Enthralled by Victims Left Seeks to Boost Their Numbers
I belong to Pink Pistols, a group of 2nd amendment supporting LGTBQ and their allies, and would like to see local chapters to volunteer to post armed members at gay nightspots around the country. All it would have taken to save lives in Orlando would have been a single club goer carrying a handgun. Terrorists plan their attacks thoroughly. Orlando’s shooter had been to the club over a dozen times so he knew exactly what to expect and could carefully plan to maximize the carnage. Just the possibility of an armed defender changes the dynamic of terror, introducing an element of uncertainty that either forces the attacker to choose another target or causes him to stop and seek cover during the attack, giving victims precious seconds to escape.
Unfortunately liberals are taking the exact opposite approach, trying to convince the LGTBQ community to disarm itself further and take on the cause of gun control. As Ed Krayewski notes at Reason, this completely ignores the reality of attacks outside of the US where gun control is rife yet terrorists in France and Kenya have no difficulty obtaining full auto weapons banned in the United States.
But countries with stricter gun control laws than in the U.S. are struggling to find something to do to keep guns out of the hands of terrorists too. In Europe, while it may be far harder for law-abiding residents to acquire legal firearms, terrorists are able to acquire actual “weapons of war,” automatic weapons, that have are largely banned in the U.S. despite the misleading rhetoric used by the anti-gun left. Neither were tough gun laws able to stop the 2013 radical Islamist attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya or the 2015 attack on Garissa University in Kenya or numerous other terrorist attacks around the world.
As I wrote in a previous post, I find this tactic of using terror attacks to advance gun control by the Left not only misguided but downright evil. Disarming law abiding citizens does not make us safer when terrorists have shown no difficulty in obtaining weapons in nations where they are banned. But the Left likes victims, so I suppose it makes sense to push policies that increases their numbers. Still, that’s pretty sick.
Jack:
Adam Gruler, an Orlando police officer with 15 years police experience, was there in uniform working security and traded shots with Omar Mateen.
How did you miss that?
18 June 2016, 10:15 amScott Kirwin:
Jack
First, you never responded to my email a few months ago 🙁 .
Second, because most press accounts didn’t mention him. Given the number of rounds Mateen was carrying it’s quite likely Gruler saved lives because 1) He was on the scene and responded quickly. 2) Mateen wasn’t aware of his presence because he didn’t target him first as terrorists have done in Israel.
Even a week later it’s still unclear how things went down at that club. The media accounts have had Mateen texting his wife, checking his 5 FB accounts, so I’m wondering how he managed to kill so many people. I’ve been to clubs so I know how packed they can be especially on a Saturday night. But shooting moving targets isn’t easy, and I’m suspecting that some of the dead were likely killed in the crossfire. This doesn’t absolve Mateen of any of the blame, and so far what I’ve read suggests the Orlando PD handled the situation very well given the circumstances.
When Gruler responded Mateen moved deeper into the club and holed up in the bathroom area. Orlando police report, “Our officer engaged in a gun battle with that suspect and the suspect went deeper into the club where more shots were fired. The incident then turned into a hostage situation.” The Orlando Sentinel reports, “Lt. Scott Smith and Sgt. Jeffrey Backhaus arrived a couple minutes later and rushed into the club. There was another flurry of shots between them and Mateen.”
Gruler clearly changed the dynamics of the situation by turning a massacre into a hostage situation. It is not optimal given the likelihood that some of the dead were likely killed by Orlando PD bullets, but lives were also likely saved by Gruler’s first response.
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