Saturday 29 February 2020

Why There Must be a Pre-Tribulation Rapture of The Church!

Watchman Report: No Weapon Formed Will Prosper

FEAR FEST 2020: Democrats And The Liberal Media Need You To Be Terrified Of The Coronavirus So Trump Doesn’t Get Re-elected In November

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FEAR FEST 2020: Democrats And The Liberal Media Need You To Be Terrified Of The Coronavirus So Trump Doesn’t Get Re-elected In November

by Geoffrey Grider

FEAR FEST 2020: Democrats And The Liberal Media Need You To Be Terrified Of The Coronavirus So Trump Doesn't Get Re-elected In November

Democrats and the fake news media are using the current coronavirus outbreak to make you so scared, so terrified, that you will vote a Democrat into office in November

The Democrats have been running scared for a long time now, they are out of tricks and nearly out of time before Donald Trump wins re-election in the coming #MAGA2020Landslide. They tried golden showers in the fake Russian Dossier, that didn't work. They tried the Russian Collusion fantasy, that didn't work. They put doddering, old and semi-senile Robert Mueller on the stand, that didn't work. They tried to impeach him over non-impeachable offenses, that didn't work. #AcquitedForever
"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones." Proverbs 3:5-8 (KJB)
Now with only months till the election, they want you to think that Trump is causing the coronavirus to rain down on Americans, and the only remedy, of course, is to elect a Democrat or Communist in November. Believe it or not, the Associated Press, one of America's oldest news outlets, is calling the Democrats on their overt distortions of the truth, calling them out in the article below. Yay! Finally someone in the main stream media who is not Fox News who is actually telling the truth. Let's see how long it lasts. Trump closing borders with Mexico and cutting some trade ties in China have actually worked to keep the coronavirus out of much of America, so kudos to the president for his excellent prescient policy making.
People, listen to me, the coronavirus is real, and it is causing some deaths around the world, but it is no where near anything that could be called a pandemic or epidemic. In 2002, they said that the West Nile Virus would kill us all, in 2004, they said that SARS would kill us all, in 2005, they said that Bird Flu would kill us all, in 2009, they said that Swine Flu - H1N1 would kill us all, in 2014, they said that Ebola would kill us all, in 2016, they said that Zika would kill us all. Now, answer me this, did any of these previous "most-terrifyingly deadly diseases" cause anywhere near the damage they said it would cause? No, it did not.
The Spanish Flu Outbreak of 1918, now that was a pandemic, that was something to be afraid of, over 50,000,000 people died of influenza that year. The coronavirus is not remotely close to that on any level. Every year in America, tens of thousands of people die from the flu, the flu is no joke and guess what? It is more deadly that the coronavirus. Don't believe the hype, don't let the Democrats and the fake news media fake you out on this one.
If the coronavirus becomes a pandemic, it will be headlines news right here on NTEB. Until then, trust in the Lord, take your vitamins, get your rest, and drink plenty of pure water. If the Lord wants to send pestilence down on us, there will be nothing you could do about it anyway. So keep looking up!

AP FACT CHECK: Democrats distort coronavirus readiness

FROM THE AP: Democratic presidential contenders are describing the federal infectious-disease bureaucracy as rudderless and ill-prepared for the coronavirus threat because of budget cuts and ham-handed leadership by President Donald Trump. That’s a distorted picture. For starters, Trump hasn’t succeeded in cutting the budget.
He’s proposed cuts but Congress ignored him and increased financing instead. The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aren’t suffering from budget cuts that never took effect.

