The first weekend of August was marked in the United States by two mass executions in Texas and Ohio and by hunting people on the streets of Chicago.
In less than one day, more than 30 people were killed and dozens wounded in three cities of the country. That is, the national statistics will certainly be much more impressive, but here we are talking about just three incidents.
At 10:39 on Saturday in El Paso, Texas, dressed in black and armed with an automatic rifle, Patrick Wood Cruzius (21) opened fire on visitors to a Walmart supermarket. Killed 21 people, more than 20 injured. As it turned out later, in the supermarket at that moment there was not a single security guard, but the police officers, who quickly arrived at the shooting site, neutralized and detained Krusius. Half an hour before the jailing, Cruzius posted a manifesto on the 8shan image board, which called for an answer to the "invasion" of Hispanic immigrants in Texas and to protect the country from cultural and ethnic substitution.
After 14 hours, at one in the morning, in the city of Dayton, Ohio, Connor Betts college student (24 years old), also dressed in all black, opened fire from a semi-automatic rifle at the Ned Peppers bar, where he arrived with his sister Megan. Nine people died, including the shooter's sister, and at least 27 were injured. For a minute Betts managed to make about 50 shots, after which he was eliminated by heavy fire that six policemen opened at him - he did not even save the body armor that the student prudently put on under a black jacket.
Around the same time, in Chicago, an unknown man opened fire from a black Chevrolet Camaro window at a company gathered in the middle of the night at a playground in a city park. Seven people were injured, however, by a lucky chance, no one was killed. This circumstance does not allow calling the Chicago hunt for people mass murder (mass shooting), because, by American standards, shooting refers to such killings, as a result of which at least four people are killed in one place, excluding the criminal. But here it is worth noting that the data of various media about mass executions in the United States diverge by an order of magnitude.
So, according to the dossier kept by the Associated Press and USA Today, jokes in El Paso and Dayton are “only” the 21st and 22nd massacres since the beginning of the year. But, according to another database, where incidents like Chicago are introduced, more than 250 (!) Shootings took place in the USA during this time, in each of which at least four people were killed or wounded. By the way, according to NBC Chicago, five people were killed and more than 40 wounded during this weekend in Chicago - though, all in different places in the city. There is no direct connection between all three incidents, but in at least two out of three cases the culprit was found immediately.
It is easy to guess that in the conditions of the almost total dominance of the liberal media, this culprit was appointed by none other than US President Donald Trump.
For the ardent opponent of Trump, who is about to challenge him during the presidential campaign - 2020, Beto O'Rourke shooting in El Paso was an unexpected gift.
The fact is that Robert Francis O'Rourke, who, in an effort to please his Hispanic voters, has long referred to himself simply as Beto, was born in El Paso in the family of a city judge. And his political career is closely connected with this city.
It was here that he challenged the Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz and brilliantly lost to him (proving that in Texas white advocates of traditional values still prevail over Hispanic migrants and their Democratic backers). But, having lost, O'Rourke, according to the Politico website, from a moderate congressman turned into a liberal hero.
And this hero of the liberal camp interrupted his campaign in the United States, returned to El Paso on Sunday, and attacked Trump on CNN.
“Let’s explain very clearly what is the reason for this (joking) and who the president is. He is an open, universally recognized racist, contributing to the increase of racism in this country. "
Trump's sins, according to O'Rourke, are that he “does not even pretend to respect our differences, and does not understand that we are all created equal. He says that some people are initially inferior. ”
Another Democratic politician intending to run for president, New York Senator Corey Booker, has directly blamed Trump for shooting at El Paso and Dayton. “When you have a president, the highest moral authority in our country, who talks about intrusions and invasions from“ stinky holes ”(shithole countries), about things that ... so harm the moral spirit of our people, he is responsible,” he said Booker. “He’s responsible because he took no action to denounce the superiority of the white race, even when his own FBI spoke of this as the source of our main problems,” Booker added, referring to information from the FBI Director Christopher Ray that the majority Domestic terrorism cases in 2019 were linked to “white racists”.
And one more, the most “advanced” Democratic candidate participating in the race to the White House, the mayor of South Bend (Indiana) Pete Buttigic, also blamed all the blame for the weekend's shootings for “white nationalist terrorism”. “There is no doubt that at the highest level of our government they turn a blind eye to manifestations of white nationalism.”
