Stefan Molyneux: Political Correctness Killed The Florida School Shooting Victims, Not Guns

[Initech]

Stefan Molyneux, a video blogger popular with far-right and alt-right audiences, claimed that it was actually “political correctness” and not loose guns regulations that enabled the mass murder of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida last month.

In a video uploaded yesterday, Molyneux sought to break down what he believed to be “the ugly truth” about the March for Our Lives protests on Saturday, which attracted hundreds of thousands of people across the United States to stand with survivors of the shooting who demanded gun reform measures aimed at making schools safer.

“Now, of course, the proximate cause for all of this was the shooting in Broward County recently—the shooting of the children. And because there is an emotionally reactive group of people who either have never been exposed to the facts and the truth about that shooting, about guns as a whole, or simply have simply ignored it if they have been exposed to it, or they’re simply useful happy bleating idiots—the puppets of the puppet master—speaking out against the elemental freedoms of the United States,” Molyneux said.

“The fact is that it was not fundamentally a gun that killed those kids in the school in Florida. What killed those kids was political correctness,” he said. “What killed those kids was political correctness.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/stefan-molyneux-political-correctness-killed-the-florida-school-shooting-victims-not-guns/

[dameatball]

1. May I apply the first face palm to this dipshit?

[lpbk2713]

2. "Hey, look at me."

"I could be the next Limbaugh or Hannity."

[gratuitous]

9. That's how I read it, too

Reminds me of the old racist jokes about the old South. The sheriff pulls the body of a black man wrapped in chains from the bottom of a lake: "Ain't that just like them shiftless folk? Done stole more chains than he can swim away with."

[dameatball]

3. Generally, people who have been exposed to a shooting are "emotionally reactive." Why aren't you??

[oberliner]

4. What is the difference between far right and alt right?

[VOX]

6. Two letters.

Sorry.

[Angry Dragon]

5. When you are an idiot it is better to keep your mouth shut

[VOX]

7. Another phantom-enemy of the right wing.

Ever notice that ALL the right-wing’s enemies and threats are either FALSE or highly magnified, altered and re-contextualized?

They never speak the truth on any issue. Never.

[moondust]

8. I'm pretty sure it was aliens.

ALIENS!!!!!!!!!!

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Cruz is a far right bigot - was it really "political correctness" that allowed him a gun?

Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel described Cruz's online profiles and accounts as "very, very disturbing".[56] They contained pictures and posts of him with a variety of weapons, including long knives, a shotgun, a pistol, and a BB gun. Police said that he held "extremist" views; social media accounts that were thought to be linked to him contained anti-black and anti-Muslim slurs.[56] YouTube comments linked to him include "I wanna die Fighting[sic] killing shit ton of people", threats against police officers and Antifa, and intent to mimic the University of Texas tower shooting.[56][65][66] In February 2017, he legally purchased an AR-15 style rifle from a Coral Springs gun store. A year later, he used this weapon to commit the mass shooting at his former school.[67]

Items recovered by police at the scene included gun magazines with swastikas carved in them. One student reported that Cruz had drawn a swastika and the words "I hate n*****s" on his backpack.[68] CNN reported that Cruz was in a private Instagram group chat where he expressed racist, homophobic, antisemitic, and anti-immigrant (xenophobic) views. He said he wanted to kill gay people and Mexicans, and talked about keeping black people in chains. Cruz said he hated black people "simply because they were black," and Jewish people because he believed "they wanted to destroy the world." He also referred to white women in interracial relationships as traitors.[69]

A former classmate said Cruz had anger management issues and often joked about guns and gun violence, including shooting up establishments.[10] The brother of a 2016 graduate described him as "super stressed out all the time and talked about guns a lot and tried to hide his face". A student who was enrolled at the school at the time of the shooting said, "I think everyone had in their minds if anybody was going to do it, it was going to be him."[70] A classmate who was assigned to work with him in sophomore year said, "He told me how he got kicked out of two private schools. He was held back twice. He had aspirations to join the military. He enjoyed hunting."[56] He also bragged about killing animals, a student's mother said. A neighbor said his mother would call the police over to the house to try to talk some sense into him.[71]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneman_Douglas_High_School_shooting

And yet, somehow, Molyneux concludes:

Molyneux went on to explain that he believes that concerns over “disparities in arrest records for different racial groups” and the public’s unwillingness to address “root causes” explaining why people of color are arrested more frequently led people to falsely blame “white racism” for these disparities. Molyneux said that efforts to curb the “school-to-prison pipeline” aimed at reducing the number of students—particularly those from minority communities—funneled into the criminal justice system stood in the way of law enforcement imprisoning the shooter in Florida before he could carry out his mass murder.

“It was not the gun who did it. It was political correctness and the quota system and the exclusion from the rule of law of particular minorities. And this is to some degree the ‘Ferguson effect,’ but this is the reality,” Molyneux said.

So Molyneux claims Cruz had done things for which he should have been arrested, before the massacre. Since his behaviour seems to have been that of the far right, is Molyneux complaining that the police aren't locking up enough of his fans for their views?