© 2016 Jim Spence You would never think something as simple as a request for moment
of silence to honor murder victims could teach you so much.
Turkey is considered a “moderate” Islamic nation. In Turkey
last year, immediately following the horrific shootings by radical Islamic terrorists
that killed 130 people in Paris, there was a professional soccer game being
held. Prior to the beginning of the game, the public address announcer in the
stadium called for a moment of silence to honor the murder victims.
Unbelievably, the crowd, which was virtually 100% Muslim, booed and whistled loudly.
It was a chilling reminder of how Muslim countries reacted when the Twin Towers
and Pentagon were hit by suicide bombers on 9-11. Crowds of Muslims gathered all
over the Middle East and Northern Africa and cheered in the streets,
celebrating the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. Sorry folks, these are
not the behaviors of civilized friends who share your desire for freedom and
peace.
This week, in the United States House of Representatives Democrats
Seth Moulton and Katherine Clark of Massachusetts, along with colleague Jim
Himes of Connecticut, actually refused to participate in a moment of silence to
honor the shooting victims in Orlando. It seems fair to ask why?

Still, we all seem to agree that the murders of the people
in Orlando qualify as a horrific atrocity. What happened in Orlando is
absolutely sickening. Would you like to feel sicker? Consider the city of
Chicago, which has had tough gun control laws for years. So far in 2016 the
city of Chicago has had 283 murders. Most of the victims died from gunshot
wounds. This is more than five times as many people who were killed in Orlando.
It has happened in Chicago in less than six months. Essentially Chicago, with its very
tough gun control laws, the kind of gun laws that Democrats want for all fifty
states, experiences the body count equivalent of an Orlando……..every month.
Let’s consider Paris. This is a place where guns are not merely
restricted, they are illegal. One hundred-thirty people were gunned down by
radical Islamic killers last November in France, a country where it isn’t hard
to own a gun…….it is illegal to own a gun.
Let’s return to the mindset of these Democrats in Congress
along with their hapless leader Barack Obama. Many have had the sanctimonious gall
to stand before the American public and put anger on display because they can’t
get the gun laws they want. Laws like they have in Chicago, or better yet like
the laws they have in Paris.

