By John Boch via TTAG
“Celebrities” will do the darnedest things to virtue signal for a little love from their low-information fanbases (and get their names mentioned again). Retired porn star Mia Khalifa sought fifteen more minutes of fame yesterday with the help of the Austin, Texas Police Department. Following the Santa Fe High School shooting, she very publicly surrendered her shotgun to a police officer for destruction. “They couldn’t have made it easier,” she wrote on Instagram.
Yes, the now-retired porn star with the tattoo of a Derringer under her right arm (we’ll let you verify that yourself) used the dead kids in Santa Fe as props for her pathetic, empty gesture. No wonder the veteran cop put on a tentative smile as as she shook his hand and posed for a photo.
courtesy instagram.com
Here’s the full text of her message:
It’s symbolic and small, but it’s still something. I urge you to #DoSomething as well. @austin_police couldn’t have made it any easier, if you want to turn in your weapon for safe destruction, call your local police department, they will come pick it up. Or transport it in the trunk of your car and have them come out to retrieve it at the station.
I will be donating the gun’s value of $1,500 to the @everytown organization. I want to iterate that I am not against the 2nd amendment. I am against children dying. My empty gun rack is a small price to pay when some parents are living with an empty bed in their children’s rooms.
Please open your mind, I certainly have. A year ago I posted a picture in this exact room the day I purchased this weapon (in under 10 minutes on my way to grab lunch) and cited self defense as the reason for it. It has not made me feel safer, it has not helped me in any way, it has not done anything but sit on a rack and collect dust. This is my minuscule contribution of solidarity for all the victims of school shootings.
Claiming a Remington 870 Express bird gun (I’m not even sure it’s a Remmy…could be a knockoff) goes for $1500 seems like a stretch. But anything to get her name back in the news.
Remember the goofball who donated his Ruger 10/22 “machine gun” to the police after the Mandalay Bay massacre?
Yeah, the same one who then said he got death threats for his virtue signalling post. He claimed he had to hire armed security to defend his business and a bought a Louisville “slugger” to defend his family at home as a result of his newfound notoriety.
Death threats are nothing new to Ms. Khalifa, which may be why she bought the shotgun in the first place. Seems the losers at ISIS HQ didn’t appreciate her “performing” while wearing a hijab.
The New York Post covered that story:
ISIS threatened to kill porn star Mia Khalifa for having sex in hijab
Former porn star Mia Khalifa recalled the shocking threats she received after filming a scene where she had sex wearing a hijab.
Khalifa, 25, had only been in the porn industry a few months when a director told her she would be required to wear the traditional headpiece in a scene, she said.
She knew it wouldn’t sit well with the public.
“I said to him, ‘You’re going to get me f–king killed,’” she told BBC Radio’s 5 Live.
When asked why she didn’t say no, Khalifa said: “Being 21, I didn’t know that I could speak up.”
The scene made Khalifa the No. 1-ranked performer on Pornhub, but also drew the attention of ISIS.
In fact, it was the ISIS threat that prompted Khalifa to quit the porn industry. Given that history, only a fool would publicly announce that she’s surrendered the only firearm she owns. Thankfully, ISIS doesn’t have a U.S. chapter, even in the liberal Mecca of Austin. However, there remain plenty of home-grown whack jobs out there who’d probably love to earn their own 15-minutes. Be safe, Ms. Khalifa.