun isn't the most deadly weapon an attacker can wield, and pretending otherwise is stupid.

But even if it were, let's remember that the killer was a convicted felon who couldn't buy a gun lawfully, who bought one from someone whom prosecutors previously declined to press charges against for a straw buy, and was thus walking around on the streets to someone who then took said gun into a gun-free zone to launch an attack against innocent, unsuspecting people, only for him to get stabbed to death by a warrior who refused to be a sheep.

So-called gun absolutism played no role in this attack because, at every level leading up to the attack, it was the result of gun control failing. Yeah, we might not support those laws, but they're on the books, and they didn't stop anything, so do tell me, Mr. Fatehi, just how in the hell anyone on this side of the debate could be responsible when the laws your side loves and adores completely failed?

Riddle me that one, Skippy?

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