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ORLANDO MASSACRE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Gutfeld: Orlando\u2019s doom. The most depressing article you will ever share. Share it anyway<\/strong><\/p>\n

By\u00a0Greg Gutfeld<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0FoxNews.com<\/u>The immediate consequences from the Orlando terror attack are obvious: dozens dead and maimed \u2013 families changed forever.<\/p>\n

The next layer of consequences, arriving soon, are not as obvious, but they are coming.\u00a0 Here they are:<\/p>\n

We are getting a divorce.\u00a0<\/strong>First, a poll shows that Americans are pretty much divided on their opinions about the attack.\u00a0 Most of the Democrats see it as a gun control issue. Most Republicans see it as a terror attack.\u00a0 And there seems to be no sign of compromise (why can\u2019t it be mostly \u201cterror\u201d and a little \u201cguns?\u201d asks the therapist, Dr. Gutfeld)<\/p>\n

This poll hints at an ongoing, disturbing change in this country \u2013 one that brings forth a series of even more problems \u2013 those of which I see as almost unsolvable. We quarrel about the quarrel. We cannot agree on the fight. And therefore we cannot begin to fight. Instead, we are like that proverbial snake that devours its own tail. Except, we think it\u2019s sushi. But it\u2019s blowfish. You get the idea. We\u2019re dead.<\/p>\n

How can America defeat ISIS if we have vocal factions believing that we are worse? How can we fight the enemy if a large portion of our population thinks an inanimate object \u2013 a gun \u2013 caused Orlando?<\/em><\/p>\n

We assume different identities lead to different values<\/strong>.\u00a0Does a black person, or a gay person or a fat white male, see a terror attack differently? I wouldn\u2019t think so, but activists, talking heads and assorted thought-processors disagree.\u00a0 Now we no longer look at a tragedy as an American one, but through the divisive eyes of balkanized camps of competing identities.<\/p>\n

An activist at the University of Missouri, during a vigil for the victims of Orlando, actually expressed disappointment that she had to speak in front of grievers, who happened by birth, to be white. My only relief comes from the fact that a few people heckled her (a brave gay couple). That relief left when others drowned them out.<\/p>\n

The beat-down is dead.<\/strong>\u00a0 We need to train our populace on the basics of group self-defense \u2013 meaning how to cooperate and risk their skins to take down the lone aggressor.<\/p>\n

If ten people attack a man with a gun, one or two may die \u2013 but the alternative is worse. \u201cBe Like 93<\/em>\u201d should be the motto \u2013 in honor of the heroic actions of the passengers of Flight 93, who saved uncountable lives on September 11, 2001 by attacking the hijackers and bringing the jet down in a Pennsylvania field.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not what I\u2019m really talking about. I mean justifiable aggression: explicitly meting out justice to those who deserve it. How can we do that, when we cannot agree who deserves it?<\/p>\n

The New York Times blamed Republicans for Orlando.\u00a0The Huffington Post blamed Christians. Every liberal blames guns, as well as the complicit wife of the murderous, terrorist dirtbag. And the dirtbag\u2019s dad blames social networks. He\u2019s even suing them.<\/p>\n

The more we spread the condemnations around, the less we have for the truly guilty party. Hence our incremental approach to ISIS.\u00a0 President Obama treats the war on \u201cterror\u201d (a polite phrase for Islamism), like we\u2019re playing Jenga.\u00a0 Slowly, and on rainy days.<\/p>\n

We lose respect for evidence.\u00a0<\/strong>Our inability to call a spade a spade is the result of divorcing cause from effect. If we can\u2019t call Islamism out for this horribleness, then what\u2019s left?\u00a0Blame Guns. Christians. White Zinfindal.\u00a0 It\u2019s as though you blame a massive wild fire not on dry tinder and a lit cigarette, but on poor self-esteem among carbon products.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s science: Islamism preaches the murder of gays; then an Islamist murders a club full of gays.\u00a0 Cause\u2026effect.<\/p>\n

Why does the left deny science?<\/p>\n

The way the media and our White House deny the effects of Islamism seems eerily similar to a certain industry we grew to loathe over time. Remember how the tobacco companies denied the role of their product in lung cancer? To deny that link, now, would have you laughed off the planet.\u00a0 My prediction: 20 years from now we will feel the same way about Islamism.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemember when we had a president who refused to admit the link between atrocity and Islamism\u201d\u00a0will be the same as \u201cRemember when people used to say cigarettes didn\u2019t cause cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Refusing to link Islamism to evil is denying the evidence before your objective eyes.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t even need to bring up Orlando. Try honor killings. Read up on the Taliban and what they do to girls who want to go to school. Google \u201cTaliban\u201d and \u201cacid.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Obama isn\u2019t just on the wrong side of history, he\u2019s on the wrong side of the future.\u00a0 For a guy who claims to be all about science, he lives in a fairy tale.<\/p>\n

