Louisiana Voice

Clay Higgins as Batman’s Bruce Wayne: here to save Gotham City

So, where has Clay Higgins been all this time?

The U.S. representative from Louisiana’s 3^rd Congressional District has been strangely slow to speak out about 44 separate mass shootings in which at least five persons died in the U.S. since he first took office in 2017.

The worst of these, the Paradise, Nevada massacre that left 60 dead and 867 people injured, elicited not a peep from Mr. Law and Order. Nor did the 26 deaths in the Sutherland Springs, Texas, church shootings in November 2017. Crickets.

Or the 23 killed in the El Paso in August 2019. Yawn.

Nor did the 21 killed in the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas in May 2011 prompt the Cajun John Wayne to speak out against gun violence. Not his problem

Neither did the 19 killed in the Lewiston, Maine in October 2023, or the 17 murdered in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida in February 2018. Boring.

All total, in the 8 ½ years Higgins has been ensconced inside the Beltway, no fewer than 433 human beings have lost their lives in those mass shootings. I’ll save you the trouble to calculating the average casualty count: it’s 9.8 deaths per incident, or 51 deaths per year since he’s been in office.

Yet, through all that carnage, we never heard a sound from the former deputy sheriff public information officer.

Until Charlie Kirk was killed last week. Now, as the Louisiana Illuminator so succinctly put it, Higgins is pursuing his “atypical” quest for political relevance by suddenly rising up and proclaiming that anyone who “belittled the assassination of Charlie Kirk” should be banded from social media for life, kicked out of school, fired, or have driver’s licenses and/or business permits revoked – which penalty might apply.

Ironically, it was on social media that he posted the message, “There are societal limits to the freedom of speech.”

Apparently, those limits do not apply to Donald Trump who during the 2016 presidential campaign, hinted that the “Second Amendment” might be appropriate solution for Hillary Clinton. It also must have not applied when he urged his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021 to storm the U.S. Capitol or when he told Russia to “do what the hell you want” in regards to Ukraine.

No one is to “belittle” Charlie Kirk but it’s okay for Trump to wistfully dream about making the West Bank into a resort getaway even as Israel obliterates its buildings and murders innocent children.

It was Kirk himself who, when locked out of Twitter, said, “We are seeing right now that Big Tech has become the enforcement and the communication arm of the Biden campaign and the Democrat Party.”

“There’s free speech and then there’s hate speech,” sniffed Attorney General Pam Bondi, as if there existed some sort of clear definitive line that separated the two. After all, free speech to one might well be hate speech to another. Who decides?

I hope not Clay Higgins, who said, “If they ran their mouth with their smartass hatred celebrating the heinous murder of that beautiful young man who dedicated his whole life to delivering respectful conservative truth into the hearts of liberal enclave universities, armed only with a Bible and a microphone and a constitution… those profiles must come down.”

As I said in my first paragraph, where the righteous hell has Clay Higgins been while those 433 men, women and children – especially the children – were being slaughtered?