Liberals believe a lot of crap about firearms like guns act on their own or that plastic accessories increase their lethality. They also don’t think good guys with guns can stop bad guys with guns and that guns in schools make students less safe, but that was proven wrong yesterday when an armed school resource officer stopped a potential mass shooting. Yet another liberal narrative bit the dust this week when an ISIS sympathizer convicted on gun crimes revealed he planned on shooting up a church because it was a gun-free zone.

Khalil Abu Rayyan is a pizza delivery driver/ISIS wannabe from Dearborn Heights, MI who was convicted last year on federal gun charges. He received the relatively stiff punishment of 5-10 years because he was infatuated with radical islamic terrorism and was planning to carry out an attack. This week a federal judge upheld his conviction and sentence because he’s clearly a threat to society.

This is from the court documents:

Rayyan had an affinity for the Islamic State (sometimes known as ISIS or ISIL) and showed it by watching online content that glorified its exploits. He watched one video entitled “Kill them wherever you find them” five times, and he called it “the best one yet.” He featured a photo depicting a jihad-inspired execution on his Twitter account. And he requested links to videos depicting Islamic State fighters throwing prisoners from the tops of buildings. Watching them “made [his] day.” Over time, his apparent sympathy for Islamic State propaganda ran the risk of inspiring real-world action. On one occasion, Rayyan posted a photo online showing him brandishing a pistol in one hand while making a pro-Islamic State hand gesture with the other.

The FBI took notice of Rayyan and began to surveil him. He bought a handgun and lied on the background check form and then tried but failed to purchase a rifle and that’s basically what he was convicted of. But then there is this interesting bit of information:

Soon after, an undercover FBI employee posing as a 19-year-old woman who sympathized with the Islamic State messaged him. Rayyan told the agent a number of disturbing things. He claimed that he had “planned out” an attack on a large church near where he worked and described making preparations. He thought the church would make a good target because “people are not allowed to carry guns in church,” and “it would make the news.”

Hmm, he was going to attack a church because nobody there would be armed? That’s just another way of saying that he picked a gun-free zone so he would face no armed resistance and could maximize his kill count.

Luckily this POS never got to carry out his church shooting, but it sure does put a damper on a big liberal line of BS. Mass shootings always occur in places where good people are not allowed to carry firearms for protection (schools, movie theaters, churches, etc…) People who support the 2nd Amendment always point this out and liberals counter that it’s preposterous to suggest that gun-free zones are mass shooter magnets. Well, here’s one potential mass shooter stating that the lack of guns in a church was his motivation for targeting it.

Liberals want to promote the idea that disarmed good people are safer than those who carry firearms in self-defense, which sounds a lot dumber when you say it out loud. In a perfect losing streak, the left is once again wrong in claiming that killers don’t specifically select gun-free zones for mass shootings. They do.

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