The co-founder of Home Depot was on Fox News talking about the terror in New York City yesterday, and he said something sure to make a lot of people angry, and a lot of either people laugh and cheer.
Ken Langone, who co-founded the home improvement superstore, was specifically referring to yesterday’s attack in New York City when he said this very reasonable thing:
“Nothing proves to me more than this experience that we need to know who’s here with us. How the hell can we just say, ‘Come on in and we don’t care how you got in here and we don’t care where you’re from or what you did or what your background was’?”
As an argument for solid vetting of immigrants and refugees, this is a no-brainer statement. It may not have the polish that the left wants when discussing things, but it is unassailably reasonable. If you don’t know anything about the people who come here, then you don’t know what people are here. That’s pure logic.
It was a different remark that will really get fannies in slings, though. Watch:
“Look. there’s nuts in the world. You know, we have mass murders, remember Kaczynsk, the guy that was the Unabomber – we have enough screwballs in America without importing them.
Again, though, pretty hard to argue with that. What would be the counter-argument? How does a liberal counter it? Do they defend the terrorist in NYC yesterday against being called a “screwball? Would they argue that mass murderers don’t exist here? Or that they aren’t screwballs? Would they defend Timothy McVeigh?
We do have enough screwballs, don’t we? We don’t need to import them, do we?
Makes sense to me.