A look at some of the Democrats’ remarks:

MIKE BLOOMBERG: “There’s nobody here to figure out what the hell we should be doing. And he’s defunded — he’s defunded Centers for Disease Control, CDC, so we don’t have the organization we need. This is a very serious thing.” — debate Tuesday night.
JOE BIDEN, comparing the Obama-Biden administration with now: “We increased the budget of the CDC. We increased the NIH budget. ... He’s wiped all that out. ... He cut the funding for the entire effort.”
THE FACTS: They’re both wrong to say the agencies have seen their money cut. Bloomberg is repeating the false allegation in a new ad that states the U.S. is unprepared for the virus because of “reckless cuts” to the CDC. Trump’s budgets have proposed cuts to public health, only to be overruled by Congress, where there’s strong bipartisan support for agencies such as the CDC and NIH. Instead, financing has increased.
Indeed, the money that government disease detectives first tapped to fight the latest outbreak was a congressional fund created for health emergencies.
Some public health experts say a bigger concern than White House budgets is the steady erosion of a CDC grant program for state and local public health emergency preparedness — the front lines in detecting and battling new disease. But that decline was set in motion by a congressional budget measure that predates Trump.
The broader point about there being “nobody here” to coordinate the response sells short what’s in place to handle an outbreak.
The public health system has a playbook to follow for pandemic preparation — regardless of who’s president or whether specific instructions are coming from the White House. Those plans were put into place in anticipation of another flu pandemic, but are designed to work for any respiratory-borne disease.
Among the health authorities overseeing the work are Dr. Anne Schuchat, CDC’s principal deputy director and a veteran of previous outbreaks, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, NIH’s infectious disease chief who has advised six presidents.
“The CDC’s response has been excellent, as it has been in the past,” said John Auerbach, president of the nonpartisan Trust for America’s Health, which works with government at all levels to improve the nation’s response to high-risk health crises. Some Democrats have charged that Trump decimated the nation’s public health leadership, but Auerbach said CDC’s top scientific ranks have remained stable during the past three years.

Will the preparations be enough?

One of the lessons learned in prior crises, such as the anthrax attacks, is not to offer false assurances when scientists have questions about the illness. The CDC, for example, can accurately test for the virus but has struggled to get working test kits to state health departments. That’s key if there’s a need to rapidly increase the number of tests being performed.
The U.S. closed borders to travelers from China to buy time as preparations began but, “classically that’s not the way you address an outbreak,” Fauci told The Associated Press this week. “If you do it for a very limited period of time, temporarily until you can get things in order in your own country, it could have some benefit. But in general, the concept of closing borders, you cannot do that for an extended period of time.”
But with infections now in much of the world, one of the questions for U.S. policymakers is whether it’s time to modify any of those border or travel restrictions. READ MORE

Russia Sends Two Warships Armed With Cruise Missiles To Prevent Turkey From Launching Full-Scale Invasion Of Syria

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Russia Sends Two Warships Armed With Cruise Missiles To Prevent Turkey From Launching Full-Scale Invasion Of Syria

by Geoffrey Grider

Russia on Friday said it was sending two warships armed with cruise missiles to waters off the Syrian coast and blamed Ankara for the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in Syria's Idlib region the previous day.

Russia on Friday said it was sending two warships armed with cruise missiles to waters off the Syrian coast and blamed Ankara for the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in Syria's Idlib region the previous day.

Russia at the moment is undergoing a delicate balancing act, trying to maintain relations with Turkey while at the same time trying to prevent them from invading Syria, where Russia is backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Turkish president Erdogan is  now warning that a full-scale invasion of Syria could be right around the corner, something Russia is trying to prevent.
"Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:" Ezekiel 39:1,2 (KJB)
War is not exciting, nothing exciting about the planned death and destruction of other human beings, but watching the Middle East preparing itself for the fulfillment of Bible prophecy is quite exciting. Think about it, every country mentioned in this story today - Russia, Turkey, Syria - are all mentioned in end times prophecy, because their greatest roles are yet future. Exciting times to be a Bible believing Christian, and waiting for Flight #777.

