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This last week has been revealing.

//I just joined the National Rifle Association.

Although I?ve always been somewhat open-minded about gun control, especially high-powered weapons, the current mob mentality of the Left?incited by propagandists in the media?has closed my mind. The spectacle over the Florida school shooting proves the Left will exploit any tragedy, manipulate any victim, and demonize any detractor in their scorched-earth strategy to regain power. Further, its purported solution seeks to empower the public authorities who utterly and despicably failed to stop this massacre at every chance.

Unhinged elites + corrupt government = my gun.

The ruling class cannot be trusted. The revelation yesterday that a deputy sheriff stood down while helpless teenagers were slaughtered by a disturbed young man goes beyond a dereliction of duty. It reflects the lack of common decency pervasive among our protected institutions and their bureaucratic lackeys, whether they be positioned at the Department of Motor Vehicles, Veterans Administration hospitals, the top brass at the FBI, or in your local police force. In addition to their incompetence and inhumanity, we are further humiliated as they lie to us, place blame on others, and then get to ?retire? with full benefits. (It?s only a matter of time before we find out Scot Peterson, the deputy who cowardly crouched outside Stoneman Douglas High School, listening to bullets and screams, will still get his taxpayer-funded pension and collect a sizable portion of his six-figure salary package.)//

A theme of this blog has been that we have incompetent elites. Initially, I was willing to cut some slack for the FBI and local sheriff who received multiple warnings about the most recent Florida shooters threats and actions, but every day we get another revelation about how detailed the information was, and then the revelation that the sheriff knew that at least one but maybe four of his deputies were waiting outside the building while unarmed, unprotected coaches and students ran in to do something to help, and that the sheriff went on CNN to blame the NRA knowing this, just underscores the toxic cocktail of arrogance and incompetence that we have come to expect.

Full post as published by Lex Communis on February 25, 2018 (boomark / email).