JimBowie1958
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- Sep 25, 2011
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Too true.
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Pot? What's a little pot? Barry tells us he spent quite a bit of his life stoned out of his mind, and then moved on to the blow and he seems to have turned out alright.
Pot? What's a little pot? Barry tells us he spent quite a bit of his life stoned out of his mind, and then moved on to the blow and he seems to have turned out alright.
Ya think?
Huh?
O.K., lets have a conversation about gun control. If more gun control is all it takes to prevent tragedies, then Chicago ought to be the safest city in the United States as it has had the strictest municipal gun laws in the country for the past thirty years. Yet slightly more than halfway through 2012, more than 200 people have been killed in Chicago by gunfire. As March turned into April, 40 people were shot in Chicago in the space of 50 hours resulting in four fatalities. This past Memorial Day weekend, 12 people were killed and 45 were wounded by gunfire. During the course of that holiday weekend, there was one 90-minute span in which 13 people were shot. Last month, eight people were killed and 46 people were wounded in a single weekend. Over the weekend, three men were killed while 26 other people were wounded by gunfire. Three of the people who were wounded were 13-year-old boys. And what will be the tally next weekend? What about Labor Day weekend? What will the numbers be at the end of the year?
If the massacre in Colorado deserves a public conversation, then surely so does the ongoing violence in Chicago. Yet liberals arent so eager to have a public conversation about the fiefdom run by former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. There is little desire to focus attention on President Obamas old stomping grounds on Chicagos South Side where their policy prescriptions have not worked. Gun control in Chicago hasnt stopped people from illegally obtaining firearms nor has it stopped people from using them on one another.
For one thing, it puts liberals (particularly white liberals) in the uncomfortable position of drawing attention to the culture of African-American gang violence driven by the drug trade and the breakdown of the African-American family. It puts them into the position of passing negative judgment. White liberals certainly do not like to hear stories about black children being shot and killed in the crossfire, but theyre not willing to speak uncomfortable truths and risk being called racists. For all their abhorrence of guns, liberals keep silent and accept inner city violence as an immutable fact of life.
O.K., lets have a conversation about gun control. If more gun control is all it takes to prevent tragedies, then Chicago ought to be the safest city in the United States as it has had the strictest municipal gun laws in the country for the past thirty years. Yet slightly more than halfway through 2012, more than 200 people have been killed in Chicago by gunfire. As March turned into April, 40 people were shot in Chicago in the space of 50 hours resulting in four fatalities. This past Memorial Day weekend, 12 people were killed and 45 were wounded by gunfire. During the course of that holiday weekend, there was one 90-minute span in which 13 people were shot. Last month, eight people were killed and 46 people were wounded in a single weekend. Over the weekend, three men were killed while 26 other people were wounded by gunfire. Three of the people who were wounded were 13-year-old boys. And what will be the tally next weekend? What about Labor Day weekend? What will the numbers be at the end of the year?
If the massacre in Colorado deserves a public conversation, then surely so does the ongoing violence in Chicago. Yet liberals arent so eager to have a public conversation about the fiefdom run by former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. There is little desire to focus attention on President Obamas old stomping grounds on Chicagos South Side where their policy prescriptions have not worked. Gun control in Chicago hasnt stopped people from illegally obtaining firearms nor has it stopped people from using them on one another.
For one thing, it puts liberals (particularly white liberals) in the uncomfortable position of drawing attention to the culture of African-American gang violence driven by the drug trade and the breakdown of the African-American family. It puts them into the position of passing negative judgment. White liberals certainly do not like to hear stories about black children being shot and killed in the crossfire, but theyre not willing to speak uncomfortable truths and risk being called racists. For all their abhorrence of guns, liberals keep silent and accept inner city violence as an immutable fact of life.
From Aurora to Chicago
Prostitution, Drug usage, Prohibition, Gambling.............
Laws do not prevent their occurence, neither will gun control laws.........
Next thing you know govt officials will be making it illegal to own knives, baseball bats, etc
Lets outlaw automobiles or prevent them from traveling at over 5 miles per hour
Lets outlaw abortion
Lets outlaw all dangerous sports...........
Besides we know how criminals adhere to those laws so closely
Surely morally superior bureaucrats can create a utopian society without risks, with the right regulatory central planning experts and funding.........