Start of a new week but the same old predictable knee-jerk reactions from the progressive Left over another mass shooting, this time in Monterey Park, California on Saturday.
A gunman killed 10 people and injured 10 others at a Southern California ballroom dance studio Saturday amid Lunar New Year celebrations.
Twenty to 30 minutes later, a man with a gun entered the Lai Lai Ballroom in nearby Alhambra but patrons wrestled the gun away from him, and he fled, authorities said.
Despite police not releasing the suspect’s identity or race, some liberals on Twitter were quick to pin the horror on white supremacy and anti-Asian hate before all the facts were known.
The usual suspects of course, including Chuckie Schumer and Adam Schiff-for-Brains, two of the most morally corrupt politicians in our government. They immediately pinned the blame on “bigotry” without knowing the identity or race of the suspect.
They are “heartbroken” and “sickened.” I’d believe that if they actually had a heart.
This is the Left: move immediately to “take the high ground” of condemnation by being the first out with a comment and imply that some kind of “hate crime” (is there any other kind?) has taken place. “With bigotry toward AAPI individuals as a possible motive” hedges Schiffty-Schiff, while Schumer goes full frontal with his assertion that, “We must stand up to bigotry and hate wherever they rear their ugly heads.”
Let me ask you something: if both of them raise the specter of “bigotry” and “hate,” who do you think they are implying does the bigotry and hating?
Here’s Francesca Hong to tell us:
Ah, yes, the bogeyman of “white supremacy” who “reign terror” or something.
Is this really so surprising when you think about the FBI, DOJ and what’s left of Brandon’s brain constantly telling us that the greatest threat in the United States is domestic terror and white supremacy?
No. No, it doesn’t.
But the joke’s on them. The suspected shooter turns out to be an elderly Asian man.
The driver of a white van who is the suspected shooter in Saturday’s Monterey Park mass shooting has been found dead from an alleged self-inflicted gunshot wound after being cornered by authorities in Torrance on Sunday.
Police sandwiched the driver and van with tactical vehicles and bomb squad trucks after pursuing the driver into a shopping center and hearing a gunshot from inside the van, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said in an update on Sunday evening.
After awaiting further support from SWAT, officers then moved in on the van to find one driver deceased, slumped over the steering wheel.
Authorities identified the suspect as 72-year-old Huu Can Tran.
So why do Schumer and Schiff jump to conclusions that make them look like the idiots they are? Because they are committed to a narrative that informs how they see the world, and they make their assumptions accordingly. Unfortunately, the narrative they love isn’t supported by the evidence.
Black on Asian violence has long been a problem. After listing several examples in an article about this pattern of violence, Heather MacDonald writes,
In fact, the suspects in all of these cases were black; the news reports rarely mentioned that detail. Had the suspects been white, their race would have led each news report, as it did for Robert Aaron Long. A former member of the Oakland police department’s robbery undercover suppression team tells me that this racial pattern of attack and its lack of coverage is longstanding. No one cares about Asian robbery victims, he says, “We used to follow around elderly Asians, waiting for the bad guys to start circling. This has been one of my long-term frustrations. They are pretending to care now but ironically blaming it on white supremacy”—even though the suspects in Asian robbery attacks are almost exclusively, in this cop’s experience, black.
It’s unreasonable to think that whites never commit any crimes against blacks or Asians. But it’s just as unreasonable to think that whites are the majority of perpetrators of such crimes. There’s just no evidence of it.
But that doesn’t stop the likes of Schumer, Schiff or any other Leftist from immediately pivoting to such lies when an opportunity presents itself.