Uvalde Incited

Here it comes. This demonizing of the NRA, which has become so fashionable with the left, is beyond preposterous. Scapegoating an organization that promotes the rights of law-abiding gun owners and teaches gun safety is like accusing AAA of being responsible for the increase in motor vehicle accidents. And I don’t recall any of these heinous mass murderers being card-carrying members of the association. Further, all these calls for conservative politicians to boycott the NRA annual meeting is yet another attempt to link the organization to gun crime. By not showing up, you are therefore endorsing the opinion that they are somehow responsible. Post pandemic traffic deaths are up, so naturally, I’m going to boycott NASCAR because they promote driving fast. Absurd. And Beto O’Rourke’s embarrassingly self-serving performance at the Uvalde press conference should make even a staunch progressive blanch. Standing on the backs of dead children to further your political ambition is, at best repugnant. Any liberals looking for white privilege need look no further. El Paso-born Beto is a product of notoriously liberal Columbia University, where he briefly entertained a career as a bassist in a rock band before pursuing a career in business and then politics. Really. Think AOC, a self-aggrandizing politician, but without the horse eyes, with equally annoying head wagging gestures. We have to stop this partisan posturing and address the real problem, or as the left likes to say, the root causes. There is something wrong with our culture, with our youth, something that is producing criminals without a moral compass and politicians without conscience.