San Diego: County Gun Group Menaces City Council Candidate -- El Paso: 21 Year Old White Kid Kills Because He Hates Mexicans
Another weekend, another mass shooting. Dozens of Walmart shoppers in El Paso were killed and wounded by a shooter who drove 600 miles to make sure his act of white terrorism got noticed.
Meanwhile, our home grown collection of Second Amendment advocates is engaged in a campaign that includes threatening the children and relatives of gun safety advocate and D7 council candidate Wendy Wheatcroft.
The San Diego County Gun Owners Association has more than 7,400 Likes on their Facebook page. I’m sure many of those folks are there because of a concern about the rights of gun owners. Others, not so much.
https://twitter.com/Wendy4SD/status/1158065407330271232?s=20
The advisory board for the group, as listed on their website, includes State Senator Brian Jones, Cajon Valley Union School District Trustee Jim Miller, and Jeweler Leo Hamel, whose home and business was raided earlier this year by the feds as part of an investigation into firearms trafficking. Member Marco Cisneros is running for San Diego Unified School Board seat D.
The SD Gun Owners Association appears to be especially upset over the City Attorney’s vigorous enforcement of Red Flag laws allowing police or family members to petition a state court to order the temporary removal of firearms from a person who may present a danger to others or themselves.
It just so happens that Council Candidate Wendy Wheatcroft was in Washington DC this weekend for the national gathering of Moms Demand Action. Five hundred plus attendees at the conference gave up time allotted for an awards dinner for a candlelight march to the White House in the wake of the El Paso shooting.
San Diego talk radio host Carl DeMaio appeared at a press conference in 2016 when the gun owners to announced their opposition to Proposition 63, the now-suspended-due-to-lawsuits measure requiring background checks on ammunition purchases and banning large large capacity magazines.
https://twitter.com/SD_stoopcrone/status/1158060386601410562?s=20
DeMaio, who may or may not be running for Rep. Duncan Hunter’s seat, also made the news this weekend with a typically classless remark. From Times of San Diego:
Gen X’er DeMaio, 44, frequently cited millennial Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democrat from New York City he calls one of the “Fascist Four.”
He said if he won a Congress race, he’d use his office to “basically do what AOC does — but with an IQ.”
DeMaio played a clip in which Ocasio-Cortez talks about never having seen a garbage disposal. He joked that he’d show her how it works and guide her to “put your hand in here and flip the switch.”
He immediately retreated, saying: “No, I wouldn’t do that.”
Social Media Commentary on the El Paso Shooting
https://twitter.com/LorenaSGonzalez/status/1157826502018252800?s=20
https://twitter.com/MalcolmNance/status/1157768216506261504?s=20
https://twitter.com/acnewsitics/status/1157758854811279360?s=20
https://twitter.com/DemocracyStorm/status/1158060536552206337?s=20
And the excuses/misdirection pour in...
https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/1157787667981053954?s=20
https://twitter.com/psychdr100/status/1157806424853901312?s=20
https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/1157784170128654336?s=20
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1157765808367591424?s=20
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1157725782300659713?s=20
Finally, Voice of San Diego editor Scott Lewis’ words published in the wake of the Poway shooting ring true:
We have been talking about what happened in Poway as just some type of animalistic plague of the human condition. Like this cartoon that ran in the Union-Tribune, it’s a beast ripping through our multicultural consensus.
But it is not a beast or an animalistic part of our society we have not yet been able to suppress. It is an active network of men refining a coherent ideology. They are using the internet to distribute it. Just like ISIS, this network of terrorists does not need to train and radicalize its adherents in foreign lands and smuggle them to countries they target.
Unlike ISIS, though, these men march in our streets. Their fears about what immigrants are doing to this country are openly embraced at the highest levels.
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PS- Hey folks, if it seems like I’m doing a lot of cutting & pasting lately, it’s true. I broke a bone in my hand tripping while walking on one of San Diego’s lumpy sidewalks. Typing with a cast on your arm sucks.