In a scripted layup question for Joe Bidenâs press secretary, ABC News reporter Cecilia Vega asked Jen âCircle Backâ Psaki about the surge in violence over the last year: âA look back over the weekend and over the last year. This past weekend, there were more than a dozen mass shooting across this country â 4,000 more people shot and killed by guns in 2020 compared to the year before. Is there a crime problem in this country?â
âShot and killed by guns,â not the violent offenders using guns and other weapons to kill.
For the record, the FBI, which maintains national homicide and assault data, has no definition for âmass shootingâ â and the Left is as loose with those words as it is with âassault weapon.â But there were 12 assaults this past weekend resulting in 11 deaths and 69 injuries â the vast majority of which were gang and drug related. And the unofficial homicide rate for 2020 may have surged 25% over 2019.
You may have heard⦠On January 6, 2021, there was an âinsurrectionâ in the Capitol building â apparently a much more egregious assault on that building than that inflicted when the British visited in 1814.
Predictably, as a final chapter of Trump Derangement Syndrome while he was still in office, Demo Rep. Nancy Pelosi and her Senate sidekick, Chuck Schumer, immediately seized on the riot as theatrical fodder for the 2022 midterm elections.
Letâs review.
On that unfortunate January day, after former President Donald Trump held a rally down the road, some outlying miscreants at that rally, spurred on by conspiracy theory luminaries such as InfoWars chief Alex Jones and others, unlawfully entered the Capitol building to disrupt the Electoral College process. A few of those protesters disgracefully attacked police, but most trespassed in the building without causing harm or damage.
âAll men having power ought to be distrustedâ¦â âJames Madison (1787)
Back in 1992, Bill Clintonâs âRaginâ Cajunâ campaign adviser, James Carville, sharply focused Clintonâs campaign message on the economy with a single mantra, which the Democrat Partyâsmass media publicists dutifully repeated ad nauseam: âItâs the economy, stupid!â
This single, simple message ensured that George H.W. Bushâs reelection bid would fail.
Today, given the mass confusion over how businesses, schools, and other institutions should endeavor to reopen after the devastating ineffective lockdowns, the focus is quickly shifting to litigation and liability â the most menacing obstacle to the return of social normalcy. Many organizations are endeavoring to cover their backsides by complying with the CDC guidelines to avoid liability. But the CDC has been about as clear as mud on those recommendations, particularly in regard to its pseud