A couple of days ago, I entertained myself for about two minutes by playing the Fox News / CNN switcheroo game. Between the IRS scandal and the Big Brother database revelations, it seemed to me that the country was in the middle of a major political storm, so I figured both networks would at least be covering these rapidly unfolding events.
Well, guess what? Fox was covering it big-time, but CNN was focusing on a shooting incident at a college in Santa Monica, California. Obviously, any shooting of innocent people is deplorable, but I found myself wondering why this story should be considered bigger national news than major national events which caused even the New York Times to editorialize that President Obama “has now lost all credibility.”
To CNN, the type of gun used in a shooting was bigger news than the biggest presidential scandal in many years. Nothing surprising about that. Standard damage control by an outfit that is so in the tank for Obama that they might as well be working directly for the White House.
Still, I was curious about something that it seemed to me was being deliberately obfuscated.
Who did it?
In reporting a murder story, little details like the identity of the culprit are supposed to matter, right? Maybe I’m getting too old, but since when has the basic whodunnit question become irrelevant and immaterial?
Why is the type of gun used by a particular son of a bitch considered more important than his identity?
It wasn’t until last night that I learned the suspect’s name, and I immediately understood the problem. It turns out that the suspect (who had been described repeatedly as “a white man”) has a name that our betters in the news media think we are better off not knowing.
Zawarhi. Jeez, what a creepy name. Why, it almost sounds like the same name as one of the most dangerous mass murderers on the planet.
I’m not the only one to notice the problem.
Whoever this Zawahri character was and whatever his motivations, his name alone messes up the gun control narrative they were busily ramping up.
I think his candidacy as poster boy may be over. “White man” though he may be, his whiteness has been tarnished.
Worst of all for those who want to control our thinking, what would have been a great opportunity for another white privilege lecture has most likely been lost.
UPDATE: Clayton Cramer has more, and notes the utter failure of California’s strict gun control laws:
…California has had an assault weapon ban since 1989 (the year the shooter was born) and on transfers of high-capacity magazines since 2000 (when the shooter was eleven years old). It has required all firearms transfers to be done through a background check since 1991 (when the shooter was two) and it appears that the shooter had been committed at some point — which is one of the things the California background check includes.
So, the murderer clearly violated a number of draconian gun control laws before he started shooting.
How surprising it must be to the liberals that a homicidal criminal would fail to obey the law!
MORE: From the Guardian Express: Santa Monica College Shooting Reveals Inconvenient Truths.
Comments
3 responses to “The wrong name can ruin a perfectly good gun-grab narrative”
John Zawahiri: his first name suggests that he is of Christian Arab background.
Lest we let out a sigh of relief, recall that Sirhan Sirhan, who killed Robert Kennedy because of RFK’s support of Israel, was also an Arab Christian.
Not to mention Helen Thomas, also of Christian Arab background. At least Helen Thomas didn’t do her damage with a gun.
I remember reading somewhere that one of the Nigerians who butchered that British soldier was born and raised Christian.
California has had an assault weapon ban since 1989 (the year the shooter was born) and on transfers of high-capacity magazines since 2000 (when the shooter was eleven years old). It has required all firearms transfers to be done through a background check since 1991 (when the shooter was two) and it appears that the shooter had been committed at some point — which is one of the things the California background check includes.
Simply more reason why weapons bans need to be expanded to every state in the nation, and when that doesn’t work we expand it to nations we do business with, and we will use our weapons, if necessary to enforce those…wait a minute…