Russia sends two warships armed with cruise missiles to Syria's coast

FROM THE JERUSALEM POST: The killing of the Turkish soldiers on Thursday and the wounding of 32 others, announced by the governor in Turkey's Hatay province bordering Syria, raised the Turkish military death toll in the region to 54 this month.
Turkey has sent thousands of troops and heavy military hardware into Syria and Erdogan has warned that Turkey will launch a full-scale offensive to repel Syrian forces unless they pull back from Turkish observation posts in the region.
Though trying to coordinate their efforts on Syria, Russia backs Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, while Turkey backs rebel forces opposing Assad. Responding to Thursday's killings, a senior Turkish official said on Friday that Ankara would no longer stop Syrian refugees from reaching Europe. Turkey blamed an air strike by Syrian government forces for the deaths.
Russia's Defence Ministry was cited by the RIA news agency on Friday however as saying that the Turkish troops had been hit by artillery fire from Syrian government forces who were trying to repel an offensive by rebel forces.
It was quoted as saying that Ankara had failed to notify Moscow of the presence of Turkish troops in the area hit by shelling despite being in regular communication with the Russian military.
The Turkish troops had been deployed directly alongside anti-government rebels, the ministry was cited as saying. But according to information provided by Turkey there were no Turkish troops in the area and Russia said that Turkish forces "shouldn't have been there."
Russian war planes did not carry out any air strikes in the area at the time of the incident and Moscow did everything it could to help once it learnt of the Turkish troop presence, the ministry was cited as saying. That included ensuring Syrian forces stopped shelling to allow Turkey to evacuate its dead and wounded. Separately, and as tensions between Ankara and Damascus rose, Russia's Black Sea Fleet was cited by the Interfax news agency on Friday as saying it was sending two warships equipped with Kalibr cruise missiles to waters off the Syrian coast. READ MORE

Netanyahu Says His Likud Party Are Closing in on Victory In The Upcoming Israeli Elections.


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TikTok Video Of Drag Queen Tynomi Banks Performing Sexually-Charged Dance For 6-Year Old As Deranged Adults Clapped Their Approval

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TikTok Video Of Drag Queen Tynomi Banks Performing Sexually-Charged Dance For 6-Year Old As Deranged Adults Clapped Their Approval

by Geoffrey Grider

In a video posted to Tiktok on Febuary 9th, Toronto-based Drag Queen Tynomi Banks found herself giving a 6 year old girl her own little show as all the adults around her clapped, hollered and cheered.

In a video posted to TikTok on Febuary 9th, Toronto-based Drag Queen Tynomi Banks found herself giving a 6 year old girl her own little show as all the adults around her clapped, hollered and cheered.

You can see the look on this little girl's face as she is being defiled by this disgusting display of a drag queen in hot pants dancing in a sexually-suggestive manner, she is by turns baffled and horrified. And to make matters worse, she was placed in this chair and in this position by her parents, and forced to be a part of it. Let's draw the battle lines in the sand right now, shall we? If you are a parent who approves of this and subjects your child to it, then you are guilty of child abuse. Wake up, Church, the wolf is inside and devouring.
"Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost." Matthew 18:10,11 (KJB)
This is a moral outrage to any decent person, and it is also the agenda of the LGBTQ+P for Pedophile Movement whose target is your children. We told you when Drag Queen Story Hour first started that they were coming for your children, but the part that almost no one saw was how willing parents would be to sacrifice their children to this abomination. And that's the 'rest of the story', too bad Jack Chick didn't live long enough to see his Doom Town gospel tract come to life.

Drag Queen Performs Sexual Dance For 6 Year Old In TikTok Video

FROM PULPIT & PEN: CONTENT WARNING - This video contains graphic cross-dressing grossness. We provide it to demonstrate what is happening to our children. Be forewarned. The original poster claims that the little girl wanted to get a better view of the going-ons, and writes:
It was so cute. The little girl asked to “dance” with her and her mom was cheering her on the entire time.
In an act of even greater child abuse than bringing her there in the first place, the mother set her up her daughter on a chair too big for her so that she could get her own little show of this man gyrating his hips suggestively and walking on all fours towards her, to the point that the little girl hands the dancer a dollar bill that had been given to her.
The young girl, for her part, looks traumatized and scared. Predictably, half of the comments on the video are completely supportive and think this is the most wonderful, cutest thing ever. READ MORE

