Despite their stellar Brady Campaign grade, we’ve seen yet another multiple shooting spree in California.

When is it going to sink in that gun control laws don’t prevent the crazy among us from being crazy? And that people who aren’t afraid of life in jail or death don’t care what the law says?

Looks like an unfortunate case of young people not respecting life and attempting to murder other young people. I’m sure you’ll hear calls for more gun control (naturally, it’s what you do instead of something). But I’d be surprised to learn the firearms in question were obtained legally as it is today.

Young, stupid, worthless people will be young, stupid, worthless people. How about some parent control instead of gun control?

Check out Lefty With a Gun; hat tip to Don for linking it on that notorious time-waster social networking site we all love.

Being at odds with your fellow RKBA-heads on other social and economic issues can be a lonely place. But our work is crucial work: it’s imperative the RKBA isn’t allowed to be viewed as a lefty vs. righty issue.

I have a hearing on July1st about Trashawn and his mother’s actions. Maybe we’ll get lucky and they’ll FTA and we get an instant warrant. Better yet, maybe they’ll show and we’ll get a final order that really hamstrings his ability to be a pain in our neighborhood’s collective neck. He’s on probation and has a gun charge pending, we may even see him remanded somehow or removed from his waste-of-space (and she’s wasting a LOT of space, let me tell ya) mother’s care.

Meantime, Baltimore John Watch is becoming Pigtown John Watch; the person who set up the original site and owned the domain name got a job as a police officer, and for obvious reasons the site had to come down. (One of the possible ramifications of me trying to get a job flying Foxtrot for BPD might be PGP having to go into retirement…cross that bridge when I have a 1000+ hours in my logbook.) We’re reconstituting the site because the guy who’s heading up the resurgent vice efforts in the Southern District asked me to–they love it, and assure me that unlike before…ANY license plate that shows up on my site will be getting a Dear John letter back home.

Imagine your wife getting such a letter when the mail comes and you’re out at “work”.

The hookers almost solely drive the drug trade; they came back when BJW went away. If we can get rid of them for good, the drug trade will dry up and we can get back to working on trash and nuisance properties owned by slumlords. Give it 12 months, and you won’t recognize Pigtown.

Feeling optimistic.

Here’s the story and a link to the video (on the right) from our appearance on Channel 2 last night. Man, I need to move to where allergens aren’t such a problem; Maryland, in addition to being the 2nd most crime ridden state in the union, is usually rated the worst for air quality…and the bags under my eyes are the evidence that every pollen molecule in the world seems to find it’s way to Baltimore.

Other notes…if you look carefully, a baggy long sleeve T-shirt does not conceal a full sized Glock .40SW pistol despite my IWB holster.

You’ll see our buddy Trashawn Johnson (DOB 3/18/93, known sex offender) making a trigger finger gesture and hear him say he’s going to kill me as soon as he catches me slipping. And you’ll see the mother of the year and her response to her son’s actions.

They’re running the Pigtown footage they took last week, including our buddy Trashawn threatening to shoot me apparently. We’ll see how they spin this–big mean white guy picking on downtrodden youth…or hardened criminal threatening law abiding citizen trying to do the right thing.

My hope is they’re going to realize that they’ll get more mileage pointing out how poorly Baltimore protects the good guys from the bad guys then they will trying the same old thugs are people too moral equivalency baloney you usually see in the media.

When the bad guys do it in places where the good guys are allowed to defend themselves, the results have a much better chance of turning out positively.

By way of contrast, Twitter reports via FB that two people were carjacked and shot in North Baltimore last night.

The bad guys have a distinct tactical advantage here in MD.

Channel 2 News followed us around, took some footage of the areas where the drug dealers in question were operating, and then asked to see areas where gang graffiti might be found. Naturally, we took them to the 1100 Block of Carroll Street, where there had been a shooting recently.

Surely as the sun rises in the east and Rosie O’Donnell rises for a doughnut, our buddy Trashawn was there (he’s already got a rap sheet longer than Al Capone’s at the tender age of 16). He launched into the camera man with all sorts of invective…and then saw me.

On camera, with the news media watching, he told the world that he was going “shoot me in the head” and I was “gonna be dead as soon as [I] slip.”

Then his mother, a clear candidate for mother of the year, came along and did the same, and nearly assaulted the camera man.

Bad day to be a news guy in Baltimore.

So our community association’s president has entirely too much free time, but I like what he’s doing with it. He made a video designed to lean on BPD and the Mayor’s office in re: some of the nastier characters polluting our neighborhood. The hope is using the Internet and technology to shed light on the worst offenders in Pigtown will help net more results in squeaky-wheel-getting-the-grease fashion.

It’s certainly netted us some media attention; we’ll be on Channel 2 news tonight to discuss the videos and our efforts. The problem is…Pigtown just isn’t that violent. My Southern District Operations unit buddies are tied up all day and night in Cherry Hill and Brooklyn Park, where a body is being dropped every other day, instead of once or twice a year in Pigtown.

The reality is, at least to my way of thinking, that you can’t save everyone and every area of Baltimore. I’d rather see BPD spend it’s efforts helping save areas like Pigtown that can be saved and then work on polishing the brass on the Titanic that is the problem in Baltimore’s worst neighborhoods.

Plaxico Burress’s gun case is on ESPN News right now; what a mess. Bloomie on the screen saying that anyone caught with a handgun should get an automatic 3.5 year sentence. Seems silly, so much fuss over something petty. Shouldn’t that hefty sentence be levied on CRIMINALS who carry guns and not private citizens who want to defend themselves (it’s well established based on recent attacks on football players and other celebrities that they are indeed targets)? 40+ states let people carry all day long and nothing bad happens–why should NYC get to have laws so detached from the reality that letting people defend themselves isn’t really a problem, let alone something that warrants a longer jail term than people get for robbery and felony assault? On the other hand…the law is the law, even an unjust, immoral law is still a law and I certainly wouldn’t support a celebrity getting more lenient treatment than the rest of us would get in a similar situation (though I suspect Plax is getting harsher treatment than John Q Taxpayer would get in similar circumstances since Bloomie’s minions in the DA’s office probably want to avoid the impression that they’re going soft on the guy because he helped them win a Super Bowl).

No doubt Plax is a dummy–given his wealth and connections, if he wanted a carry permit, he probably could have gotten one under NYC’s corrupt, “rich and connected people are more worthy of self defense” scheme.

Needless to say the nuances of how ridiculous NYC’s gun laws are vis a vis this story are lost on the dolts in front of the ESPN camera; Bloomberg’s royal fiat in NYC continues. I wonder how many more terms he can afford with his billions…