Imagine fomenting a problem and then moralizing about it while pointing to some other alleged culprit. Talk about an abundance of self-righteous audacity.
Enter the Democratic Party and its allies in the establishment media.
In a supercut of clips posted to the social media platform X, a slew of leftist nitwits blamed “gun violence” for Saturday’s assassination attempt against President Donald Trump, despite the fact that the deranged Democrat who allegedly carried out the attack cited motives that parroted those same leftists’ anti-Trump hyperbole.
The list of gun-grabbing Democrat tyrants and media nincompoops featured in the supercut included Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of New York, CNN’s Brian Stelter, and Sunny Hostin of ABC’s “The View,” to name only a few.
To run cover for an assassination attempt by a leftist, Democrats and their media allies march in lockstep:
“Gun Violence!” pic.twitter.com/3AJ3cVGyrK
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 27, 2026
The supercut should remind us of three serious and interrelated problems.
First, the establishment media does the bidding of the Democrats. Indeed, as some X users noted, the media’s coverage changes to suit left-wing narratives.
Attacker who leans left = Gun violence
Attacker who leans right = Right wing extremism, Nazi, deplorable, racist, xenophobe + gun violence
Different political view = different outrage— ohmyword (@kapease) April 28, 2026
Wow! The DNC Talking Points went out! They are the enemy of the people and responsible for most of the division in this country!
— Russell Eaton (@EatonRusse31361) April 28, 2026
Second, and more ominously, Democrats harp on gun violence because the most doctrinaire ideologues among them want Americans disarmed. All Marxists want that.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris, for instance, once spoke glowingly of Australian gun confiscation.
Every. Single. Time.
We’re the most heavily armed civilian population in the world and their never ending wet dream is gun confiscation.
Why? Because they know they can only go so far until we’re unarmed.
— LegioInvictus (@LegioInvictus24) April 28, 2026
I don’t get their point. Are they trying to say that guns will cease to exist if they disarm law-abiding citizens?
Oh, wait! Then only the government and criminals will have them!
And if Democrats are in power, I am repeating myself.
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) April 28, 2026
Finally, and most ominously of all, Democrats and their media minions have spent years lying about Trump. They have slandered him and other Republicans as Nazis, fascists, racists, etc.
Now, those same leftists tried to blame the third Trump assassination attempt on “gun violence,” when in fact we have mountains of evidence proving that their own rhetoric has radicalized rank-and-file leftists to the point where they openly approve of lethal action against those with whom they disagree.
Moreover, Democrat lawmakers know it. They simply will not take responsibility for it.
Thus, in a party whose voters disproportionately suffer from mental illness, we find thousands willing to tolerate and even celebrate political violence.
We saw this most clearly in the demonic glee leftists exhibited following the 2025 assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Meanwhile, elected Democrats slandered Kirk posthumously. In so doing, they gave their voters license to believe that Kirk, if nothing else, contributed to his own demise.
In short, Democrats spent years lying about Trump and conservatives. Those lies helped convince many Democratic voters that conservatives deserve to die. A few of those voters even showed a willingness to commit murder themselves.
Rather than assume responsibility for their reckless rhetoric, however, Democrats and their media allies harped on “gun violence.”
It is bad enough, of course, that Democrats and media figures fomented the problem of unhinged lunatics willing to kill for their ideology, but to watch and hear those same Democrats and media figures posing as morally superior really is too much to endure.
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