However, there is a significant difference between juggling in El Paso and Dayton. Patrick Crucius, who shot Walmart visitors, is indeed a supporter of white Suprematism, who thus decided to protect his country from the invasion of foreigners. But the shooter from Dayton, Connor Betts, was an ardent leftist who was going to vote for Elizabeth Warren (another candidate from the Democratic Party who was “famous” for trumping her allegedly Indian origin - however, a DNA test showed that she could be considered the heir to the indigenous of the peoples of America, at best, by 1/64, and at worst, by 1/1024, in connection with which Trump began to call her Pocahontas in his usual manner), and a supporter of socialism.
Another Betts idol was Bernie Sanders, and from the records on his Twitter it follows that he supported the antifa movement and worshiped Satan.
He obviously did not like Trump (his Twitter account contains a laconic entry about Trump’s victory in the 2016 election: “This is bad”), and he called his immigration policy the revival of concentration camps.
Obviously, to “fasten” such a character to the idea of superiority of the white race, and even more so to make him a supporter who shares the “racist views” of the president, is very difficult - and this is why the personality of the murdered Betts is paid much less attention to than the living Krusius.
But even Krusius’s enemies of Trump (at least those who still have some notion of honesty) are not able to be recorded as followers of the White House owner.
Former FBI Director James Komi, who cannot be called a friend of the president, writes in his column in The New York Times (albeit almost at the very end): "A Texas terrorist who killed at least 20 people in El Paso, according to the" manifesto ascribed to him "Was not directly motivated by Donald Trump."
But be that as it may, for the president of the United States the tragic events of this weekend were a serious test, and not only moral, but also political.
“We cannot let those who died in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio die in vain,” he wrote on his Twitter. - We can never forget them, as well as those who were before them. Republicans and Democrats should come together and do a thorough fact-checking, perhaps by combining this legislation with the immigration reform that we desperately need. From these two tragic events we must learn something good, and maybe even GREAT. ”
By "this legislation," Trump most likely refers to the reform of the arms control system. And this is a very painful question for him.
Once (in the 1990s and early 2000s), Trump supported the idea of banning the sale of military weapons, especially assault rifles, which, allowing you to shoot in bursts and create a high density of fire, are the favorite weapon of shooters. He even supported Obama's call for tighter controls on arms sales after a massacre at a Connecticut school that killed 27 people.
But, having entered the presidential race, he changed his views. Trump emphasized several times that he often carries weapons, and called the idea of creating weapons-free zones (that is, places where carrying weapons would be prohibited - schools, churches, etc.) a catastrophe, since it would turn these zones into an attractive target for psychopaths. After the terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015, he said that if the French had the same right to carry weapons as the Americans, there would be much less casualties, and added that he himself would open fire on terrorists if he were in the theater “ Bataklan "during the attack.
All this contributed to the fact that in May 2016 the U.S. National Rifle Association, representing the powerful arms lobby, officially supported Trump in the presidential race (and spent more than $ 30 million on various election events).
True, becoming president, Trump once went against the NSA: after firing at a nightclub in Orlando, he recognized the need to impose restrictions on the purchase of weapons. But, perhaps, he did this for the sake of reason, since then things did not go further than statements.
It is not clear whether it will go now. Trump has a new presidential campaign on his nose, and quarreling with a powerful ally is completely out of his hand. On the other hand, inaction against the backdrop of the Democrat-wide massacre campaign blown up by the Democrats will also lead to a loss of points.
Therefore, some steps are likely to be taken. So far, Trump has promised that the authorities will “tackle this problem,” emphasizing that mass shootings in the US have been going on for “years” and that “we must stop them.” He himself believes that all the shooters are “seriously mentally ill people” and the root of evil is that weapons fall into the hands of psychos and madmen.
However, on Monday, on Trump’s twitter, another very interesting post appeared: “The media have a huge responsibility for life and security in our country. For anger and rage, accumulated over the years, fake news is largely responsible. News coverage should be fair, balanced and impartial, otherwise these terrible problems will only get worse! ”
And it’s hard to disagree. Whatever the specific motives of the shooters who made jokes in El Paso, Dayton and hunt people in Chicago, the main reason for what happened is the atmosphere of hatred, for the creation of which the Americans should “thank” the liberal media and the Democratic Party, who did not put up with the victory in 2016 the “wrong” candidate. For four years, the United States has been living in a state of “cold civil war,” which is increasingly turning into a hot war. True, so far only locally, in the form of juggling. But for now.
The author’s point of view may not coincide with the position of the publisher.