Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts

7/08/2013

Chicago July 4th Weekend Shootings of Blacks Dwarf Sandy Hook, Media Uninterested

Posted by Brian

I don't celebrate this. It pisses me off. 74 people shot. 12 dead. Since Wednesday! Over 200 killed this year, or more than 1 per day.  Yet the media are virtually silent, concentrating instead on a San Francisco plane crash that killed two people. Perhaps the fact that the vast majority of the Chicago victims are black has something to do with it.

In Newtown, Adam Lanza killed 26 people, including 20 children, and the media goes ballistic.  The media also had a field day with the shootings in Aurora, CO, and at Columbine.  The common theme among those shootings is that the victims were white.

The vast majority of the people dying on the streets of Chicago, Detroit, Washington, DC, and many other gun control meccas is that the victims are black or another minority. Plus, it's not white people killing blacks. It's black on black crime.  This doesn't fit the media for a good story.  Tip for the media: The story is not the race of the people being killed, or who's doing the killing.  It's the horrendous numbers of people being killed as a direct result of strict gun control laws.

Chicago's (and New York's, Washington, DC, etc...) gun control laws, touted by politicians and so-called experts as a blueprint or the rest of the country, prove time and again that they do not make Chicagoan's safer, but actually make people targets for the criminal element who do have guns.

While Obama and the rest of the leftists in this country try to make it harder and harder for law-abiding citizens to get firearms and ammunition for their own protection, those cities where they have been successful with strict gun control laws look like shooting galleries for the criminals.
Meanwhile, in places where concealed carry is lawful, and law abiding citizens are able to own and obtain firearms easily, crime statistics plummet.  It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out the connection.
We as citizens need to start pointing out the hypocrisy, and complicity, of the media in keeping Americans ignorant of the real statistics and deadly results of gun control laws.


74 People Shot 12 Killed In Chicago Weekend Violence 
July 8, 2013 10:14 AM
Reporting Nikki

Chicago Police, concealed weapons laws, Death, government, holiday weekend, illegal guns, injured, killed, murder, r.i.p., RIP, shot to death  It never ends.  Same sad story.
All this violence happened since Wednesday and through the holiday weekend.  The government is working so hard with its concealed weapons laws right now and seem to be missing a big point.  The ILLEGAL guns are killing the majority of people in out country.
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1/15/2013

DC Prosecutor: Gun Ban Had "Unintended Effect" of Emboldened Criminals,Higher Crime.

Posted by Brian

A former prosecutor from Washington, DC warns that the gun bans that were in place in the Nation's Capitol led to emboldened criminals, along with higher crime and murder rates, after its implementation.  Conversely, after the law was struck down, and people were allowed to own firearms for home protection, murder rates in D.C. decreased 53%.
So, what's that argument about guns causing crime?

Jeffrey Scott Shapiro: A Gun Ban That Misfired 

What I saw as a prosecutor in Washington, D.C., makes me wary of strict firearms laws.

By JEFFREY SCOTT SHAPIRO
In the wake of the horrific elementary-school shootings in Newtown, Conn., last month, many Americans, desperate to do something in response, have decided that much stricter gun control is the answer. Democrats have proposed reinstating the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein has proposed legislation that would even restrict the use of some semiautomatic handguns.

As a former prosecutor in Washington, D.C., who enforced firearms and ammunition cases while a severe local gun ban was still in effect, I am skeptical of the benefits that many imagine will result from additional gun-control efforts. I dislike guns, but I believe that a nationwide firearms crackdown would place an undue burden on law enforcement and endanger civil liberties while potentially increasing crime.

The D.C. gun ban, enacted in 1976, prohibited anyone other than law-enforcement officers from carrying a firearm in the city. Residents were even barred from keeping guns in their homes for self-defense.
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12/26/2012

Gun Crime Up 89% in Handgun Banning UK, Piers Morgan Still Here

Posted by Brian
I guess Piers Morgan didn't have the time to check the UK stats before making his asinine comments, and calling his guest "not very smart".  Asshat.

Piers Morgan:  Still pissed about 1776?

Culture of violence: Gun crime goes up by 89% in a decade 
By JAMES SLACK UPDATED: 03:42 EST, 27 October 2009

Gun crime has increased five-fold in some parts of the UK Gun crime has almost doubled since Labour came to power as a culture of extreme gang violence has taken hold.  The latest Government figures show that the total number of firearm offences in England and Wales has increased from 5,209 in 1998/99 to 9,865 last year  -  a rise of 89 per cent.

In some parts of the country, the number of offences has increased more than five-fold.

In eighteen police areas, gun crime at least doubled.
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12/17/2012

Murders Of School-Age Children DOWN 42% Since 1993

Posted by Brian

In spite of statistical evidence that the murder of children is down 42% over the last 17 years, liberal hysteria over the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary is causing lawmakers and news anchors to call for everything from even stricter gun laws to the outright banning and confiscation of so-called assault weapons. This, despite the fact that Connecticut, where the shootings occurred, has some of the strictest gun laws in the country.  This despite the fact that the killer did not use an assault weapon, but a pistol. This, despite the fact that stricter gun laws do NOT correlate to lower murder or crime rates, and in fact often lead to higher crime and murder rates.
But don't expect them to let statistics, common sense, or the U.S. Constitution stand in their way of trying.


DOJ: Murders of School-Age Children Down 42%; Only 1% Take Place at School 
By Terence P. Jeffrey December 17, 2012

(CNSNews.com) - Murders of school-age children---those between the ages of 5 and 18—declined by 42 percent between the 1992-93 school year and the 2008-2009 school year, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, and only about 1 percent of the school age children murdered during the 2008-2009 school year were murdered at school.

