HotAir has a piece today on how support for maniac cop/cop-killer & murderer Chris Dorner has gone mainstream. But the highlight is Katie Pavlich going after some leftist crapweasel who supports Dorner. A quick cut to those highlights:
In a totally unrelated coincidence that has absolutely nothing at all to do with why I posted this and had no impact whatsoever on why I would make a decision to post this, it’s Valentine’s Day.
So Happy Valentine’s Day.
While this is a tiny sampling over at PoliceOne, it’s interesting to see nonetheless.
One of the posters there mentioned he had worked in a place that had a total gun ban – Jamaica. The story of Jamaican gun control is rather interesting, especially from an American expat’s point of view. More broadly, ricketyclick made these observations about Jamaican gun control years ago:
Since 1974 Jamaica has had in place some of the toughest gun laws in the world. They are simply banned for 99% of the population; officially anyway. The very rich can pay a police chief to authorize issuance of a revolver and a box of rounds. But for the great majority of Jamaicans guns are officially out of reach. The penalty for unauthorized possession of any firearm is an automatic life sentence…no appeal…no parole. You get picked up today, and by next week you’re starting your sentence.
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“Imagine a world without guns!” shriek the peaceful ones, the non-violent, the pure, the liberal, the good-intentioned.
Always before, I’ve answered: Don’t have to imagine it, we know what a world without guns looks like. It looks like most of human history, ruled by big strong male testosterone monsters who have nothing better to do than practice with their swords and engage in plunder and rape and mass-murder of entire villages, limited only by other sword-wielding testosterone monsters defending their private reserves. Then came the Kentucky Long Rifle, and Samuel Colt, and the sainted John Moses Browning, and all of a sudden, farmers and philosophers, cute girls and little old ladies, and even grouchy old cripples in wheel chairs could hold their own against the swordsmen.
Now I can add, We have Jamaica.
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…They expedite gun crime cases, cause they have so many. They’ve had to set up a special court that only handles gun crime; called appropriately enough “Gun Court”.
It’s been thiry-five years since these laws were put in place. I recently saw some crime statistics from Kingston and they showed that city’s population of just over 800,000 had about 1,400 murders last year; most of them…by gunfire.
The law can be made no tougher, unless you execute the lawbreaker. Yet it hasn’t worked. Thirty-five years, and it hasn’t worked! The police have guns. The rich and politicians have guns, or armed bodyguards. The Jamaican Army has guns. The criminals have guns. The political thugs have guns.
The ONLY group in Jamaica that has no guns: The law-abiding citizenry!
Nice to see that it’s being reported a bit more.
LAPD Spree Killer’s Supposed Full Manifesto Shows Support For Gun Control And President Obama
Police asked a Los Angeles Fox affiliate to remove the manifesto, originally reported to be that of alleged gunman Christopher Dorner, shortly after publishing.
The request from police indicates media outlets have been distributing and reporting on a highly edited version of the manifesto.
What’s missing are all the pro-leftist and pro-progressive talking points, already noted here and here.
Sooper Mexican has the whole thing (minus a bit of personal info). He notes that there are a lot of sections that disappeared from the mainstream media’s reporting. Some interesting highlights:
Mr. Vice President, do your due diligence when formulating a concise and permanent national AWB plan. Future generations of Americans depend on your plan and advisement to the president. I’ve always been a fan of yours and consider you one of the few genuine and charismatic politicians. Damn, sounds like an oxymoron calling you an honest politician. It’s the truth.
Hillary Clinton. You’ll make one hell of a president in 2016. Much like your husband, Bill, you will be one of the greatest. Look at Castro in San Antonio as a running mate or possible secretary of state. He’s (good people) and I have faith and confidence in him. Look after Bill. He was always my favorite President. Chelsea grew up to be one hell of an attractive woman. No disrespect to her husband.
Wayne LaPierre, President of the NRA, you’re a vile and inhumane piece of shit. You never even showed 30 seconds of empathy for the children, teachers, and families of Sandy Hook. You deflected any type of blame/responsibility and directed it toward the influence of movies and the media. You are a failure of a human being. May all of your immediate and distant family die horrific deaths in front of you.
Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough, Pat Harvey, Brian Williams, Soledad Obrien, Wolf Blitzer, Meredith Viera, Tavis Smiley, and Anderson Cooper, keep up the great work and follow Cronkite’s lead. I hold many of you in the same regard as Tom Brokaw and the late Peter Jennings. Cooper, stop nagging and berating your guest, they’re your (guest). Mr. Scarborough, we met at McGuire’s pub in P-cola in 2002 when I was stationed there. It was an honor conversing with you about politics, family, and life.If you continuously followed me while I was walking at dusk/night I would confront you as well. Too bad Trayvon didn’t smash your skull completely open, Zim.
If you had a well regulated AWB, this would not happen. The time is now to reinstitute a ban that will save lives. Why does any sportsman need a 30 round magazine for hunting? Why does anyone need a suppressor? Why does anyone need a AR15 rifle? This is the same small arms weapons system utilized in eradicating Al Qaeda, Taliban, and every enemy combatant since the Vietnam war. …
All the firearms utilized in my activities are registered to me and were legally purchased at gun stores and private party transfers. All concealable weapons (pistols) were also legally register in my name at police stations or FFL’s.
Unfortunately, are you aware that I obtained class III weapons (suppressors) without a background check thru NICS or DROS completely LEGALLY several times? I was able to use a trust account that I created on quicken will maker and a $10 notary charge at a mailbox etc. to obtain them legally. Granted, I am not a felon, nor have a DV misdemeanor conviction or active TRO against me on a NCIC file. I can buy any firearm I want, but should I be able to purchase these class III weapons (SBR’s, and suppressors) without a background check and just a $10 notary signature on a quicken will maker program? The answer is NO. I’m not even a resident of the state i purchased them in. Lock n Load just wanted money so they allow you to purchase class III weapons with just a notarized trust, military ID.
