Proof positive that people only see what they want to see...

The Violence Could Get Much Worse

Unless police and political leaders begin to crack down on the armed vigilantes monitoring protests, more bloodshed could soon follow the killings in Kenosha.

The killings in Kenosha, Wisconsin, represent an alarming escalation of the fight over police violence that has consumed the country this summer: It wasn’t an agent of the state who shot two Americans dead this week. Instead, an American man turned his weapon on other civilians during a protest—and law enforcement let him walk right by them and out of town. Police and political leaders have failed for years to take the actions necessary to prevent this kind of violence. Without serious, sustained intervention, more bloodshed could soon follow.

So for the past three to four months we have seen rioting to the degree that we have never seen before. Literally billions of dollars worth of property (both public and private) has been destroyed, hundreds if not thousands of people have been injured, and several have been killed since the rioting began.

Every time a business is looted, burned down, or otherwise destroyed... American citizens see their livelihoods altered. For some, it might just be that business that they depended on that is no longer there. For some, it might be that their place of employment was destroyed leaving them without the means to support their families. For other business owners, their personal livelihoods have been forever altered. In some cases generations of blood, sweat, and tears went up in flames literally overnight.

Recently, many of these rioters have been pushing their way into residential areas, literally putting the lives of families, children, and average everyday Americans in peril.

But this particular author sees none of this. Literally sees no problems with the rioting, the violence, the senseless destruction. The problem (as she sees it) is the fact that the very citizens who are the victims of this particular type of violence (which is to say everyone not rioting) are deciding to stand up to these bullies and fight back.

So there must be a "crack down" from the police on these recent activities. Not the burning down of buildings, the looting of the stores, the senseless beatings of random people who are in the wrong place at the wrong time. All of that is fine and dandy. Rather the police apparently must crack down on anyone carrying a gun who happens to be protecting something rather than destroying something.

The oddest thing to me is that this person literally writes this down for everyone to read and apparently doesn't' feel the least bit out of touch, hypocritical, or otherwise embarrassed by such a dangerously irresponsible viewpoint.