You read so much of your own bias into parent's comment it is not funny. Nowhere is it stated, explicitly or implicitly, that poster believes those events to be

You read so much of your own bias into parent's comment it is not funny. Nowhere is it stated, explicitly or implicitly, that poster believes those events to be valid justifications. His point is that in current American society, those events are used as justifications for restrictive laws, which is undeniably true.