Israel Takes Out Senior Hezbollah Terrorist in Syria

Hezbollah supporters in Beirut
Hezbollah operative Imad at-Tawil was killed in the Syrian Golan Heights by an Israeli drone, Arab media reports.
By JNS
A senior Hezbollah operative was killed on Thursday in an Israeli drone strike in Syria, according to Arab media reports. The official was named as Imad at-Tawil.
The Jordan-based Al-Hadath news outlet reported that Tawil was in charge of creating an Iranian-backed terrorist network on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, presumably in order to make that area a theater of operations against Israel.
Hezbollah has been involved in the Syrian civil war for the past several years. Israel has warned Hezbollah it will not let the Shi’ite terrorist group build bases and networks in Syria that could be used as a staging ground for attacks against Israel.
According to the U.K.-based monitor group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at-Tawil was killed when his car was hit from the air. Russian media said witnesses on the ground reported intense activity by Israeli aircraft nearby.
Earlier this week, the Israel Air Force hit targets associated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization near Damascus. The PIJ said two of its operatives were killed in the strike.

Friday 28 February 2020

The Devilish Mad Mullahs Of Iran Strike Again As The Persians Aim To Execute 8 Christians For Leaving Islam - Media is silent to avoid damaging Islam's image

Iran To Execute 8 Christians For Leaving Islam - Media is silent to avoid damaging Islam's image


The shari'a regime in Iran cracks down on the Christian minority. 
Security officials from Iran’s Intelligence Ministry raided the homes of eight Iranians converts to Christianity on July 1, in the southern city of Bushehr, carting them off to solitary confinement.
 
Under Iranian sharia law Leaving Islam or converting from Islam to Christianity is punishable by death. Christians in Iran are not allowed to practice their religion publicly. The persecuted Christian minority in Iran are forbidden from sharing their faith with non-Christians.
צפייה בתמונה בטוויטר
Consequently, church services in Persian (Iran’s national language) are not allowed. Before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Assyrian community in Iran totaled approximately 200,000 people. However, since then many have fled and in 2015 only 32,000 Assyrians were left in the country, mostly in Tehran. 
Iran is cracking down on its Christian minority, but the media and the UN are silent in order to avoid damaging the image of Islam. 
Since 1979 Khomeini’s regime has executed tens of thousands of Iranians. The regime has killed thousands of Americans. This regime hasn’t changed in 40 years, 
Germany, Britain and France should join the US and impose sanctions against the sharia regime in Iran.

"The Long And Short Term Threats to Humans On Planet Earth" from Beast Watch News

Isaiah / Yeshayahu 62:6-7 I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem, who will not always be silent all the day nor all the night; you who remember Jehovah, do not be silent. And give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

The Long And Short Term Threats to Humans On Planet Earth

Just how bad is the coronavirus, anyway? And can it actually stop the world economy? Will there be 150,000,000 million that die?

Check out this week's Jerusalem Report!

Islamic Jihad Looking To Provoke Armed Conflict With Israel

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PIJ is trying to strategically spoil ongoing negotiations and force Hamas into a war it does not want to fight right now. Palestinian terrorism against Israelis is often a product of infighting among competing factions -- a competition over who can challenge Israel most effectively in an effort to lead the Palestinian constituency.
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China's giant state-owned companies will likely have enough of a liquidity lifeblood to last them for 2-3 quarters, it is the country's small businesses that are facing a head on collision with an iceberg, over 85% of small businesses - which employ 80% of China's population - are expect to run out of cash within three months, and a third expect the cash to be all gone within a month.
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Imagine dropping your son off at school, never knowing that he lives a completely different existence as a girl for eight hours a day -- and everyone knows it but you. And not only do teachers know it, but they go to great lengths to hide it.
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A pro-gay, middle school teacher told me some years ago that coming out as gay was the new fad in her school, the new "cool" thing to do. She then told me that, a few days earlier, a 12-year-old boy came out as gay to his class, only to say to this teacher the next day, "I think I made a mistake. Can I take it back?"
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Nancy Pelosi Criticizes Trump Over Coronavirus, But Teeming Outdoor Homelessness In Her District In San Francisco May Just Become Ground Zero For Outbreak In United States

