We could say that all mass shootings are inspired by hatred. But many are carried out by deranged individuals, susceptible to violence and possessing no clear and distinct political or religious motives. These disturbed, mentally unstable people are unhinged by the strain of the postmodern age and what they see and experience, receptive to the influences of the perverse degeneration of the popular culture, media sensationalism, and the pursuit of celebrity status, even if they pay with their own lives to achieve the dubious notoriety they seek. These types of rampages may be the most common type of mass shootings, at least in the United States.
But there are other types of rampage shootings which are clearly of different varieties, especially those triggered by fanaticism or intense racial, ethnic, or political hatred.
Some shootings are motivated by Jihad and “home grown” Islamic radicalism. Others, perhaps the most odious, are the result of perverted political ideology and the increasing hatred boiling over from the atmosphere of racial and ethnic divisiveness and polarization of politics, largely created by the incitement of violence, directly or indirectly, by the political left and the propagandist media.
On May 14, 2022, Payton Gendron, an alleged “white supremacist,” shot and killed 10 people and injured three others at Tops Market in Buffalo, New York. The media has sensationalized this shooting not only to push for gun control but also because of the alleged “white supremacist” doing the shooting and the racial motivation behind it. Now we are learning that a former FBI agent knew of the gunman’s plan to commit mass murder, according to two law enforcement officials investigating the case.
According to the Buffalo News, the two law enforcement sources stated that at least six individuals had been communicating with the accused shooter in an online chat room and were invited by Gendron to read about his mass shooting plans and the target location about 30 minutes before the shooting. None of these individuals tipped the FBI to warn the agency prior to the shooting. No other information has been made available to the public from the two officials familiar with the investigation, the FBI, or the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Suffice to say, the FBI and the media propagandists have been heavily discussing racial hatred, the white supremacist shooter, and the fact the gunman used an AR-15. Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrat activist Beto O’ Rourke have already begun pushing for banning “assault weapons,” especially the AR-15, and in the case of O’Rourke, calling for outright confiscation of those who already possess them legally!
Nothing has been said about much bigger problems, such as the increased polarization of America since the time of the Obama administration and the incitement of violence by the Democrats and the media — for example, calling rioters “peaceful protestors” and justifying their criminal behavior, violence, looting and plundering, as reasonable social justice. In fact, these rioters advance the leftist agenda of promoting chaos that then the Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media can exploit as pretext to pass more laws that affect not the criminal elements in society but the law-abiding gun owners and business people; at the same time, the orchestrated riots provide plunder for the looters, while the public and businesses are not even protected!
Nor has the media explored and investigated their own politicization or that of the intelligence agencies, especially when it came to undermining the presidency of Donald Trump.
No president in American history has had to suffer the sustained and vociferous media attacks that the American print and electronic media launched against President Donald Trump, the legally elected president of the United States. Some media personalities and Democrat legislators even called openly for his assassination. Moreover, we now know that an attempted coup d’état was behind the intensive demonizing of the former president.
We also know that all resources available to the press were utilized for sustaining the constant barrage of negative propaganda, and that this could take place in our United States, a nation with a purportedly free and independent press, is unconscionable. And that a fifth column within the intelligence community, which had become corrupted and sympathized with President Barack Obama and detested President Trump, was also deeply involved is abominable.
These agencies, both the CIA under John Brennan and the FBI under James Comey that collaborated with Democrats as well as foreign powers to overthrow Trump’s presidency, have lost a lot of credibility with the American people, and that none of these intelligence players is serving time is another abomination.
Where are the objective and indomitable investigative journalists of the mainstream media that should have been investigating these momentous omissions, these gaps in our knowledge, in the study of criminal mass shooters? And when is the media finally going to admit that armed citizens in place could have stopped some of these mass murderers, and, at the very least, diminish the number of casualties?
Miguel A. Faria, Jr, MD is a retired professor of Neurosurgery and Medical History at Mercer University School of Medicine. He founded Hacienda Publishing and is Associate Editor in Chief in Neuropsychiatry and World Affairs of Surgical Neurology International. He served on the CDC’s Injury Research Grant Review Committee. His latest book is America, Guns, and Freedom: A Journey Into Politics and the Public Health & Gun Control Movements (2019).
Nothing has been said about much bigger problems, such as the increased polarization of America since the time of the Obama administration and the incitement of violence by the Democrats and the media —
Democrat Party’s actions that would have been universally condemned as criminal and even treasonous in the no so distant past are not only occurring on a regular basis, they are doing so to the applause of a sizeable number (though nowhere near a majority) of sick, twisted leftists, who no longer hide their malicious intent.
