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May 11, 2015

Garland: The Aftermath But Not "The End"

Okay, this was the plan...

Er... uh... excuse me, but....

An aerial view shows the car that was used the previous night by two gunmen, who were killed by police, as it is investigated by local police and the FBI in Garland, Texas, on May 4, 2015. Texas police shot dead two gunmen who opened fire on Sunday outside an exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad... Photos of the Week: 5/2-5/8 - The Atlantic

Mark Steyn Online

It'll be a long time before you see "Washington Post Offers No Apology for Attacking Target of Thwarted Attack" or "AP Says It Has No Regrets After Blaming The Victim". The respectable class in the American media share the same goal as the Islamic fanatics: They want to silence Pam Geller. To be sure, they have a mild disagreement about the means to that end - although even then you get the feeling, as with Garry Trudeau and those dozens of PEN novelists' reaction to Charlie Hebdo, that the "narrative" wouldn't change very much if the jihad boys had got luckier and Pam, Geert Wilders, Robert Spencer and a dozen others were all piled up in the Garland morgue.

If the American press were not so lazy and parochial, they would understand that this was the third Islamic attack on free speech this year - first, Charlie Hebdo in Paris; second, the Lars Vilks event in Copenhagen; and now Texas. The difference in the corpse count is easily explained by a look at the video of the Paris gunmen, or the bullet holes they put in the police car. The French and Texan attackers supposedly had the same kind of weapons, although one should always treat American media reports with a high degree of skepticism when it comes to early identification of "assault weapons" and "AK47s". Nonetheless, from this reconstruction, it seems clear that the key distinction between the two attacks is that in Paris they knew how to use their guns and in Garland they didn't. So a very cool 60-year-old local cop with nothing but his service pistol advanced under fire and took down two guys whose heavier firepower managed only to put a bullet in an unarmed security guard's foot.

Posted by gerardvanderleun at May 11, 2015 1:52 PM

First off: Twitter can suck it! No one of sound mind supports you in relaying terrorist messages.

Second: Gerard, you are fighting the good fight and I'm out here applauding you. I read here daily and this is the nexus for online parody and it keeps more people straight than you can possibly know. Keep it up!

Third: Texas! Proof positive that you do not bring your JiyWad silliness to a serious gun fight.

Posted by: Casey Klahn at May 11, 2015 5:57 PM

This outcome was probably caused by the same effect that a couple of Iraqi vets I know have cited for their survival:
"Inshallah" - the fatalism built into Islamic culture by the concept "If Allah wills it".
Point the gun in the general direction of the foe and pull the trigger. Don't need to aim, God's on your side.

Both guys said they worried about IEDs, not getting shot. One described being shot at by a guy who, to quote the teller, was "holding a 20 foot group".

Posted by: bud at May 12, 2015 12:56 PM

Mess with the bull, get the horn, Hajji.

Attention ISIS: bring it on. This is not some soft-ass, pacifistic Unitarian wonderland, nor is this France. This is Texas. We know exactly what to do with varmints like you. We've been putting chicken-stealing little vermin like you in lonely cold holes in the ground for five hundred years.

The national bird of Texas is the mockingbird, mimus polyglottos. The mockingbird is a beautiful and beneficial creature, an eater of pests, a guardian of nests, and the most beautiful singer of all birds. Admired from a respectful distance, the mockingbird is a living symbol of tranquility and natural beauty.

But approach a mockingbird with impunity, or threaten its territory, nest, eggs, or young, and this small symbol of beauty becomes a flying chainsaw -- a feathered, airborne ball of claw and beak and beating wings. Fearless in defense of its own, the mockingbird can and will take on any creature it deems a threat. If you do not believe that a two-ounce mockingbird can drive off three and one-half pounds of red-tailed hawk or sixty pounds of bobcat, just come to Texas and you will see that it can. From hawk to human being, the mockingbird fears nothing.

Yet this fierce creature is not a bird of prey. It devours seeds, small fruit, and of course many, many pests, but it does not hunt for prey. It merely defends its own.

There's a reason we Texans chose the mockingbird as our symbol. Like the mockingbird, we are devoted to nest and offspring, and we will take on -- and take down -- anyone who we feel poses a threat to same.

So the next time one of you Jihad Jockeys thinks about shooting or blowing up a bunch of Texans, consider the mockingbird -- and go be a murderous, degenerate bastard somewhere else.

لا تعبث مع تكساس.

Posted by: B Lewis at May 12, 2015 11:01 PM

ghost, that's a harsh call on that cop. "... That giant blob of shit in a camo'd halloween costume ..."

Take a closer look, that ain't fat. that's seventy pounds of equipment and body armor and he's been on his feet all day, ready to get shot at, perhaps killed.
That's his job. He is not an idealist, going out there to face Evil forces. He's a working man. Just like the off-duty cop that capped the bad guys. I sure don't think of him as Jackbooted.

C'mon, you talk like you have had some really bad experiences with law enforcement.
Be interesting to hear about them.

Posted by: chasmatic at May 13, 2015 12:02 AM

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