Chgo’s Mayor Daley: Guns, Not Islam, Caused Fort Hood Massacre

November 11, 2009 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Chicago, Constitution, Cook County, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Corruption, Guns, Liberals, Mayor Richard Daley, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, State Government, Warner Todd Huston |

-By Warner Todd Huston

Just like an unprincipled, self-interested, tin-eared politician, Mayor Richard Daley decided to use the massacre at Fort Hood to flog his prosaic anti-gun message in Chicago.

When asked if Islam had anything at all to do with the Fort Hood massacre and if Muslims might expect some sort of backlash or anti-Islamic movement because of Nidal Hasan’s evil act of terror, Daley replied:

“Every day in society people are getting killed, unfortunately. America loves guns, we love guns to a point that we see the devastation on a daily basis. You don’t blame a group, you don’t blame a society… i,i,immigrant community because of actions of one group, uh one individual, you cannot say that.”

So, guns caused the Fort Hood massacre? Of course, this absurd claim does not square with the Major Hasan’s history of radical Islamism, but, hey, if you can use someone else’s “tragedy” to push your political message… what the heck, eh?So, not only was Daley his usually inarticulate self, but he found himself not above using this crime to push his own particular political message; his anti-gun zealotry.

But Daley is not unlike every other Democrat and leftist in America who are busy burying their heads in the sand and pretending radical Islam is either incidental or even non-existent.

Still, let’s take Daley’s concept and explore it. Did India’s “love of guns” cause the astonishing terrorist attacks in Mumbai? Maybe England’s “love of bombs” caused the London bombing? Or maybe Spain’s “love of wrecking trains” caused he attacks in Madrid in 2004?

And then there is the other absurd disconnect evidenced by Daley’s half sentient thinking. Is Mayor Daley proposing that a military base doesn’t have good enough gun control? And can we review just how Nidal Hasan was stopped… by a gun wielded and brave female police sergeant? A gun stopped Hasan if we follow Daley’s sparse logic.

Of course, the truth of the matte is that guns had nothing at all to do with the cause of this massacre. The cause was the tenets of radical Islam espoused by a man named Nidal Hasan. The guns did nothing of themselves. They are but tools. It is people that kill, not guns.

But if we wanted sense, logic and clear thinking we wouldn’t go to Mayor Daley or a Democrat.

(Cross posted at RedCounty.com.)
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, TheRealityCheck.org, RedState.com, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, and the New Media Journal, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. Warner is also the editor of the Cook County Page for RedCounty.com.

He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of PubliusForum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston

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