Gun control just died in Monsey and White Settlement

by Richard Schulman

Gun control just died a very public death in Monsey NY and White Settlement TX. In both — indeed in churches, temples, and mosques throughout the country — parishioners will now be “packing heat” to services, if they weren’t doing so already.

In Monsey NY, Orthodox Jewish Hanukkah celebrants chased a machete-armed slasher away with volleys of hurled furniture. Six persons were injured, one critically. “Rabbi Shmuel Gancz, director of the neighboring Chabad Jewish Center of Suffern,…said he is encouraging his congregants to bring firearms to services if they already have them and to consider getting licensed to carry them if not,” the Wall Street Journal reports. This in a state notoriously run by a Democratic Party richly endowed with “Progressive” gun-control fanatics, especially in the metropolitan New York City area.

A lesson learned in Texas

Sunday morning in White Settlement TX, armed members of the church’s security team, killed an assassin within six seconds of the commencement of his murderous assault on the church’s parishioners. In doing so, they succeeded in limiting the congregation’s deaths to two. Had they waited for police to arrive, most of the congregation would have been lying in pools of blood. “Law enforcement officials credited members of the church’s security team for ending the attack quickly,” the Dallas News reports.

Two years earlier, parishioners at a small church in Sutherland Springs TX were not so lucky. No parishioners with guns were there to stop Devin Patrick Kelley from shooting to death 26 people and wounding many others. That mistake was not repeated in White Settlement.

One wonders if the Democratic Party will continue its flirtation with oblivion by pursuing radical gun control, alongside such other political winners as open borders, tax increases, fossil fuel bans, and unending impeachment proceedings against opponents.

Donald Trump, despite serious shortcomings, looks better and better every day when contrasted with an opposition party in pursuit of la-la land.