Democrats didn’t wait for facts after the Brown University shooting. They didn’t wait for motive, context, or even basic confirmation. As usual, they reached for the same script, pointing fingers at President Donald Trump and the Second Amendment while the story was still unfolding. This playbook exposes a deeper rot in American politics, where tragedy becomes a tool for partisan leverage and failed narratives are recycled to avoid genuine accountability.
On Saturday, an unidentified man opened fire on the Brown University campus in Providence, killing two and injuring several others during exams in an engineering and physics building. Brown is a gun-free campus in a state that has done everything gun-control activists demand, but none of that stopped a determined killer.
By Sunday morning, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) was on CNN with Dana Bash, eager to turn the blood on the floor into political capital. He declared that “Donald Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country,” a wild and irresponsible smear delivered before the public knew who the shooter was, why he did it, or how he got his weapon. This was about branding Trump and Republicans as the villains, not about facts or solutions.
Chris Murphy goes after Trump for Brown University shoot*ng:
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“Donald Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country."
Dana Bash provides an assist to Murphy for his garbage rhetoric. pic.twitter.com/pGrOEpQIOI
The Democratic Party spends every day painting its opponents as Nazis, fascists, and existential threats to democracy, then pretends to be shocked when someone takes that hysteria seriously. Trump is not only their favorite villain; he is also a victim of the atmosphere they created, having survived an attempted assassination fueled by years of dehumanizing language from the left.
But, he’s the real villain here, they say.
Even Bash couldn’t ignore the obvious when she noted that Rhode Island already has “pretty strict gun laws,” including universal background checks, red-flag laws, and waiting periods.
That is an on‑air confession that the Democrats’ preferred “solutions” failed to prevent exactly the kind of tragedy they claim those laws would stop. If gun control worked the way they promise, Brown would not be a crime scene.
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Neither would Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, for that matter. Australia is known for having strict gun laws, yet those laws couldn’t stop the carnage that took place there on Sunday. For all the criticism the left has about the United States not doing enough about gun violence, Australia is a country that literally confiscated huge numbers of firearms and imposed some of the strictest gun laws in the Western world. At least a dozen people were killed at a Hanukkah celebration, with many more wounded, in a nation gun‑control advocates constantly hold up as the model America should copy.
Every time a tragedy like this strikes, the outcome is predictable, no matter where it happens. The left immediately looks for someone to blame who is not the shooter. These killings are treated less as human catastrophes and more as political leverage, which explains the sudden silence when a mass shooter turns out to be transgender.
Gun laws did not save Jews in Sydney. Gun-free policies and heavy regulation did not save students at Brown. Yet the left never rushes to blame the murderers who pulled the triggers or the policies that failed. The target is always Trump and the Republican Party.
At the same time, the loudest incitement comes from the very people accusing him. They routinely describe law enforcement as “fascist tyranny,” portray border agents as monsters, brand parents at school board meetings as extremists, and liken Republican officials to Hitler. That constant drumbeat dehumanizes political opponents and creates a climate where violence can be rationalized.