We have murdered sympathy.\u00a0<\/strong>A product of modern leftism\u2019s regressive identity politics: we see victimhood as a zero-sum game. If you grieve for the victims of terror, is there any left for Black Lives Matter?\u00a0 If you light a candle for Orlando, why not for Ferguson?<\/p>\n

If you aren\u2019t gay, how are you able to sympathize with gay victims of terror?<\/p>\n

What if you\u2019re against gay marriage? Are you as evil as terrorists? Perhaps, some might say (or have said).<\/p>\n

One anchor at another network actually chided a sympathizing politician, in the state where the terror took place\u2026 because she did not support gay rights enough to his satisfaction.\u00a0 I was bummed he\u2019d play bouncer to the \u201cWho gets to grieve\u201d night club.\u00a0 That\u2019s beneath him. Obama was against gay marriage just a handful of years ago, my friend.<\/p>\n

Now sympathy is saddled with considerations for approval of other groups and classes. Maybe just keep quiet instead of expressing sympathy, one might conclude.<\/p>\n

We have killed debate.<\/strong>\u00a0To better enhance well-being, one must be able to argue and even allow oneself to be proven wrong.\u00a0Science is all about that: prove me wrong, please.\u00a0 Now, no one wants to be wrong, even when it\u2019s an abstract debate.<\/p>\n

Look, I think the gun control debate is a deflection from the core concern, which is terror. But I\u2019m willing to listen to some common sense, or at least informed opinions on how to prevent terrorists from getting guns.\u00a0Sadly, the gun control argument is a misleading one: used not to ban guns (we know it ain\u2019t happening), but to drive the debate away from the more volatile issue, which Islamism\u2019s universal plans.<\/p>\n

And! \u2013 wouldn\u2019t it be nice to talk about gun control with people who actually knew something about guns? Or control? If Orlando had been done not by gun, but by bomb — where would the left\u2019s argument be?\u00a0Where it was, after Boston. Nowhere.<\/p>\n

We have disabled our impulse control<\/strong>.\u00a0My motto has always been: your first public thought is often your worst public thought.\u00a0 Meaning: think before unloading.<\/p>\n

We now know that this is an impossible wish in this current climate of Twitter, Facebook and Piers Morgan.\u00a0What happened to reserve? Contemplation? Thoughtfulness? What about waiting a few days before you spout an opinion?<\/p>\n

Now every celebrity and their less famous sibling is on Twitter lecturing us on \u201cassault weapons\u201d and \u201ctolerance\u201d as if the world right now really needs a hot take from a sitcom star on his third bout of chlamydia.<\/p>\n

The strong and silent type has been replaced with the weak and loud. I\u2019d include myself in this, except that I only speak when spoken to. Otherwise, I sit quietly in a corner and drink copious amounts of wine.<\/p>\n

We no longer cooperate<\/strong>.\u00a0This sad and sober consequence is the result of combining all the results mentioned above together. Without cooperation, society is doomed.\u00a0 Cooperation contributes to better lives, over all. If what\u2019s good for you, is good for them you help them get what you have.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not the case in this era of moral relativism.<\/p>\n

The problem is: we no longer believe that what we have is good. How can America defeat ISIS if we have vocal factions believing that we are worse? How can we fight the enemy if a large portion of our population thinks an inanimate object \u2013 a gun \u2013 caused Orlando?\u00a0And not this pernicious ideology you can\u2019t even call a death cult, because radical Islam is worse than that? It\u2019s a death movement. A death phenomenon.\u00a0 It\u2019s a force that sees our conscious lives as inferior to what happens after you die. Which is why, for them, killing gays is an act of love. They\u2019re doing those sinners a favor \u2013 in their twisted skulls, killing innocents in a night club just gave the murdered a Fast Pass to Nirvana.<\/p>\n

Boy, this is a depressing article.\u00a0 And I wrote it.<\/p>\n

Read it and weep.<\/p>\n

For the victims. For the country. \u00a0For your family. For you and me.<\/p>\n

Greg Gutfeld currently serves as host of\u00a0<\/em>FOX News Channel’s (FNC)\u00a0The Greg Gutfeld Show\u00a0(Saturdays 10-11PM\/ET)<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and co-host of\u00a0<\/em>The Five\u00a0(weekdays 5-6PM\/ET)<\/em><\/a>. He joined the network in 2007 as a contributor.\u00a0<\/em>Click here for more information on Greg Gutfeld<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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