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Hot Takes: Chris Murphy Gets Much-Needed Schooling After Whining About 'Overheated' GOP Rhetoric

August 11, 2022 by Sister Toldjah Leave a Comment

In terms of opening his mouth and inserting his foot, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) has distinguished himself from his Democratic Congressional colleagues in a multitude of ways, most notably by displaying an uncanny Eric Swalwell-like tendency to type before he thinks on the Twitter machine, and in the process removing all doubt as to the highly questionable levels of his intelligence.

We’ve documented numerous instances here, including a sickening tweet he posted in July declaring after the Uvalde mass shooting police response video was released that it supposedly proved that the “good guy with a gun” scenario “was a gun industry created lie, designed to sell more guns.” Murphy, of course, did not revisit his claim after the “good guy with a gun” scenario indeed played out in both Greenwood, Indiana and Missouri barely a week later.

In any event, on Thursday Murphy once again did his thing by proclaiming in response to reports about the attempted breach of the FBI’s Cincinnati office and the subsequent six-hour standoff where a shootout occurred and the alleged perpetrator was killed that “The overheated rhetoric of Trump, his supporters, and Republican leaders is threatening the lives of law enforcement.”

The overheated rhetoric of Trump, his supporters, and Republican leaders is threatening the lives of law enforcement. https://t.co/LLerdTYabD

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) August 11, 2022

While it’s not a surprise whatsoever to see a Democrat “never let a crisis go to waste” even in a situation like this one where the investigation is just getting started and possible motives are not yet known, conservatives who are beyond fed up with the constant lazy stereotyping they inevitably see from leftists after incidents like the one in Cincinnati took Murphy to school big time and provided him with a few inconvenient reminders:

The Democrat nominee for Vice President raised money to bail out rioters burning down police stations. These people are phony pieces of garbage.

— Jeremy Frankel 🍊 (@FrankelJeremy) August 12, 2022

STHU pic.twitter.com/O5Qk7vFLbK

— 🍊Rhonda🍊 (@rhondacarlisle9) August 11, 2022

“Overheated rhetoric”?! Both you and your Majority Leader can take all the seats. https://t.co/0cQl8SvG4F pic.twitter.com/2MTzzcdLJe

— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) August 11, 2022

Supporters of your party opened fire at a baseball practice & nearly killed @SteveScalise.

Supporters of your party rioted, committed assault, set fires, & looted “Nike” stores for social Justice.

Supporters of your party tried to assassinate a Supreme Court Justice.

So, 🤫 https://t.co/aH2QbQiDh3

— Marc Lotter (@marc_lotter) August 12, 2022

I’m old enough to remember when Steve Scalise was shot. When Rand Paul was physically attacked. When mobs of Dem voters surrounded and threatened Trump supporters at campaign events; conservative speakers on campuses; & ordinary citizens during the 2020 riots. Smfh
😡😡😡 https://t.co/jR6xM7li52

— AroundTown (@Bikerboots) August 11, 2022

Perhaps most importantly, this compilation of video clips of powerful Democrats including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Financial Committee Chair Maxine Waters behaving very badly and urging confrontations and “uprisings” in the streets was shared in the comments:

This keeps disappearing? 😂 pic.twitter.com/5XTp5i8b4n

— ᖇ. ᔕᑕOTT ᔕIᑕᗩᖇIO 2.0 (@SicarioScott) August 31, 2020

Shorter version:

Over heated Rhetoric 👇👇👇👇👇 https://t.co/Aof7o0ACEW pic.twitter.com/WR76hqxNxA

— 🍊Ultra MAGA 1776🍊 (@MidnightCry11) August 12, 2022

Going back even further than all that, I remember the July 2016 sniper-style ambush and murders of four Dallas police officers and one transit officer by a deranged supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement who admitted he had been inspired by their anti-police rhetoric though he claimed to have acted alone.

Astonishingly, then-President Barack Obama suggested the motives of the shooter, who police said had expressed the desire to kill white officers and who also had expressed interest in black nationalist groups like the Black Panthers, were “hard to untangle.”

