Recent mass shootings show only certain shootings are of interest to liberals.
Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?
Holmes: To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
Gregory: The dog did nothing in the night-time.
Holmes: That was the curious incident.
Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Gregory, Silver Blaze, by Sir Author Conan Doyle.
On Sunday February 11th, I was driving home from work around 200pm and noticed two Harris County Sheriff’s Office patrol cars “running hot,” i.e.,lights, sirens, etc. I didn’t pay it much attention, it’s a not uncommon event in Houston TX.
A minute later I noticed a third car running hot. Then a fourth. I assumed it was serious, like a unit “dropping an assist.” The call “Assist the Officer” means an officer is in danger and requires immediate backup. That was an understatement.
An active shooter call dropped at Joel Osteen’s mega-church, Lakewood. The attack occurred just as the church was starting their Spanish service and the shooter was armed with a “rifle.” Fortunately two cops working off duty security at the church immediately engaged and terminated the suspect.
During the Super Bowl I checked on updates to the shooting and the POS was described as a “transgender female” using a “rifle” for the attack, while holding a 4–5-year-old child. In speaking with an officer on the scene, the POS (I will not mention its name, for multiple reasons, more to come) was using the child as a human shield. Unfortunately, the boy (the POS’s child) was hit and is in critical condition. However, thanks to the quick work of the two cops on the scene, the POS only shot one man in the leg and he should make a full recovery.
Again, I find it curious that a mass shooting, in Texas, by using an “assault rifle” has not made a bigger splash in the news. During the Super Bowl I checked the local channels and understandably they were updating as news became available. I checked my NY Times emails from Sunday afternoon and did not see a “breaking news” alert on an active shooter in Houston. I reviewed their emails from Monday and it showed nothing.
I did text AFNN Managing Editor Mike Ford the next day and ask if he heard of an active shooter in Houston. He did not, and Mike does keep his nose into current events.
The NY Times did have a decent summary on Tuesday 2/13/24, including the shooter putting ”’Palestine” on the rifle, but nothing on the shooter being a ”transgender.” They did update their report on Wednesday 2/14/24, questioning how a mentally disturbed “woman” who had been involuntarily committed for phycological evaluation could purchase a firearm. But something was missing. The shooter was a ”transgender”
From the latest, the shooter is a biological female who “transitioned” to male, and apparently decided to go back to being a female (this is subject to change without notice). There are multiple reports referencing the shooters mental issues. Fair enough. But dare I say it, the fact the shooter is a “trans” is a mental issue. From Psychology Today:
Individuals who identify as transgender tend to experience higher rates of mental health issues than the general population. While approximately 6.7 percent of the general U.S. population suffers from depression and 18 percent grapple with some iteration of an anxiety disorder, nearly half of all individuals who identify as transgender experience these issues. What’s more, over 41 percent of trans men and women are estimated to have attempted suicide — a rate that’s nearly nine times as high as the rate of cisgender Americans.
I have no doubt if this shooter had a MAGA hat on or attended a Trump rally every network would have covered it continually, there would be updates during the Super Bowl, and it would be front, center and above the fold on page one of every paper in the country.
Exaggeration? I don’t think so. Remember in March 2023, a “transgender male” entered The Covenant School, murdered three children and three adults before being killed by responding officers. Almost immediately reports of the shooters manifesto surfaced, but authorities were against releasing it. If a trial was pending, that would be understandable, it would be part of the prosecution. As the shooter was dead, there is no custodial interview conducted. But it was fortunately leaked and showed a lot of motive. Politically incorrect motive.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TND) — Portions of the manifesto belonging to Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale are circulating social media after months of debate regarding its release.
Steven Crowder, the host of the Louder with Crowder talk show, shared leaked images from the manifesto Monday morning. The pages released by Crowder allegedly reveal the intentions behind Hale’s deadly attack.
Wanna kill all you little c*******,” one page from the manifesto reads. “Bunch of little f****** w/ your white privlages f*** you f******…”
… Hale’s manifesto includes an hour-by-hour calendar of the tragic day, which Hale called “Death Day,” including everything from “getting dressed” and “eat breakfast” to “prepare for attack” and “time 2 die.”
I’m a little nervous, but excited too. Been excited for the past 2 weeks,” Hale allegedly wrote. “Can’t believe I’m doing this, but I’m ready… I hope my victims aren’t.”
In the week since the Lakewood shooting, I have also not heard from President Biden, his VP, or any other member of the DC Establishment on this matter (the local federal agencies are very involved with the investigation). I doubt we will. The facts don’t fit the template.
On Tuesday, February 14, there was an active shooter in Kansas City, as the city celebrated the Chiefs victory in the Super Bowl. Within minutes the usual libtards were chanting, “It’s the guns!”, not the people on X, Facebook, etc. Then some more information came out.
The shooters were two teenagers who had a some “issues” with other attendees at the parade. I’ll speculate the law being teenagers cannot possess pistols means the suspects illegally obtained the weapons, by stealing them or obtaining them through gang membership. So they were not obtained at a gun show the weekend before? Who would think that?
As I type this on Sunday, February 18, two teenage shooters have been detained and charges with gun related and resisting arrest charges. But I haven’s noticed the president or any other liberal come out about either of these two shootings. Could it be that neither fit the template the Biden’s et all are pushing? Federal law enforcement has for the last three years put out propaganda that the greatest internal threat in America is the Klan and right-wing zealots, not the gangs members in the cities or the mentally ill (see “transgenders”).
I doubt this will be covered much. The Nashville shooting has dropped off the face of the earth, as will Houston and Kansas City. And any other shooting that doesn’t fit a liberal template will also drop off the liberal media cycle within hours. That is another media template.
This column is an update from a February 14, 2024 post on A Cop’s Watch.
Michael A. Thiac is a retired Army intelligence officer, with over 23 years experience, including serving in the Republic of Korea, Japan, and the Middle East. He is also a retired police patrol sergeant, with over 22 years’ service, and over ten year’s experience in field training of newly assigned officers. He has been published at The American Thinker, PoliceOne.com, and on his personal blog, A Cop’s Watch.
Opinions expressed are his alone and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of current or former employers.
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