Cynical is the word. Hypocritical. Deceiving.
White Nationalists and opioids, and this EXCLUDES marijuana Mr. Sessions, are more dangerous to America than ISIS.
Believe me!
First three ietms:
"Terrorism and Immigration: A Risk Analysis" 13 Sep 2016
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2842277
"Terrorism is a hazard to human life and material prosperity that should be addressed in a sensible manner whereby the benefits of actions to contain it outweigh the costs. Foreign-born terrorists who entered the country, either as immigrants or tourists, were responsible for 88 percent (or 3,024) of the 3,432 murders caused by terrorists on U.S. soil from 1975 through the end of 2015."
"The math of mass shootings" [USA Terrorists.]
By Bonnie Berkowitz, Lazaro Gamio, Denise Lu,
Kevin Uhrmacher and Todd Lindeman Updated Nov. 20, 2017. Originally published in December 2015
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/mass-shootings-in-america/
"There is no universally accepted definition of a mass shooting, and different organizations use different criteria. In this piece we use a narrow definition and look only at the deadliest mass shootings, beginning Aug. 1, 1966, when ex-Marine sniper Charles Whitman killed his wife and mother, then climbed a 27-story tower at the University of Texas and killed 14 more people before police shot him to death. The numbers here refer to 146 events in which four or more people were killed by a lone shooter (or two shooters in three cases). An average of eight people died during each event, often including the shooters."
"White American men are a bigger domestic terrorist threat than Muslim foreigners"
Since Trump took office, more Americans have been killed by white American men with no connection to Islam than by Muslim terrorists or foreigners.
By Jennifer Williams Oct 2, 2017
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/10/2/16396612/las-vegas-mass-shooting-terrorism-islam
"When President Donald Trump signed his since-revised executive order banning people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States, he claimed it was to protect Americans from “radical Islamic terrorists.”
“We don’t want ‘em here,” Trump told reporters at the Pentagon, where he signed the order in January.
But in the eight months since Trump took office, more Americans have been killed in attacks by white American men with no connection to Islam than by Muslim terrorists or foreigners."
I suggest every killing is a crime and we should treat every killing according to laws we already have.
"Face it: America has a homegrown terror problem"
Dan Rodricks The Baltimore Sun 21 Oct 2017
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/dan-rodricks-blog/bs-md-rodricks-1022-story.html
"Here we are, plagued by domestic violence and an opioid crisis, and the president of the United States warns incessantly of the need to make America safe from foreign terrorists. He orders federal agents to ramp up their hunt for undocumented immigrants. He closes the door on thousands of refugees. He keeps trying to ban travel to the United States from predominantly Muslim countries. “We must keep America safe!” he tweets.
Here we are, three weeks after an American citizen fired hundreds of bullets, machine gun-style, into a crowd at an outdoor concert in Las Vegas, killing 59 people and injuring more than 500 others. It is considered the worst mass killing in modern U.S. history. The president declared the shooter a “demented, sick individual,” then moved on to other business.
Here we are, in Maryland, with a horrific workplace shooting in Harford County that resulted in the deaths of three men, immigrants all, and the president tweets about an increase in crime in the United Kingdom, linking it, erroneously, to the “spread of radical Islamic terror,” again raising the threat of fanatical violence against the United States.
Donald J. Trump’s obsessive harping about outside threats, reflected in his fear-mongering rhetoric and in his draconian immigration policies, means he can avoid acknowledging the large, internal problems that only intelligent vision and big, principled leadership can solve.
And it’s not just Trump. Many Americans would rather look outward than look inward because looking inward is tough. It means facing up to your most immediate problems, and who wants that?"
More.
"I don’t see how we advance and become a great society if we do not deal with the big problems at home: The proliferation of guns and our failure (the failure of our laws and our criminal justice system) to keep them out of the hands of the wrong people; putting people with drug addictions and mental illness in prisons for punishment instead of hospitals for treatment; a rate of opioid addiction that became a deadly crisis before we acted to stop it; public schools that still fail to educate too many children, especially kids from low-income households; our reluctance to face up to the racist aspects of the country’s history and understand how it affects many of our fellow citizens; our long reliance on fossil fuels and how it continues to damage the Earth’s atmosphere.
If there’s peril facing America, it’s right at home. It’s right in front of us."
TO REPEAT: I suggest every killing is a crime and we should treat every killing according to laws we already have.
New laws requiring lists of bad people and "radical" [terror] groups is dangerous. Laws are hard to write and can be harder to enforce. Unintended consequences from reactive laws emotionally written with little rational support can hurt more than help.