In February 2012, the Bureau of Justice Statistics published a report—“Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2011”—that included statistics on homicides committed at schools for the school years from 1992-93 through 2009-2010. The report also included the total number of all school-age children who were murdered at school or elsewhere from the 1992-93 school year through the 2008-2009 school year.
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Soledad O'Brien: Pro-Gun Crime Statistics "Boggle My Mind"

Posted by Brian


The anti-gun hysteria over the Connecticut elementary school shootings is in full panic mode, and none is more irrational, or immune to facts and statistics than the ever-argumentative and condescending Soledad O'Brien.  Despite being presented with numerous examples of how gun-free zones have been, without exception, been the targets of all of the major multiple victim shooting sprees in the country since the 1950's, or that the worst school shooting have occurred in the country with one of the most restrictive gun laws in the world, Germany, O'Brien's response? It doesn't matter. 'Guns bad'.
She is a perfect example of the liberal mindset.  Facts don't matter.  Thinking is not a requirement.  Disengage the brain and react to all things emotionally.  It's the "good intentions" that matter.  That the same thing will continue to happen as a result of my feel-good liberal policies is not the point.  The point is that I feel good about myself, because I care.   And anyone who doesn't agree with me is a cold, heartless, irrational SOB.

CHALLENGE TO GUN CONTROL NARRATIVE RESULTS IN SOLEDAD O'BRIEN MELTDOWN
by JOHN NOLTE  17 Dec 2012, 6:08 AM PDT

CNN's Soledad O'Brien invited author and frequent Breitbart News contributor, John Lott, to come on her show this morning. It's pretty obvious that his recent appearances on other CNN shows, where he advocated for fewer gun control laws, had made her angry and that she saw this as an opportunity to take a whack at him.
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5/01/2012

Race Hustlers Sharpton and Jackson Have Blood On Their Hands

Posted by Brian

A beating at Church and Brambleton

By Michelle Washington The Virginian-Pilot © May 1, 2012 

Wave after wave of young men surged forward to take turns punching and kicking their victim.  

The victim's friend, a young woman, tried to pull him back into his car. Attackers came after her, pulling her hair, punching her head and causing a bloody scratch to the surface of her eye. She called 911. A recording told her all lines were busy. She called again. Busy. On her third try, she got through and, hysterical, could scream only their location.  



Race-Hustlers Sharpton and Jackson Have Blood On Their Hands 

A black teen beats a white teen in Chicago. In Toledo, Ohio a 78 year old white man is attacked and beaten by a gang of black teens. In Alabama, 20 black males beat a white male with pipes, chairs, and brass knuckles, leaving him in critical condition.  These are but just a few incidents that have happened in the past few months regarding black-on-white crime.

What is their connection? In all of the attacks, the thugs have claimed that the beating was justice "for Trayvon Martin". The 'race-hustlers' message has resonated.

The New York Times, who in their zeal to create a national story, sensationalized the tragic killing of Trayvon Martin by intentionally inserting a racial component, where no evidence of this being a racially-motivated attack exists. The Times even created a new term to forward their agenda: "White Hispanic". Black-on-black, black-on-white, hispanic-on-black, et.al., just doesn't have the ratings potential as a white-on-black crime, even if they have to invent a new type of "white". Since the initial report from the NYT, a rash of recent black-on-white attacks has created racial tensions not seen since the late sixties.

The fact that George Zimmerman, who is half Peruvian, had a "white sounding" name and was relatively light-skinned, was enough for the Times to find a racial component and create a firestorm to sell papers for the financially struggling paper.  For the mainstream media, this was enough to go out and stoke the racial fires even more.  Editing 911 audio to give the appearance that George Zimmerman was after Martin because he was black, rather than because it was late, he felt he looked suspicious, or that the neighborhood he lived in had experienced a recent rash of break-ins, the media ratcheted up their template that no amount of evidence, or lack thereof, that this was a white-on-black crime, and that it was racially motivated.  It was, and is, total bulls**t, and they know it. Controversy sells

This of course led to publicity whores Al "Crown Heights" Sharpton and Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson leading rallies, and stoking the fires of racial division even higher. Instead of calling for calm and waiting for all of the evidence to come out (which we still don't know all the facts), Sharpton, Jackson, the New Black Panthers, and the media have played the role of judge and jury, already convicting Zimmerman.

This sets the stage for a Rodney King-like situation if a jury, after actually having seen and heard the evidence (which legal experts have called flimsy), acquits George Zimmerman. Many of us can recall the video of Reginald Denny being pulled from his truck, and having his head caved in with a concrete block by Damian "Football" Williams. His crime: being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

At every turn, whether it be Sharpton, Jackson, or the President, when given the opportunity, and there have been many, to dial back the rhetoric and the emotions associated with this, they have stoked the emotions even higher.  President Obama, when given the opportunity to speak, didn't call for cooler heads to prevail, as a leader would (and should), but made the now famous asinine remark that if he "had a son, he would look like Trayvon". Pure political drivel which did nothing to dampen the rising emotions.

If the jury fails to convict George Zimmerman, and many think that is probable based on an indictment that overreaches on the 2nd-degree murder charge, riots such as we saw in L.A. in 1992 may break out around the country.  If they do, this will be the legacy of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and President Obama in the Trayvon Martin case. When given the opportunity to do the right thing, personal fame and fortune won out once again.