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Nancy Pelosi Criticizes Trump Over Coronavirus, But Teeming Outdoor Homelessness In Her District In San Francisco May Just Become Ground Zero For Outbreak In United States

by Geoffrey Grider

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is criticizing Trump over handling of coronavirus, but the teeming homeless problem and sanitary conditions in her home district of San Francisco may just lead to a ground zero outbreak of the disease.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is criticizing Trump over handling of coronavirus, but the teeming homeless problem and sanitary conditions in her home district of San Francisco may just lead to a ground zero outbreak of the disease.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is criticizing President Trump over his response to the coronavirus, but she needs to look a little closer to home to see where the real problem is. She is a congresswoman for San Francisco, an area that has a massive outdoor homeless tent city population, and an area of the country already teeming with diseases like the bubonic plague. The homeless there openly defecate on the streets amid the squalor of this once idyllic city by the bay. If the coronavirus comes to Nancy Pelosi's district cases will spread like wildfire.
Forbes reports that in Nancy Pelosi's district: " The trash, used needles, and human waste littering California’s cities have led to increased numbers of rats and—along with them—fleas and deadly diseases. There were 13 reported cases of typhus in California in 2008, spiking to 167 in 2018, while hepatitis A, tuberculosis, and staph has been spreading aggressively in San Francisco and other California cities. A new public health threat may be on the verge of making a deadly appearance: bubonic plague—known in the Middle Ages as the “Black Death”—it was responsible killing about 60% of the population of Eurasia in the mid-1300s." READ MORE
San Francisco is a dirty, rotten, disease infested rat hole thanks to the Democratic policies that have destroyed it, and Nancy Pelosi has done literally nothing about the homeless problem. Nothing. What did she do yesterday to reassure her people that she was "handling things"? She baked fortune cookies with the message "United We Stand", but guess what? Her district is sinking, and with the coronavirus now here, Nancy Pelosi and her filthy district may just be overseeing the spread of it. See video below on just how crazy bad San Francisco has become.

President Trump tears into Nancy Pelosi, Schumer for politicizing coronavirus

FROM THE NY POST: President Trump on Wednesday ripped House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over their criticism of his response to the coronavirus threat — charging that they were playing politics while he was trying to protect the American people. “I think Speaker Pelosi is incompetent. I think she’s not thinking about the country,” he said when asked about the California Democrat’s statement that Trump didn’t know what he was doing in his response to the threat.
“Instead of making a statement like that where I’ve been beating her routinely at everything, instead of making a statement like that, she should be saying we have to work together because we have a big problem potentially and maybe it’s going to be a very little problem,” Trump said at the White House during a press briefing on the administration’s response to the worldwide virus.
“I hope that it’s going to be a very little problem but we have to work together. Instead she wants to do the same thing with ‘Crying’ Chuck Schumer,” he said.
The New York senator had panned the administration’s request for $2.5 billion to combat the virus, saying it wasn’t enough, and urged Congress to spend $8.5 billion.
“He goes out and says the president only asks for $2.5 million. He should have $8.5 billion. This is the first time I’ve ever been told we should take more, usually it’s we have to take less,” the president said. “He shouldn’t be making statements like that because it’s so bad for the country, and Nancy Pelosi, she should go back to her district and get it cleaned it up. I’m just saying, we should all be working together. She’s trying to create a panic and there’s no reason to panic because we have done so good,” he asserted.
“All they’re trying to do is get a political advantage. This isn’t about political advantage, we’re all trying to do the right thing. They shouldn’t be saying this is terrible, president trump isn’t asking for enough money. How stupid a thing to say?”
Nancy Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, Drew Hammill, responded to Trump’s claims by retweeting a video the House speaker originally posted Monday of her making fortune cookies in San Francisco with the message, “United We Stand.”
“This is what competent leadership looks like,” Hammill tweeted. “The Speaker on Monday visited San Francisco’s Chinatown, the beautiful heart of her district, to urge calm and support local businesses. Ridiculous to suggest her actions have caused panic.”
“This is not political. Our proposal was put together after hearing from public health experts and looking at historical precedents, like in 2009 when Congress appropriated over $7B to fight the H1N1 flu,” Schumer said in a statement to The Post. “My message to the president is simple: It was incompetent and dangerous to propose cuts to CDC funding or simply trust other governments (like China) to handle this. Simply incompetent.” READ MORE

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Fake News New York Times Says 11,000 Gun Murders Is An ‘Epidemic’, But Calls 10,489 Late-Term Abortions ‘Exceedingly Rare’ And Not Worthy Of Discussion

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Fake News New York Times Says 11,000 Gun Murders Is An ‘Epidemic’, But Calls 10,489 Late-Term Abortions ‘Exceedingly Rare’ And Not Worthy Of Discussion

by Geoffrey Grider

If Gun Murders Are 'Epidemic,' Why Does NYT Call 10,000 Late-Term Abortions 'Exceedingly Rare'?

