Political Correctness Murders 14 in CA
Commentary by Sanford D. Horn
December 04, 2015
Thanks to a pusillanimous weasel fearing to be labeled a “racial
profiler,” 14 innocent American men and women are dead in San Bernardino, CA –
slaughtered by two Muslim extremists committing jihad in the worst terrorist
attack on American soil since September 11, 2001.
The deceased, lest they be forgotten in the din of media coverage
of the two Muslim extremist terrorists, are the following:
Robert Adams, age 40, survived by wife Summer and a 20
month old daughter;
Isaac Amanios, 60, survived by wife Hiwet and three
children; he fled his native Eritrea to escape the violence and give his family
a better life;
Benneta Bethadal, 46, survived by husband Arlen Verdehyou
and three children; she escaped Islamic extremism of Iran at age 18;
Harry Bowman, 46, survived by two daughters;
Sierra Clayborn, 27;
Juan Espinoza, 50, survived by wife Sandra and two
children;
Aurora Godoy, 26 – the youngest victim, survived by
husband James and a 22 month old son;
Shannon Johnson, 45, shielded co-worker Denise Peraza –
wounded, but survived;
Daniel Kaufman, 42;
Damian Meins, 58, survived by two children;
Tin Nguyen, 31, survived by her mother, who, with Tin,
fled Vietnam when Tin was eight years old;
Nicholas Thalasinos, 52, survived by wife Jennifer;
Yvette Velasco, 27, survived by her parents and three
sisters;
Michael Wetzel, 37, survived by wife Renee and six
children.
While this is the 215th mass shooting of the
year and 59th since October, make no mistake this is not an issue of
gun control, but an issue of terrorism and the invasion into the United States
by Muslim extremist terrorists. The cache of weapons found in the home of Sayed
Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 27, was akin to an arsenal large
enough to take down numerous installations around San Bernardino and beyond.
The attack on his workplace holiday party may have simply been the appetizer
for a more sinister entrée where greater carnage would have been the result.
The four guns owned by Farook – two long guns and two
handguns, were acquired legally. It is the dozen pipe bombs found in the
Redlands residence that should be of concern. Pipe bombs the likes of which
were found in an al-Qaeda magazine – a publication easily accessible in the
public domain.
It is the fact that Malik, born in Pakistan, and had
pledged allegiance to ISIS on social media that went untracked and unchallenged
that should be of concern. Yet, in typical Barack Obama fashion of
fecklessness, he couldn’t see the forest for the trees as he immediately called
for increased gun control laws while the shooting was still a fluid situation.
His head continually buried in the sand, Obama equates San Bernardino with gun
control, an issue he relishes, instead of the more hand wringing issue of
terrorism rendering Obama more than just a little uncomfortable.
Once again it is imperative to remind Mr. Obama that an
increase in gun legislation will only impact the lives of honest, law-abiding
gun owners. Criminals, whether terrorists or the garden variety gangs and
thugs, have not, do not, and will not abide by gun laws – that’s what makes
them criminals in the first place. And more and more gun laws restricting
law-abiding gun owners are simply restricting their Second Amendment rights.
The same is true for these so-called gun-free zones.
Whether public schools, college campuses, work places, or any other locale
announcing itself as a gun-free zone is an open invitation to criminal behavior,
and also a restriction of the Second Amendment. Sandy Hook Elementary School in
Connecticut was a gun-free zone that saw the slaughter of 20 children and six
adults could have been prevented had there been an armed officer on campus.
Democrat frontrunner for President Hillary Clinton issued
the outlandish statement that gun manufacturers be held responsible for such
mass shootings. Using that feeble attempt at logic, car manufacturers should be
held responsible for fatalities in a multi-car pile-up. Sound absurd? Of course
it is.
What needs to be limited is not accessibility to guns,
but the political correctness that played a role in the murder of the 14
innocents in San Bernardino. Political correctness has run so far amuck that
people are afraid of appearances – afraid to say something after seeing something
– the very see something, say something mantra even preached by Obama himself –
unless Muslim extremists are involved. Political correctness is literally
scaring people to death – people are frightened to the core to speak up, say
what needs to be said, for fear of being labeled a bigot, a racist, a racial
profiler or worse – perhaps at the cost of their job or position within a
community.
It is political correctness that had liberals, left-wing
media, and anti-Christians blame an entire religion on one lunatic’s shooting
rampage at a Colorado Planned Parenthood. Yet, those same people and
institutions won’t even utter the words Muslim extremist or Islamic extremist
or jihad or jihadists even when the evidence is as plain as vanilla ice cream.
Evidence such as the aforementioned pledge made by Malik
to ISIS. This is the same Malik who had a Pakistani passport, met Farook
on-line, married him in Saudi Arabia, and by all reports was the impetus in the
radicalization of her husband, who heretofore had no criminal record. Malik
garnered entry into the United States via a visa issued to those to be
betrothed to an American. Farook then traveled to Pakistan and Mecca during the
summer of 2014. Coupled with the cache of weaponry found in the couple’s residence
and all roads lead to the Muslim couple being terrorists.
Yet, in spite of the overwhelming evidence, Obama still blinded
by his own wishful thinking, said “it’s possible it’s terrorism; it’s possible
it’s work place violence.” This is the same Obama who said ISIS was contained
the day prior to the Muslim extremist terror assault in Paris. Clearly one
cannot contain ISIS/ISIL, al-Qaeda, or any other name one wishes to assign
these terror operations. It is this level of obtuseness from the White House
that encourages Obama’s minions to perpetuate this notion of blame America first;
don’t say anything negative about Islam because that foments the violent
behavior from the terrorists. The longer this behavior continues, the less
shocking it is when these attacks occur, whether overseas, or now and in the
future, at home. These savages must be ended, eliminated, eradicated – killed –
yes, killed. We are at war with radical Islam and they want to kill us. In war
you kill your enemy and the enemy is radical Islam.
The enemy is no longer knocking at the gates. The enemy
has breached our perimeter and they must be stopped. Stopped by curtailing
immigration from countries voting against the United States more than 50
percent of the time. Stopped by curtailing visa for students, guests, and tourists
from those same countries. Profile if necessary, and apparently it is. Priority
one of this government should be to keep America and Americans safe. Without a
safe homeland America can no longer be the beacon of hope and freedom for those
“yearning to breathe free.”
Sanford D. Horn is
a writer and educator living in Westfield, IN.
