Information? Or incitement?
AmGreatness prints the nitty gritty details of the Covenant School shooting autopsies.
A few months ago, Lloyd Billingsley at the Trumpist website American Greatness wrote a stunningly detailed description of the autopsy reports of the people -- children -- killed in the Nashville school shooting in March.
According to forensic pathologist Emily H. Dickinson, M.D., nine-year old William Joseph Kinney, suffered a tangential graze wound “through the scalp, skull, and bilateral cerebral hemispheres,” causing “subgaleal hemorrhage, skull fractures, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and lacerations of the brain.”
Hale also shot the male child in the torso and right arm, causing perforation of the ribs and thoracic vertebrae, right lung and soft tissue of the right arm. The victim also sustained “spinal cord laceration with associated epidural and subdural hemorrhage, and thoracic vertebral fractures.” The direction of the shot was “left to right, back to front, and downward.”
Kinney also sustained a “perforating gunshot” of the abdomen and a “graze gunshot” of the left wrist. Hale also shot the boy in the torso, perforating the left shoulder, two ribs, left lung and diaphragm. The entrance wound showed stippling, evidence that Hale shot the child at point blank range. Kinney’s right arm and forearm also showed stippling and the pathologist discovered “minor blunt force trauma of the body.”
This is brutal stuff. The cost of our nation's obsession with guns made clinically clear.
But this isn't how AmGreatness has covered other mass shootings.
And the point was not to lament gun violence, per se, but a very specific type of violence: That committed by a transgender person. The shooter in Nashville was Audrey Hale -- a transgender person who went by the name "Aiden," but who has been widely known and identified by "Audrey" which is why I'm using that name here.
Billingsley's conclusion:
Sulfuric hatred and deadly violence are inherent in trans ideology, which under the Biden Junta is inherent in the system. Don’t be surprised to see more victims fall.
He's back at it again this week, with more detailed descriptions of how the victims at Nashville died:
Four months after Audrey Hale murdered six people at the Covenant School in Nashville, her manifesto remains in the hands of the FBI. While revelations await, autopsies enable the victims to testify. Consider Mike Hill, 61, the school’s custodian.
According to medical examiner Kevin B. Jenkins, Hale shot the African American in the right lateral chest, causing wounds to the lungs and mainstem bronchi, thoracic spine, aorta and left rib. Hale’s shot perforated Hill’s vertebral body and lung, causing marked disruption of the parenchyma.
His conclusion this time, I think, would be laughable were it not so serious:
In reality, the trans forces are on the attack, becoming more hostile.
“Trantifa,” a combination of transgender and Antifa, denotes a “far-left trans movement spreading across [the] U.S” and “intimidating and physically assaulting those who disagree with them. Trans swimmer Lia Thomas was recently photographed wearing a black T-shirt reading “Antifa Super Soldier.” Call it violence signaling.
The headline used the term "Transifa" instead of "Trantifa" but the point here is clear: To paint Hale not as a single disturbed person who shouldn't have had access to guns, but as the vanguard of violent gender ideologues who want to kill right-thinking Americans.
Again, this isn't how AmGreatness usually treats mass shootings, even ones involving issues of gender and identity. When five people were killed at Colorado's Club Q last November, AmGreatness went with this headline: "The Left’s Horrific Response to the Colorado Springs Shooting."
As Ronald Reagan famously admonished, “We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.”
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Mass shootings are a national catastrophe. In response to them, we need to act as a serious country. Let’s start by not blaming political parties for shootings. Let’s start by enforcing the laws that have already been passed by local, state, and federal governments. Let’s start by not attacking legal gun owners and passing more restrictive gun laws that only impact those who follow the law, but by punishing criminals for using guns while committing crimes.
And here's Julie Kelly in the aftermath of the racist Buffalo grocery store massacre:
Joe Biden will travel to Buffalo on Tuesday, ostensibly to join the upstate New York community in mourning the murders of 10 people at a local grocery store over the weekend. It is, of course, appropriate for Biden in his role as president to grieve with Americans devastated by such a brutal massacre of innocents, especially an attack that from all accounts was racially motivated.
What’s not appropriate is for Biden to use the atrocity as a platform to fuel even more hatred and division in a country ripping apart at the seams in so many ways—but that’s exactly what he will do.
The response by AmGreatness to mass shootings generally is A) to defend gun rights and B) to deflect blame whenever the shooter has a clearly right-wing motive. It has not published detailed autopsy notes, or tried to suggest a wider ideological non-metaphorical war is in the offing. And the contrast the difference at AmGreatness between the Colorado shooting and the Covenant School shooting is particularly stark: Violence against LGBT people is to be played down, while violence by LGBT people is subject to unusual levels of scrutiny.
For the record: I’m horrified by both shootings. I’d prefer that people who commit violence against gay people in nightclubs and crowds at country music concerts and Fourth of July parades and children in public schools and private Christian schools and conservative Christian churches all had less access to weapons of mass bloodshed. It’s all awful, not just some of it.
I think we need more unflinching looks at gun violence and mass shootings in this country. We should be horrified by what we choose to allow. But I don’t think “transifa” really exists or that we face a murderous onslaught by nonbinary activists. AmGreatness’ selective outrage -- along with the choice to delve into the awful details -- makes information start to seem less like information and more like incitement.