{"id":4369,"date":"2017-10-03T22:05:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T02:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=4369"},"modified":"2017-10-03T22:38:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T02:38:00","slug":"a-blaze-of-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/a-blaze-of-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"A BLAZE OF SHAME"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we all stand aghast at the atrocity in Las Vegas, one of the many things that grinds my teeth is hearing the talking heads on TV talk about the evil POS who perpetrated it \u201cgoing out in a blaze of glory.\u201d\u00a0 A blaze of what?!?<\/em><\/p>\n

They should call it a blaze of shame, because there can be no glory in the cowardly murder of the innocent.<\/p>\n

He literally shot fish in a barrel: from his aerie, with a rifle equipped with a mechanical device to enhance speed of fire, on a bipod on a laboriously-created platform in his hotel suite, to shoot at tens of thousands of people who were packed like sardines in a two-acre venue.<\/p>\n

Naturally, the first cries before the blood had dried came from Hillary Clinton and those like her: \u201cBan silencers, which would have made it worse!\u201d\u00a0 \u201cBan private ownership of machine guns,\u201d no legal example of which was used here; only one of which since 1934 has to my knowledge been used to commit murder.\u00a0 (And that one case involved a police officer, who claimed it went off by accident.) See here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And of course, the cry is now \u201cBan bump-fire type stocks, etc.\u201d, even though to my knowledge this is the first time that <\/em>device has been used to commit murder, too.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s human nature when we see a terrible thing happen to feel and say, \u201cWe must do Something!\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 Unfortunately, that tends to quickly turn into, \u201cWe must blame Someone!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

That someone, naturally, is gun owners and the NRA, in the eyes of those committed to left-wing agendas.\u00a0 At least one pundit from \u201cthe port side\u201d has called for NRA to be declared a terrorist organization, and another has called for white males who own a lot of guns and ammunition to be \u201cprofiled.\u201d\u00a0 A CBS attorney was fired for tweeting that she couldn\u2019t feel sorry for the victims at the country music concert in Las Vegas, because she assumed they must be \u201crepugs\u201d\u2026 Republicans.\u00a0 Talk about profiling\u2026<\/p>\n

Amidst all this shameful behavior, though, we\u2019ve seen things which make us proud to be Americans. The ordinary American citizens at the concert who shielded other people\u2019s bodies with their own, and risked being killed to drag others out of the field of fire.\u00a0 The splendid performance of Las Vegas\u2019 emergency services personnel, from the police to the firefighter\/paramedics to the staffs at the hospitals.<\/p>\n

There is much more to learn about this atrocity. Law enforcement is dealing with one of the most complicated crime scenes in American history, and the background investigation will also take a considerable amount of time.\u00a0 Doubtless, more examples of American heroism will surface.\u00a0 So, unfortunately, will more examples of shallow political ambition and \u201cpolitical identity\u201d hatred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we all stand aghast at the atrocity in Las Vegas, one of the many things that grinds my teeth is hearing the talking heads on TV talk about the evil POS who perpetrated it \u201cgoing out in a blaze of glory.\u201d\u00a0 A blaze of what?!? They should call it a blaze of shame, because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-events"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4372,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions\/4372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}