{"id":1484416,"date":"2022-05-19T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1484416"},"modified":"2022-05-19T13:30:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T17:30:19","slug":"fixing-the-blame-for-mass-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fixing-the-blame-for-mass-shootings\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing the Blame for Mass Shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffixing-the-blame-for-mass-shootings%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1484416&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"article-category\"><strong>OPINION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another mass shooting has rocked the nation. A seemingly deranged individual, striking out in an act of madness, gunned down eleven people Sunday in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/buffalo\/\">Buffalo<\/a>, New York, grocery store. News reports said the man charged with the shooting, 18-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/payton-gendron\/\">Payton Gendron<\/a>, was a \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d who chose the site for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/payton-gendron\/\">his<\/a> rampage specifically because of the area\u2019s large African American population.<\/p>\n<p>It was the most high-profile of several mass shootings over the past weekend. The United States Department of Justice said it was investigating this one \u201cas a hate crime and an act of racially-motivated violent extremism\u201d according to a statement from U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland. That, based on a review of the alleged shooter\u2019s online postings, is a study of the obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s some of what we know. Mr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/payton-gendron\/\">Gendron<\/a> wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/payton-gendron\/\">his<\/a> \u201cmanifesto\u201d that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/payton-gendron\/\">he<\/a> had been radicalized by extremist websites promoting hate, intolerance and racial division. \u201cI simply became racist after I learned the truth\u201d from those sites, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/payton-gendron\/\">he<\/a> wrote.<\/p>\n<p>This apparently isn\u2019t good enough for the members of the chattering classes who view shootings of this kind not just with outrage, as we all do, but as an opportunity to make points that advance the progressive agenda, particularly on gun control and the need to censor media organizations that fail to adhere to the left\/liberal party line. Sad to say, they were out front early trying to brand Mr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/payton-gendron\/\">Gendron<\/a> as a \u201cconservative\u201d \u2014 something <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/payton-gendron\/\">he<\/a> explicitly renounced in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/payton-gendron\/\">his<\/a> posts \u2014 and suggesting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/payton-gendron\/\">his<\/a> actions were motivated by Tucker Carlson, Rupert Murdoch and the Fox News organization.<\/p>\n<p>As they see it, it is all tied together by a concept known as \u201creplacement theory\u201d Mr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/payton-gendron\/\">Gendron<\/a> believed in and which Mr. Murdoch\u2019s critics argue he has given safe harbor on some of his news programs, especially the Carlson show. As theories go, that has about as much credibility as the idea the earth is flat.<\/p>\n<aside>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Mr. Carlson, whom Mr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/payton-gendron\/\">Gendron<\/a> does not mention in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/payton-gendron\/\">his<\/a> manifesto, has a history of sharply denouncing violence as a means to an end. \u201cPolitical violence begets political violence. That is always true. There\u2019s an iron wall, it never changes. And we have to be against that no matter who commits the violence or under what pretext,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/payton-gendron\/\">he<\/a> said on Jan. 6, 2021, after the U.S. Capitol was defiled by demonstrators, one of whom was shot and killed. \u201cWe have a duty to oppose all of this, not simply because political violence kills other people\u2019s children, which it does, but because in the end, it doesn\u2019t work. No good person will live a happier life because that girl was killed in the hallway of the Capitol today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To all appearances, Mr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/payton-gendron\/\">Gendron<\/a> does not seem to be a responsible individual. Neither are the commentators claiming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/payton-gendron\/\">his<\/a> radicalization was due in part to what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/payton-gendron\/\">he<\/a> saw on Fox News and other conservative channels and websites. To claim otherwise is the height of recklessness.<\/p>\n<p>Mass shootings are the responsibility of the person who pulled the trigger. No responsible conservative claimed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was responsible for the assault on an Alexandria baseball field in 2017 in which a supporter of his targeted Republican members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Shootings and other acts of violence that lack the mainstream media-approved supremacy stamp quickly fade from the scene. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/buffalo\/\">Buffalo<\/a> shooting grabbed the headlines, despite several other mass shootings that occurred on roughly the same day because that\u2019s the only one that fits the narrative the progressives are peddling.<\/p>\n<p>They are pushing an agenda and will use any opportunity to do it. They\u2019re not up in arms in the same way over the shootings of 21 people in Milwaukee \u2014 leaving three dead \u2014 and they don\u2019t seem concerned about how the Laguna Woods, California, church shooter got his gun. Only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/buffalo\/\">Buffalo<\/a> matters in the hourlong, televised dissertations on the possible motives we\u2019re being subjected to. The American people are owed better by the news organizations that claim to be working in their best interests. In the meantime, blame the shooter for his crime, not someone or something else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPINION: Another mass shooting has rocked the nation. 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