And that, in a nutshell, explains how these things are “supposed” to work according to Democrats. We’re not supposed to prematurely speculate on the possible political motives of what appear to be left-leaning perps, but it’s perfectly okay to do it in other situations where Democrats immediately try to do the “six degrees of Kevin Bacon” thing.

It’s tiresome, but it’s who they are. Never hesitate to call them out on, it though, because they hate to be reminded of the incendiary rhetoric that frequently emanates from their side of the aisle, like the kind we saw from Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez among others in the immediate aftermath of SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade.

Flashback: Ben Sasse Obliterates Chris Murphy for ‘Twitter Self-Pleasuring’ in Heated Ukraine Aid Dispute

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New Orleans PD response time is why you need a gun

August 1, 2022 by Tom Knighton Leave a Comment

Major cities tend to favor gun control. People figure they don’t need a gun because they can just call the police. In many cases, that works. After all, larger police departments tend to have the kind of manpower were help can be just a few minutes away.

That doesn’t help if seconds count, but in New Orleans, it seems even if they don’t, you’re still screwed.

It is one of the most startling crime stats to emerge in recent months: It takes New Orleans police an average of 2½ hours to respond to a 9-1-1 call, according to a new analysis presented to the City Council on Wednesday.

That figure, calculated by the data firm AH Datalytics and presented to the council’s criminal justice committee, was determined after looking at response times for all calls — including low-priority incidents, like fender-benders or stolen cars where residents are in little danger.

The New Orleans Police Department immediately took issue with how data analyst Jeff Asher crunched the numbers, asserting that residents should focus instead on the department’s response times for emergencies, which police get to largely within minutes.

Low-priority calls are often placed at the end of long backlogs, driving up the overall average.

The problem is that what can start as a low-priority call can become a high-priority call pretty quickly. And, of course, if you’ve already been marked down as low-priority, no one is coming faster unless you can make yet another call to 9-1-1.

At least some on the city council agree.

City Council members said the situation is a crisis that demands immediate action from City Hall.

“We’re just done with the talk,” said Council President Helena Moreno. “We just have to be really honest and say that potentially, people’s lives could be at stake.”

The problem is that the New Orleans Police Department is having a manpower problem. They simply don’t have enough officers on the job to put them on the streets.

It doesn’t help that funding for law enforcement was cut in 2021 to the tune of $15 million.

Earlier this year, the police union president cited progressive politicians as the reason still more officers are leaving the city, some for lower-paying positions. After all, why work to make arrests when the bad guy is going to just end up back on the streets in no time flat?

All of this brings me to point to this as why gun rights matter.

We cannot trust the police to save us. Even if Uvalde hadn’t happened, this would be a big warning sign that maybe, just maybe, the police won’t instantly respond to your 9-1-1 call, the same call you’re counting on to keep you safe from that bump in the dark.

But if you have a gun, you have the means to protect yourself. It doesn’t matter if it takes the police two and a half hours to finally get to your door because you’ll still be alive to open it for them.

Remember that even in the best of cities, you can only count on the police to get there in time to draw a chalk outline around the body. It’s your gun rights that give you the ability to make sure the body in question isn’t yours. It’s not a difficult decision to make

Filed Under: <![CDATA[defund the police]]>, <![CDATA[Gun Rights]]>, <![CDATA[Guns]]>, <![CDATA[New Orleans]]>, <![CDATA[Police]]>, <![CDATA[slow police response times]]>, <![CDATA[Video]]>, Bearing Arms, News

What's next for the House “assault weapons ban” legislation?

July 28, 2022 by Cam Edwards Leave a Comment

House Democratic leadership is still expressing at least some optimism that HR 1808, which was pulled from the House Rules Committee calendar on Wednesday, can be revived once lawmakers return to Capitol Hill after their August recess, but it sounds like they’re still not assured of the 216 votes needed for passage.

Buried deep within the Washington Post’s newest report on how Democratic infighting has led to a number of their bills stuck in legislative limbo is a telling aside about the hesitations that some Democrats are still expressing about the gun ban bill.

