First Person Shooter

Twitter is such a depressing place when there is a well-publicized shooting. Everybody has their agenda, and it never includes consideration for the people who've had a huge hole blown through their lives. Her name was Allison Parker. His name was Adam Ward. I have wanted to leave this story alone out of respect for them, but I cannot continue to hold my tongue.

All anyone on the left wants to talk about was how we need more gun control, background checks, waiting periods, what have you. The man who purchased the gun used to attack Parker and Ward, passed a background check. Many on the left are advocating for repeal of the Second Amendment, and confiscation of all firearms. We can't deport ten million illegal aliens, but we can confiscate 300 million firearms?

So it's rational to pay attention to the man who pulled the trigger. I can't get the image on the front page of the New York Daily News out of my head. There are three frames; the first frame has the Glock in the foreground, and the weapon is being trained on Allison Parker. This is from video that the murderer himself took, and uploaded to social media. The second frame shows the muzzle flash, and the third image shows Parker cringing in reaction to the gunfire. Now that I've heard the audio, not by choice I might add, now that I've heard her shrieks, I can imagine what the last moments of her life were like. I'm too empathetic to carry such a burden, and her life deserves more dignity than that.

The murderer admitted that he was motivated by racial animus. "I put down a deposit for a gun on 6/19/15. The Church shooting in Charleston happened on 6/17/15..." In this way, the Charleston shooting and the Roanoke shooting are forever, inextricably linked.

Whatever depths of evil both men lived in, they were surely at opposite ends of the progressive stack. A gay black male occupies the highest position on the progressive stack that is statistically likely to commit murder, save trans. There are protected classes with higher status, but they are all female and statistically unlikely to commit such a crime.

There is not much disputing the theory that the Roanoke killer felt a sense of victimization. "Yes, it will sound like I am angry," he wrote in his manifesto. "I am. And I have every right to be."

It would appear that Sally Kohn agrees that the killer's rage was justified.

was mentally unstable AND appears to acted out of sense of victimization i have no reason to believe not justified https://t.co/XPbtw36AM7

— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) August 27, 2015

It can't be easy to be Sally Kohn. The killer had a rainbow flag in his domicile. There are comparisons to the confederate flag, because many say that the Charleston murderer was inspired by the symbol. Both killers had a malignant sense of alienation.

The Roanoke killer believed he was singled out for abuse because he was a gay black man. His alienation was fed and nurtured by people like Sally Kohn, who always play the victim card. And the next one is already justified, because there is no gay to see here, no racism to see here, move along, crazy guy shouldn't have been able to get a gun, so it goes.

The final point I want to make is about Sally Kohn's tweet about the rainbow flag.

Come on!?! The pride flag is about love and inclusion. The confederate flag is about hate and exclusion. https://t.co/ANKHxfb1ZU

— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) August 27, 2015

Love and inclusion? Maybe. Also a sense of grievance, and an impulse toward thought totalitarianism. Everybody must love and include homosexuals, or else. The rainbow sticker displayed on a brick-and-mortar establishment is like protection from the gay mafia, a talisman against the rage of the perpetual victim.