by Kyle Becker at Becker News
President Biden is rushing off to Buffalo, apparently to console the families and local community impacted by the heinous mass shooting that took the lives of ten people on Sunday. It is a rare in-person visit from a president whose administration has overseen an explosion of violent crime.
The Buffalo mass shooting is being labeled a “hate crime,” due in part to the racial motivation of an 18-year-old with a bizarre radicalized worldview that purportedly includes an authoritarian leftist past and white nationalist bent. The suspect Payton Gendron has described himself as being “mild-moderate authoritarian left.” These inconvenient facts have not stopped departing Congresswoman Liz Cheney from getting in a petty cheapshot that House GOP leaders purportedly ‘enabled white nationalism.’
If anything, the known facts of the Buffalo case demonstrate the left’s argument that ‘white nationalism’ is the exclusive purview of the far-right rests on feet of clay. The shooter even appeared to wear the same Sonnenrad (or ‘Black Sun’) symbol on his chest as the neo-Nazi battalion Azov. It is further demonstration that the ideological boundaries that the media use to keep people divided are not entirely reflective of political reality.
This is Payton Gendron, the Buffalo shooter. Pay attention to the symbol on his chest. It’s used by the Azov Battalion in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/IIy2NGtq3u
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) May 15, 2022
Left-wing pundits have also desperately tried to rope in the Kyle Rittenhouse case, despite his acquittal for acting in self-defense and the attackers he shot being white.
Fox News gonna tell audience Payton Gendron was “Misunderstood loner” who drove to Buffalo to protect local businesses
Right-wing praising White supremacist Kyle Rittenhouse led to radicalization of another White superracist called Payton Gendron#PaytonGendron #GunControlNow pic.twitter.com/McHSRwSxJW
— Alicia Smith
#FBR (@AliciaSmith987) May 15, 2022
The shooting in Buffalo is the result of Fox News and the GOP praising Kyle Rittenhouse as a “hero” for shooting 2 innocent people — to death — and facing no legal consequences. It’s the result of Rittenhouse getting to meet the President at Mar-A-Lago to celebrate his acquittal.
— Dash Dobrofsky (@DashDobrofsky) May 14, 2022
This Buffalo shooting is part of the Rittenhouse Effect we have warned people about https://t.co/sm7VwjZCmJ
— Tariq Nasheed
(@tariqnasheed) May 15, 2022
The same media that ignored the Bernie-backing, explicitly anti-Trump views of a mass shooter who actually tried to kill Republican Congressmen is even weaponizing the Buffalo shooting to attack Tucker Carlson (although the suspect was far from being a fan of Fox News).
Thus, the Buffalo shooting was tailor-made to further the narrative that white supremacists are an existential threat to America, and thus, civil rights such as free speech must be curbed to stop this ideology from spreading. The radical left immediately seized on the opportunity to make a lone incident reflective of numerous other incidents that it had nothing in common with — all to smear political enemies.
The Buffalo shooting could more accurately be described as another missed case of glaring mental illness combined with the F.B.I. once again dropping the ball.
“New details have emerged regarding the alleged threat that accused Buffalo mass shooter Payton Gendron made in June 2021, leading the teenager to undergo a required mental health evaluation at a local hospital,” Fox News reported on Monday.
“Payton Gendron, now 18, said he wanted ‘to commit a murder-suicide’ in June 2021, prompting New York State Police to respond to the local high school and take the teen into custody, said Stephen Belongia, special agent-in-charge of the FBI’s Buffalo Field Office,” the report added.
Sadly, the American people are no longer surprised by such F.B.I. incompetence and malfeasance. Reports about the agency’s corruption and hyper-politicization under Attorney General Merrick Garland are commonplace.
It thus appears to be lost on many people that there was another mass shooting in America on Sunday. It happened at a church in Laguna Woods in Orange County, California. It claimed the life of one person and wounded five others.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department tweeted the known facts about the mass shooting on Monday.
“The Laguna Woods church shooting investigation has continued through the night. Teams continue to process the scene,” the sheriff’s department said.
“The suspect in the Laguna Woods church shooting has been identified as…
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