Terrorism Is Terrorism, Regardless Of Ideology
When yesterday's shooting happened, my first reaction was to hope no one died. That hope was dashed not too long into the event.
My second hope was that I wouldn't have to spend day after day listening to and writing about more excuses for why these things happen. No, let me make myself even clearer. I didn't want to have to write about all the insane things right-wingers say after terrorist attacks in this country to justify their fealty to the NRA.
I didn't want to hear more idiots on Fox News and CNN tell America that we all need to have more guns, or that Good Guys With Guns are needed to defeat Bad Guys With Guns. And I didn't want to write about them either.
I hoped beyond all measure that their names wouldn't be Arabic, because then we would get to hear about how everyone from the Middle East is a terrible, evil terrorist.
That hope was dashed, as Ted Cruz proved this morning during a speech to the Jewish Republican Coalition. His remarks are in the video at the top, where he very specifically calls the San Bernardino attack "radical Islamic terrorism."
Compare and contrast his remarks there with his reaction to the shooting at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood facility: