December 26, 2006

Baltimore’s Skyrocketing Murder Total

Filed under: Uncategorized — Administrator @ 8:01 pm

Looks like we’ve outdone 2005.

Gun control sure is working well here, isn’t it? (I know, it’s the holidays, not the season for biting sarcasm and nastiness toward your political opponents…so sue me).

Anyone watch The Wire this season? Remember the season finale, when Colvin shakes his head and grumbles after his successful small class program is nixed by the education brass? Remember what he says? “When does it actually change?” I know what he’s feeling at that point–you just have to wonder, how long can you keep pursuing a policy that is so demonstrably not doing anything worthwhile? What does it take to get the powers that be to cough it up and admit their mistake?

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  1. Insanaity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. We have seen examples of this in the “War on Poverty” and the “War on Guns”. The rational that suggests that if one law does not work but an additional one will is madness. This is akin to attempting to solve a speeding problem by lowering the speed limit. We have to get over the mindset that gun control has anything to do with crime control. It is about people control. Now the socia*list that was running Baltimore will be running the state. My house is sold. I am outta here. You guys have to deal with MOM - my condolences. As far as admitting the mistake, never happen. The lack of results related to any previous laws will be used as a platform to pass even more stringent laws. Since when have restrictions been relaxed and politicians admitted a failed policy? See the War on Poverty comment in the first paragraph. They will keeep restricting, passing laws, regulating until we have no freedom whatsoever. They have this power because the people elect, and legislators pass laws, out of fear; fear of bodily harm, fear of not having enough money in the bank, fear of not having enough food on the table, fear of retirement cushions. We need a 180 degree mindset. We need to elect and legislate not out of fear but out of freedom. The freedom to do it ourselves not depend on the state. However, this freedom comes with responsibilities. The more responsibilities and freedoms the people have the less they will need the government. This will negate the power and the necessiity and the importance of the government. For this reason we will not see elections and legislation from the prospective of freedom. In order for the primacy of the state to continue, fear and lack of personal responsibility must continue to control our government and electorate. Karl Marx would be proud of the progress his “usefull idiots (V.I. Lenins’ words) have made in this area to further socia*lism toward communism. It will continue until we return to the concept that governments exist to protect the individual freedoms of the people.

    Comment by Richard — December 27, 2006 @ 9:16 am

  2. If it’s any consolation, murders in NYC are climbing–which only means Bloomie will be blaming anyone else.
    http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/pct/cspdf.html

    Ho, ho, ho. That was not an expression of holiday cheer. It was a roll call for Bloomie, Guiliani and Pataki.

    Comment by Ken Grubb — December 27, 2006 @ 5:23 pm

  3. “We have to get over the mindset that gun control has anything to do with crime control.”

    Richard, I couldn’t agree more.

    Comment by Zak J. — January 5, 2007 @ 4:34 pm

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