It Happened... Again

The probabilities are improbable

It has been a rough weekend. There was a mass shooting in Australia, and a famous director was stabbed to death by his own son. However, lost between these two major events is something of greater importance: the Brown University Shooting.

You have probably heard by now about the sheer incompetence surrounding this tragedy. There was no camera footage of the person who did it. The police later took somebody in, then they released him because it was apparently not the guy. The police will not give many details about what they know, if they know anything at all.

What we do know, however, is that two students have been confirmed dead. An 18-year-old medical student from Uzbekistan, Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, and a 19-year-old American girl named Ella Cook.

From what I have read, Umurzokov seemed to be inoffensive. His family came to the US in 2011, and his fellow students had a good opinion of him. He was studying neuroscience to become a neurosurgeon, as well as to learn more about his own disease he was afflicted with when he was younger.

The other victim was Ella Cook. This is where things get interesting. Cook was the Vice President of the Brown University Republican Club. The school is very much a majority liberal institution, as with most places in the New England area. The chances of a shooter just so happening to pick the one Gen Z Republican girl on campus in a “random attack” is quite low.

There has been speculation that Cook was the target of the attack. If that is the case, then it seems that Mr. Umurzokov was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, though killing him off would provide more credence to the “random attack” theory.

Of course, given that the police have been so tight-lipped about this (your blue state, blue city police forces at work), it leaves one to speculate on what the motive could have possibly been. Right now, it is looking very likely that this was a targeted attack against Ella, and that the other death and injuries were just collateral damage.

This brings us to the main point of this post. We have seen yet another example of a right-wing young person being killed. It is clear that the killing of Charlie Kirk only emboldened the people who commit these acts because there has hardly been any crackdown on violent left-wing activism.

Sure, we apparently had the Department of Justice get the Turtle Island Liberation Front over the weekend, which is a whole whopping four people from what I recall from an organization I’ve never heard of beforehand. Yet we still have people like the John Brown Gun Club still somehow walking around even though they have issued violent threats in the past.

My main point is that the Trump Administration needs to actively crack down on these organizations and people. If it comes out that this shooter targeted Miss Cook for political reasons, it will have been another preventable death. The reason why these people continue to operate without a care in the world is because there is a lack of fear.

The only way we will be able to stop these killings is by making the would-be killers fear the consequences. Fear works. If somebody fears the consequences of an action, they will be less likely compelled to take that action.

As of right now, they only need to feel fear. If fear fails to deter them, we must make them feel terror, which is the next level above fear. We must use psychological warfare. What do these people fear most? What makes them terrified? What can we use against their mind that will make them completely immobilized?

These are the questions that the Administration must be asking themselves. This is the strategy that the Department of Justice must be adopting in regard to left-wing violence. If you are not willing to undertake a military-style crackdown, then mentally break them.

If the administration continues to twiddle their thumbs for whatever reason, then logically we will see organized efforts by right-wing groups to start defending themselves. Once that happens, it will be a brawl.

As of now, we can only wait and see what the motive was for this act of terror. With how incompetent the local officials have been, we might never get an actual answer. They might not even catch the guy. Heck, they may as well have sent out the social workers at this point, it couldn’t possibly be any worse.

Rest in Peace Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov.

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