The recent string of mass shootings across the country — particularly after 19 children and two teachers were killed at a Uvalde, Tex., elementary school — motivated many Democrats to reignite a push to vote on an assault weapons ban for the first time in decades.

But there was uncertainty that an assault weapons ban has the votes in a chamber where Democrats have only a razor-thin four-member majority . Leaders had hoped to tack the ban onto the tranche of public safety bills, which included police funding as well as community policing measures and mental health response teams, to ensure it could pass this month. Members now hope to reconsider the package by mid-August, when they return from a break.

The Post says that there “was” uncertainty about the vote count for the gun ban, but they don’t provide any real evidence that Nancy Pelosi has a solid head count in favor of approval. Instead, it sounds like several Democrats are still very much on the fence.

A majority of Democrats agree on several other bills that make up the legislative package, including dissolving a civil liability law protecting gunmakers.

But leadership’s decision to pull the public safety bills until there is a compromise has made it difficult to vote on just the assault weapons ban, since it relies on all but four Democrats to support it.

Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.), who recently lost his primary bid to a liberal Democrat, has publicly said he would vote against the ban. Other front-line members representing rural districts also expressed hesitancy in backing it.

“I have no comment right now until I find out a little bit more. A lot more,” said Rep. Tom O’Halleran (Ariz.), who is considered one of the most endangered Democrats this cycle. “Some of it is very surprising.”

HR 1808 was introduced in March of last year, so O’Halleran and other undecided Democrats have had plenty of time to peruse the text before now. I think what’s really surprising to endangered Democrats is the strategy that Nancy Pelosi has adopted: pairing funding for law enforcement with a ban on some of the most commonly-sold firearms in the country.

As much as Democrats have tried to run away from the defund the police rhetoric espoused by many of their members over the past couple of years, progressive opposition to grants for local law enforcement appears to be strong enough to block the bill from passing on its own, which is why Pelosi decided to make this a package deal. Democrats representing deep blue districts were expected to hold their nose and vote for more funding for police, while those representatives in purple and light blue (or even slightly red) districts were supposed to grit their teeth and endorse a gun ban. I’m guessing there’s gonna be a lot of arm twisting on the part of Pelosi and her lieutenants during the recess, but the closer we get to Election Day the less likely it is that endangered Democrats are going to want to sign off on a gun ban… especially one that has no chance of actually becoming law.

It’s striking to me, however, that increasing funding for law enforcement is more controversial among Democrats than criminalizing the sale, purchase, or transfer of tens of millions of lawfully-possessed firearms, especially at a time when violent crime levels in many cities are 30% higher or more than they were pre-pandemic and many departments are seeing staffing shortfalls of hundreds of officers. While we don’t have an exact whip count, based on the reporting by POLITICO, the Washington Post, and other outlets it sure sounds like there are more Democrats objecting to the law enforcement grants than there are opposed to the ban on so-called assault weapons.

Among voters, however, the opposite is true. Support for increasing police funding is far more popular than a ban on “assault weapons”, which, according to a recent Quinnipiac poll, now draws support from 49% of respondents; the lowest recorded number for the pollster since it began asking that question.

This is a debacle for those congressional Democrats in danger of being swept away in a red wave election, even if Pelosi does manage to cobble together enough votes to pass her package of gun control and police funding. At a time when many Americans are so worried about violent crime and their own personal safety that even people who once hated guns are now carrying one for self-defense, Democrats are more inclined to put gun control laws aimed at the law-abiding on the books than give local law enforcement some extra funds to take violent criminals off the street. That’s a tough message to swing district voters in any environment, but if Pelosi insists on packaging these two bills together just months before Election Day it’s going to be a gift to the Republicans challenging Democratic House members like Tom O’Halleran.

Filed Under: <![CDATA[2022 elections]]>, <![CDATA[Assault Weapons Ban]]>, <![CDATA[defund the police]]>, <![CDATA[Gun Control]]>, <![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]>, <![CDATA[police funding]]>, <![CDATA[Tom O'Halleran]]>, <![CDATA[Video]]>, Bearing Arms, News

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