Staff Reports
A cold-blooded sniper attack on an ICE facility in Dallas on September 24, 2025 left detainees dead and others gravely wounded, and it should be a wake-up call for every American who still believes in law and order. Authorities recovered an unused bullet and shell casings engraved with anti-ICE messages, signaling that this was not random violence but an ideologically driven act.
Vice President J.D. Vance responded the only way a leader who respects the victims and the rule of law can—he called out the political class and the pundits who normalize violent rhetoric instead of condemning it. When a former Obama aide and others tried to downplay or nitpick the facts, Vance shot back bluntly on social media, asking what part of the evidence they dispute and refusing to pretend this was anything other than targeted hostility toward federal law enforcement.
Make no mistake: Vance’s language was raw because the situation demands rawness. For years coastal elites and anti-enforcement politicians have trafficked in dehumanizing rhetoric about ICE and border agents, and when you demonize people, you remove the restraint from the fringe who will act on that poison. Americans who still believe in common sense and safety will applaud a leader who says plainly that those who stoke violence have no place in civil discourse.
The left’s reflexive victim-blaming and performance of civility only after their side is cornered is a double standard that ordinary patriots can see through. Gavin Newsom’s sarcastic social-media jabs and the media’s preoccupation with process over victims prove the point: when words have consequences, the left looks the other way until it suits them to point fingers. Vance named names and held people accountable in public, a rare and necessary refusal to let this atrocity be flattened into yet another abstract debate.
This moment should spark real action, not more press releases. We need decisive federal investigations, prosecutions for politically motivated attacks, and clear policies that protect federal officers and detainees alike from politically inspired violence. Political leaders who cheer or excuse attacks on law enforcement must be ostracized from mainstream discourse until they make a sincere and enforceable break from the militant rhetoric they’ve tolerated.
Patriots know leadership isn’t about empty pleas for civility when your own side is safe; it’s about standing up for the vulnerable and refusing to normalize barbarism. J.D. Vance’s bluntness resonated because it cut through the usual equivocation and told the truth: targeting our immigration officers and the people in federal custody is an attack on the rule of law and on the safety of everyday Americans. If Washington won’t protect those who protect the country, then voters must demand leaders who will.
Pray for the victims and demand justice, but don’t let the moment be stolen by media narratives that prefer nuance over accountability. The only honorable response for conservatives and every patriot is to back the men and women enforcing our laws, to call out dangerous rhetoric wherever it comes from, and to make clear that in this country there are consequences for inciting violence.
