Lefty Video Game Demeans Gun Supporters; Ignores Real Solutions for Violence

Nothing makes liberals happier than bragging about their imagined moral superiority to conservatives, no matter the facts. And a new left-wing computer game is making waves doing just that, exploiting the recent shooting in Orlando, Florida to push gun control.

Thoughts and Prayers: The Game is a 30-second-long game playable in your browser for free. It shows a map of the United States, with targets and death tolls popping up all over it to represent recent mass shootings.

The message is obvious: conservatives and Republicans offer victims of gun violence nothing but ineffective sentiments, while refusing to consider the one policy that would actually save lives. However, as usual, none of the facts back up the condescension on display.

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First, the game’s solution wouldn’t have prevented the Orlando massacre, either. What liberals mean by “assault weapon” is nothing more than a gun with any number of cosmetic differences, like detachable magazines or collapsible stocks, that don’t actually make the gun any more dangerous than a hunting rifle. Many specifically called for banning the AR-15, even though gunman Omar Mateen didn’t actually use one.

Second, since the shooting, conservatives have been talking nonstop about all the thingsin addition tothoughts and prayers we should be doing to prevent tragedies like this, and nearly everybody who’s been promoting this game knows it.

Our proposals include:

• Barring violence-prone fanatics from entering the country in the first place. Mateen may have been an American citizen, but as Donald Trump pointed out, “the only reason the killer was in America in the first place was because we allowed his family to come here” from Afghanistan. New information about his father’s radicalism seems to be coming out every day.
• Giving the coworkers of violence-prone fanatics confidence that they can report warning signs without fear of getting fired or sued for discrimination. Mateen is just the latest in a string of Islamic fanatics who displayed violent, radical tendencies on multiple occasions…that were dismissed under the “Islamophobia” excuse.
• Staffing our law enforcement and security agencies with people who will actually follow up when violence-prone fanatics appear on their radar, rather than forget about them. The FBI investigated Mateen. He was on the terror watch list, and removed. Gun shops do a good job of denying guns to people with violent histories…but can’t if they government doesn’t do its job of knowing who’s violent.
• Reforming laws and regulations that leave mentally disturbed individuals on the streets despite still posing a threat to society. James Holmes, Jared Loughner, Adam Lanza, and Seung-Hui Cho all had histories of mental illness that authorities didn’t take seriously enough in the years before their killing sprees.
• Reversing the gun-free zone policies that advertise where violence-prone fanatics can expect large numbers of defenseless victims. The correlation between mass shootings and gun-free zones is shocking. Multiple perpetrators expressly picked their targets based on whether the victims were likely to be armed.
• Enabling more law-abiding citizens to stop violence-prone fanatics. Mark Bando, the father of Orlando victim Christopher Leinonen, says he wishes his son had been armed:

Drew and his signifiant [sic] other Juan were both killed and I hope my son was taken quickly and without suffering. I hate to imagine some of the victims being terrorized for hours, because this armed killer was allowed to play God and exterminate them at will and in his own time schedule.

The killer was armed and his helpless victims were not, yet the anti gun politicians still want to disarm the populace, enabling these scenarios. It is likely such attacks will continue, until the victims start shooting back. That’s the lesson I take from this, for what it’s worth. When the shooting started Saturday night, I’ll bet there wasn’t a person in the club who wouldn’t have traded everything he owned in the world, for a loaded gun.

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If liberals were willing to discuss any of the above, we might actually prevent America’s next mass shooting. Unfortunately, they aren’t interested in anything but disarming the public and demonizing anyone who resists. It’s another reminder that those who brag the most about their character usually have the least to brag about.