Gun violence up in over-regulated cities

It seems that gun violence has moved into heavily regulated cities and away from lawful gun owners. In the nation’s capital, at this time last year there had been 73 homicides, as of September 1st, there had been 105, a 43.8% change. In Baltimore, last year had seen 144, but this year there have been 221 thus far – a 53% increase. There were 242 non-fatal shootings last year compared to 431 this year. A 78% increase.

You can see the most-recently published Chicago stats for yourself below and add these three to the final count;

I didn’t include Los Angeles where homicides increased by just one over last year’s 170 or St Louis which had a 100% increase from 2 to 4 homicides.

Here’s New York City’s stats which were last published early last month where they’re up 18 murders from the same time period last year. You can throw in a bystander that NYPD shot last week when they were shooting at an arms dealer;

In DC, Police Chief Cathy Lanier blamed “high capacity guns” for the shootings without being able to point to a single incident where a magazine holding more than ten rounds was used in the commission of a crime. When asked by EMily Miller of WTTG what she meant by high-capacity magazines, Lanier responded with some mumbling answer about “100 round drums”. I’m sure we would have heard about a 100-round drum being used in a crime in DC if it had happened. Besides, those drum magazines are already illegal in the District.

The Washington Post reports that more than a quarter of the 4000 police officers in DC have issued a warning, in the form of a no-confidence vote against the chief because they say she has stifled active policing of the city streets, while distracting the media with the high capacity magazine excuse.

In Chicago, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy blamed weak gun laws for the increased violence in his city back in July. I guess nearly banning guns in Chicago just doesn’t take gun control far enough.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake , on the other hand, blames gang activity for the violence in her city and she says that the “relationship between the police and the community is critical” and that her police force has taken 100% more illegal guns off the streets this year than last year. She says that white people are welcomed in her city, but, then she attacks the Republican Party as too white. She makes more sense than the leaders of the other cities, but then she crapped on it by making the politics of gun violence a racial issue. I’m pretty sure that white people aren’t bringing illegal guns for the black gangs in Baltimore.

In New York City, the Guardian Angels are back to patrolling the streets and parks, you know, it’s like Dinkins is mayor again and it’s the 90s.

I guess my point is that all four cities which are being oppressed by criminals this summer are also being oppressed by their governments who won’t admit to the failures of their own policies in regards to the crimes being committed in their streets. They are so married to their politics, that it takes precedence over the welfare of their communities, so nothing gets better. Nothing changes, and the folks trapped in these urban gulags suffer most and the Laniers, McCarthys, deBlasios and Blakes hide behind their own walls of armed protection.

By the way, in DC yesterday, a thirteen-year-old girl was shot three times in the legs while she was going home from the local library because she got caught in some random gunfire.

Category: Government Incompetence