In a move that would be comical if it weren’t so predictable, German leftists are now floating the idea that Russia orchestrated last week’s Islamist terror attack on Berlin’s Pride Parade—because apparently the only way their preferred narrative survives is if every inconvenient act of violence is secretly a Kremlin plot. Rather than confront the uncomfortable reality that radical Islam remains the most consistent source of anti-LGBT violence in Europe, these lawmakers would rather blame a foreign adversary to protect their open-border, de-policed vision of society. It’s a familiar pattern: when progressive policies produce predictable results, the blame is always shifted outward, never inward.

For the 2A community, this episode is a textbook example of why the right to keep and bear arms matters. When governments prioritize optics over honest security assessments, citizens are left vulnerable. The same political class that reflexively blames “Russia” for an Islamist attack is the same one that insists only the state should have guns—while simultaneously failing to secure borders or confront ideological threats. Armed citizens, by contrast, don’t need to wait for politicians to assign the correct villain; they can respond to threats in real time. The German reaction isn’t just political theater—it’s a warning about what happens when a society trades individual responsibility for collective delusion.