When is something “exceedingly rare?” When is something an “epidemic?” It seems the answer lies in how it fits your narrative, at least when it comes to The New York Times.

Liberals these days cannot seem to get enough abortion, they want it on demand, they want it up to the due date, and soon it will be after the due date. In the warped and permanently confused Liberal mind, 11,000 gun murders is a "raging epidemic", while 10,489 late-term abortions where the baby feels everything is so 'exceedingly rare' that it doesn't even need to be discussed they say. What did Margaret Sanger call them? Ah, that's right, Planned Parenthood founder Sanger called them 'weeds'.
"I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:" Deuteronomy 30:19 (KJB)
Let's not be shocked anymore about the people Adolf Hitler killed in the Nazi Holocaust if 2,362 US babies aborted each and every day in 2017 doesn't raise an eyebrow. Gun violence? Don't make me laugh, 450 people are killed daily in alcohol-related car crashes, are we banning cars or alcohol? What a strange thing it must be to have a Liberal mind where distortion is their only reality. Please watch the video at the bottom to see how evil, vile and wicked Margaret Sanger was, and how evil, vile and wicked Planned Parenthood is.

If Gun Murders Are 'Epidemic,' Why Does NYT Call 10,000 Late-Term Abortions 'Exceedingly Rare'?

FROM THE WESTERN JOURNAL: Take late-term abortions. In an article about how Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is “looking to energize social conservatives,” Sheryl Gay Stolberg pinned the “exceedingly rare” tag on two bills involving late-term abortions.
”Both bills put a spotlight on late-term abortions, which are exceedingly rare — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last year that abortions after 20 weeks accounted for 1.2 percent of abortions in 2016, the latest period studied,” Stolberg wrote in the Monday article.
As Ramesh Ponnuru pointed out at National Review, however, this number wasn’t as insignificant as Stolberg wants you to think it is.
“She cites a CDC estimate that abortion after 20 weeks accounted for 1.2 percent of abortions in 2016. There were 874,100 abortions in the U.S. that year; 1.2 percent would be 10,489,” Ponnuru wrote. “For comparison, the number of gun homicides in the U.S. that year was estimated to be about 11,000. Perhaps the Times should start calling them ‘exceedingly rare’ too?”
Funny he should mention that.
Two days after the San Bernardino mass shooting in 2015, The Times’ editorial board was pretty clear regarding how it felt about the number of gun deaths in America, declaring the time had come to “End the Gun Epidemic in America.
The article was hyper-specific, too, in that the board felt a particular danger was posed by those evil “assault weapons,” an ill-defined category of rifles that look really minatory and hold a special appeal to mass shooters not because they’re particularly efficient at murder but because they get media coverage like this.
“It is a moral outrage and a national disgrace that civilians can legally purchase weapons designed specifically to kill people with brutal speed and efficiency,” the board wrote. “These are weapons of war, barely modified and deliberately marketed as tools of macho vigilantism and even insurrection. America’s elected leaders offer prayers for gun victims and then, callously and without fear of consequence, reject the most basic restrictions on weapons of mass killing, as they did on Thursday. They distract us with arguments about the word terrorism. Let’s be clear: These spree killings are all, in their own ways, acts of terrorism.”
In 2017, the year with the highest number of mass shooting deaths on record, 224 people were killed. In 2016, the year after San Bernardino, 374 people were murdered by rifles, certainly not all of them from those “weapons of mass killings” that are “deliberately marketed as tools of macho vigilantism and even insurrection.” READ MORE