To fully advance the Lying, Treasonous, Demonic, Socialist Democrat Party’s destructive beliefs and agendas: is to divide our citizens with hate and promote – racism, open borders, radical feminism, abortion-on-demand, the LGBTQ lifestyle, unfettered sexual identity, transgender gay marriage, child indoctrination into sexual confusion and the like, the pagan Liberal left Democrats must do away with GOD, our Constitution, common sense, morality, Christian values and free religious exercise altogether.
(unless it is the Democrat Party Satanic demonic cult)
Under the Disguise of “anti-discrimination.”
This treasonous, Hateful, destructive, immoral, socialist Democrat Party and their corrupt, demented puppet president has become our country’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY!
AND as long as the left owns the media, nothing WILL be said about it.
It’s always Pure Unadulterated Hatred of the FAR FAR and FAR LEFT of the Democratic Socialist/Communist Party. STARTED by the One and Only PIG!OSI , SCHUMER , SCHIFF , NADLER , WATER’S and CHINA JOE’S. ” FAKE ” and Parasite Infested Administration.
Of the 4 last mass shooters only one was white.
A white Communist/ Socialist shot in a grocery store
A Chinese guy shot people in a church
A Hispanic guy shot kids in a school
A black guy shot a doctor in a hospital.
Only the white guy will be charged with a hate charge.
OF course, he’s white. ANY WHITE GUY shooting any minority, these days, gets a hate crime charge tacked on.
A result of calling Trump and his supporters “white supremacists” for the last 6 years, is some people have come to equate “white supremacism” with the Republican party. So when the media says so and so shooter showed an involvement in the white supremacy movement, they want people to reflexively think Trump and Republican, even though that link has never been established. It’s just another way the left has poisoned the discourse in this country to the lowest level.
The mass shooters/school shootings/mass casualty events are brought about by the MIXED/SELF SERVING MESSAGES of the left. Since guns have existed for centuries and mass shootings/school shooting haven’t it CAN’T BE THE GUNS ARE THE PROBLEM! SCOTUS created a ‘right to abortion’ and since abortion ends a life that has already begun when the sperm penetrates the egg it meets the definition of MURDER. Murder is illegal but if you call it abortion it’s legal, this situation devalues the sanctity of life. This sets up brain confusion and some stressed out individuals think it’s OK to kill those that stress you out. [Hundreds of children are MURDERED each day in the womb {a Racist act as the majority are minorities and it maintains white control of the Democratic party}, school shootings pale by comparison and are the natural consequence of ignoring God’s command DO NOT MURDER]
Add to that, even up till the early 90s, some areas HAD GUNS IN SCHOOLS< due to ROTC classes, or gun clubs, and NO MASS SHOOTINGS to my recollection..
SO WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN THEN AND NOW..
Oh yea, the left pushed their bull about 'its not your fault little darlings, Here's your participation trophies…"
I keep finding it interesting, if not infuriating, how every time there is a tragic shooting, be it a mass shooting/multi-murder, or for what ever reason a highly publicized shooting\murder, the Media in a single voice condemns first the NRA and the Right Wing White Supremacists Movement ( what ever that is) and Republicans in general.
And then a funny thing happens.
When, in the majority of such cases, the shooter turns out not to be Caucasian and/or a Liberal Democrat supporter, hmm, the story seems to just disappear, Abracadabra!
Or if it’s too big to ignore, further mention of race or political affiliation seems to completely disappear. Presto Chango!
Wow! It’s just like magic.
ALSO its funny how, when we start learning “THIS individual was known to be mental/Known to the authorities”, YET THEY STILL PASSED all the bloody backround checks, that NO ONE ever seems to get FIRED for gross incompetence or negligence..
Exactly!
Thing is, normally i am not a conspiracy nut. BUT THE SHEER # of times this sort of thing happens, and no one seems to ever get held to account, CERTAINLY MAKES SOME think there’s smoke…
the left is responsable for the violence,they have done everything to divide us to the point of killing.
the left are the ones soft on crime the left run cities are a killers play ground.
the scamdemic shutdown should have never happend in america the fed gubment is on the hook for the fiasco of
shortages and supply chain movement and paying people to stay home instead of working.
in my town they do not even enforce speeding even in a school zone, drug use and gangs have flourished under a democrat run city.
the more of what i see in america is not good we have left god and we are paying for it under liberals and commies.
i would say the end times are near the evil on this earth is like a tidal wave and most christians are silent.
i saw a an abortion march with women stabbing effigys of babys and fetuses if that aint evil what is?
the end time people are in charge my friends better get right with god cause time is short.