Soap Box

The unprecedented tragedy that took place at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida over the weekend will play out in hyperbole and journalistic spin in the next few weeks, as America tries to figure out what happened, why and how best to prevent it again.

I'm sure that the fact that it took place in a gay club will be dissected and exploited and, in some cases, put forth as the prime motive for Omar Mateen's demonic rampage, his homophobia supposedly pushing him over the edge.

The main point mustn't be missed here; the major motivating factor behind the attack is that gay or straight, they were Americans, it could have been a synagogue, a Christian church, a beauty pageant or any number of gatherings that sets off the bells and whistles in a radical Muslim's hate-filled psyche.

Because when you start numbering the dislikes and phobias radical Islam holds against America, collectively they roundly condemn the whole American way of life and question our very right to exist on the same planet as them.

Unfortunately, the massacre in Orlando is a harbinger of things to come and is the advent of the new terrorism, at least new to America. France, Belgium, Spain, Israel and other countries are no stranger to it, where a small group or a lone gunman walks into a crowded space and sets off an explosive device or pulls out an automatic weapon and starts blasting away.

Our president and his gaggle of cloistered eggheads are still trying to hold on to the premise that calling the terrorists what they are, radical Islamic terrorists, would insult the world's Muslim population, or at least that's what they claim.

Whatever the reason, this president has a soft spot with anything to do with Islam and has refused to take the necessary steps to rid the world of this vermin overseas and at home.

He allows porous borders, sanctuary cities, turns the world's most murderous terrorists out of Guantanamo Bay to return to the battlefield, refuses to allow even the tacit profiling of the kind of people most likely to kill Americans.

He takes advice from a cadre of academics who believe you can defeat terrorism with kindness, political correctness and semantics.

The finest military minds on the planet sit a few miles away across the Potomac with decades of experience in the art of war, covert and otherwise, who command the finest special forces troops in the world, troops, when properly equipped and given the latitude such a task would require, could go among the enemy, grind them to dust, bit by bit.

There are men and women in our federal agencies who would like nothing better than having the parameters widened to the point of being able to go where they need to go and do what they need to do to eradicate the terrorists among us.

Usually, the first thing out of the president's mouth after a terror incident in America is something about there being too many guns on the street, not too many terrorists in the country. Mateen should never have been able to buy a gun anyway as he had been on the FBI's radar for years.

Obama and his ilk would like nothing better than doing away with all private ownership of firearms, of course it would come in increments, but that's the ultimate goal.

Taking legal firearms away from law-abiding citizens because criminals use them for harm would be tantamount to deporting all Muslims because some of them are terrorists.

But even if he succeeded in taking away all the guns, he would still be left with the terrorists, the radical Islamic terrorists, that is, Mr. President.

We send along our deepest condolences and heartfelt sympathies to the grieving families who lost loved ones in this senseless, evil act.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

� Charlie Daniels

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