Render: Obama, Clinton fooled by terrorists

The political correctness coming out of the left, led by the president of the United States and his designated successor, with their predisposition to blame gun owners instead of radical jihadists for mass killings, is making a growing number of Americans crazy.

Rube Render

After each terror attack, the president addresses the nation with assurances that America can absorb these attacks and that we can stop them if only we had more stringent gun control.

As more information on the attacks becomes available, it is apparent that prior to each occurrence a government security agency had the suspects in their grasp before letting them go.

The Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, had been employed by G4S, a nationally known firm that provides security for federal buildings, since 2007. He came to the attention of the FBI in 2013 when coworkers reported he had “possible terrorist ties.”

After interviewing Mateen three times, the feds determined he was not a threat and closed the investigations.

An armed man guarding federal buildings aroused enough concern among his fellow workers that they reported him to the FBI. This evidently caused no alarm bells to ring in that agency. What new gun-control law would have prevented this armed security guard with two firearms licenses from carrying out the Orlando shooting?

The government was aware of the San Bernardino shooters, with their extensive arsenal and Mid-east travel, prior to their massacre of 14 people at a Christmas party.

The Russian government warned U.S. authorities that the Boston Marathon bombers were radical Islamists more than a year and a half prior to their attack.

In spite of numerous warnings from fellow soldiers who served with him at various posts over a number of years, the Pentagon failed to recognize that Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was up to no good and communicating with terrorists, including the American born Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, a senior recruiter and planner for terrorist operations.

The father of the underwear bomber warned U.S. authorities of his son’s intentions to attack America on Christmas day in 2009 with a bomb on Northwest Airlines flight 253, but the warnings fell on deaf ears.

One final caveat to the Orlando attack: while shooting and wounding more than 100 victims, Mateen called 911 and pledged his allegiance to ISIS.

It’s been widely noted by theologians that the devil’s greatest trick was convincing people that he didn’t exist. Radical Islamist terrorists have succeeded in pulling off the same stunt on Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Rube Render is the Curry County Republican chairman. Contact him at:

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