by Don Surber
A man in Cleveland, Texas, shot and killed five neighbors who complained about his firing his rifle. The media licked its chops because he killed a 9-year-old boy. This would be another opportunity to preach gun control.
The suspect, Francisco Oropesa Perez-Torres, 38, is an illegal alien who was deported four times, returning once again under Open Borders Biden to wreak mayhem and murder.
The victims included legal immigrants who had green cards.
Suddenly, the media is in a quandary because how is a criminal who continually breaks our immigration laws expected to obey gun control laws? In fact, his possession of a weapon itself already is illegal. If anything, the massacre makes the case that gun control is an exercise in futility because criminals don’t obey the law.
Nevertheless, the Jeff Bezos Post in what it pretended was a news story lectured readers on the evils of private ownership of guns.
It said, “The mass killing of a family in their home was the latest act of retaliatory gun violence to traumatize an American community. The shooting renewed calls from gun control advocates for a federal ban on assault weapons, which have a unique ability to destroy the human body. It was at least the seventh incident this month in which an armed American shot people in response to regular, everyday interactions.”
There was no attribution to this statement. But the Jeff Bezos newspaper rolled out a new line of argument that this was a regular, everyday interaction.
I submit that a guy shooting in his back yard on a Friday night is not a regular, everyday interaction. I also submit that a rifle is not an assault weapon with “a unique ability to destroy the human body.”
AP refused to admit the suspect is an illegal alien. Not until Paragraph 18 of its report did the tax-exempt news site even hint that he is here illegally.
AP said, “Authorities were able to identify Oropeza by an identity card issued by Mexican authorities to citizens who reside outside the country, as well as doorbell camera footage. Capers said police have also interviewed the suspect’s wife multiple times.”
(The media has yet to agree on the spelling of his name.)
The New York Times failed to even mention his status. In Paragraph 16, it said, “Court records show that Mr. Oropesa had been charged with misdemeanor drunken driving in Texas in 2009 and convicted. The sentence in that case was not immediately available.”
CNN, though, committed journalism in a story headlined, “Suspect in Texas massacre had been deported 4 times after entering US illegally, ICE source says.”
The media playing down the suspect being an illegal alien likely was a kneejerk response. But it could have been ordered by the White House.
The Daily Caller reported, “White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre spent over a minute addressing a shooting that broke out in Cleveland, Texas, at Monday’s briefing without once mentioning the suspected shooter appears to be an illegal immigrant.”
Need I say it? Guns don’t kill people, illegal aliens do.
Meanwhile, the tone-deaf mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, sent a letter on Sunday to Texas Governor Greg Abbott demanding he stop sending illegal aliens to her city.
She said, “I am, yet again, appealing to your better nature and asking that you stop this inhumane and dangerous action.”
Lightfoot is blaming the wrong guy. Open Borders Biden is responsible for this inhumane and dangerous action.
But I can see her point. Chicago has the nation’s strictest anti-gun laws and thanks to that one of the nation’s highest murder rates. Gang-bangers do not need competition from illegal aliens because native criminals can get the job done without any help.
The problem is illegal immigrants. By definition, the live off the grid. While many of them survive off of government subsidies, there is no record of their presence and, without cell phones and credit cards, no method to track their whereabouts. So, Francisco Oropesa Perez-Torres can murder a family and then vanish into thin air. If he is stupid enough try and sneak back to Mexico via a port of entry, he MIGHT be caught, but he has hundreds of miles of open border he can just walk across without detection, thanks to the absence of a border wall.
Democrats don’t want to solve problems, they only want to advance their power-grabbing agenda. Very soon, the problem is going to get worse than anyone could ever imagine, and it’s all idiot Biden’s fault. Every illegal immigrant, every crime committed by an illegal immigrant, every dollar spent to support illegal immigrants, every fentanyl death is on idiot Biden’s trembling, liver-spotted hands. He is lower than shit.