NFA and ATF need new laws and policies that do not allow loopholes such as this. In the end, I hope that you will realize that the small arms I utilize should not be accessed with the ease that I obtained them. Who in there right mind needs a fucking silencer!!! who needs a freaking SBR AR15? No one. No more Virginia Tech, Columbine HS, Wisconsin temple, Aurora theatre, Portland malls, Tucson rally, Newtown Sandy Hook. Whether by executive order or thru a bi-partisan congress an assault weapons ban needs to be re-instituted. Period!!!
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Mia Farrow said it best. “Gun control is no longer debatable, it’s not a conversation, its a moral mandate.”
Sen. Feinstein, you are doing the right thing in leading the re-institution of a national AWB. Never again should any public official state that their prayers and thoughts are with the family. That has become cliche’ and meaningless. Its time for action. Let this be your legacy that you bestow to America. Do not be swayed by obstacles, antagaonist, and naysayers. Remember the innocent children at Austin, Kent, Stockton, Fullerton, San Diego, Iowa City, Jonesboro, Columbine, Nickel Mines, Blacksburg, Springfield, Red Lake, Chardon, Aurora, and Newtown. Make sure this never happens again!!!
In my cache you will find several small arms. In the cache, Bushmaster firearms, Remington precision rifles, and AAC Suppressors (silencers). All of these small arms are manufactured by Cerberus/Freedom Group. The same company responsible for the Portland mall shooting, Webster , NY, and Sandy Hook massacre.
So he thinks he’ll be the madman that goes off and kills a whole lot of people to prove that if you trust anyone with guns, there will be murders. So because he decided to be a madman, a martyr for the cause, then the government must crack down on everyone. He complains about the LAPD being corrupt, but then decides to go on a murdering rampage… so he can make the LAPD more powerful. He’s a nut.
All it proves is you can’t trust cops or even military officers with guns, because they might go on some crazed manifesto-driven rampage and murder all kinds of people out of spite.
Whole thing can also be found at CrimeFileNews.
Update: He’s also got supporters now, who love that he went out and killed the daughter of his old captain… because murdering people who’ve done you no wrong is how the weakling powerless Sandy Hook shitbags of the world deal with their problems. Like Dorner, and like these assholes on Twitter.
He also notes he likes George W. Bush’s neocon-ness. So he’s a progressive, as well as a leftist race-card playing “I’m a victim” murdering shitbag who lashes out in a temper tantrum like Adam Lanza or Eric Harris or Dylan Klebold or any other of the petulant spree murderers he thinks he’s nothing like.
Update 3: Apparently nutbag Dorner sent this to CNN’s Anderson Cooper:
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May as well start with Weasel Zippers:
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police launched a massive manhunt Thursday for a former Los Angeles officer suspected of killing a couple over the weekend and opening fire on four officers early Thursday, killing one and critically wounding another, authorities said.
Monica Quan was one of the couple he killed. She was the daughter of a police captain he was mad at.
Update:Manhunt
The search for Christopher Dorner, who was fired from the Los Angeles Police Department in 2008 for making false statements, began after he was linked to the weekend killing in which one of the victims was the daughter of a former police captain who had represented him during those disciplinary proceedings.
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From WZ again:
From Christopher Dorner’s manifesto:
Anti-NRA:
Wayne LaPierre, President of the NRA, you’re a vile and inhumane piece of shit. You never even showed 30 seconds of empathy for the children, teachers, and families of Sandy Hook.
Loves Piers Morgan:
…give Piers Morgan an indefinite resident alien and Visa card. Mr. Morgan, the problem that many American gun owners have with you and your continuous discussion of gun control is that you are not an American citizen and have an accent that is distinct and clarifies that you are a foreigner. I want you to know that I agree with you 100% on enacting stricter firearm laws.
He’s super pro-Obama, and agian, very anti-gun.
Pro Gun Control:
Who in there right mind needs a fucking silencer!!! who needs a freaking SBR AR15? No one. No more Virginia Tech, Columbine HS, Wisconsin temple, Aurora theatre, Portland malls, Tucson rally, Newtown Sandy Hook. Whether by executive order or thru a bi-partisan congress an assault weapons ban needs to be re-instituted. Period!!!
Mia Farrow said it best. “Gun control is no longer debatable, it’s not a conversation, its a moral mandate.”
No better way to prove it than to go on a killing spree. Of course, he was a cop. He will be the authority figure who always has guns. Madmen will always be madmen, criminals will always have arms. And thus, he proves why we should never trust the state with a monopoly on arms.
Update: And now there are other victims, as the LAPD mistook women delivering papers for Dorner.
Update 2: HotAir has more.
Drudge has these three stories stacked together to tell a larger story this morning.
Armed Guard Disarmed Teen In Atlanta School Shooting
Atlanta • A student opened fire at his middle school Thursday afternoon, wounding a 14-year-old in the neck before an armed officer working at the school was able to get the gun away, police said.
Wayne LaPierre’s simple statement proves true again, and those who reject defense seem that much more foolish.
Georgia School Had Metal Detectors
ATLANTA (AP) — A middle school where a 14-year-old boy was shot and wounded in the neck by a fellow student had metal detectors, and school officials were investigating how the shooter made it past them.
At airports, we have metal detectors. The objective is to control points of entry to airports, and guarantee that most weapons are prevented from getting on the plane. The TSA’s intrusive measures and the treatment of everyone like a criminal (they even molest pilots who could fly the plane into the ground if they so chose) are somewhat akin to gun control – they focus on tools and not on people with ill intentions. But for the moment, let’s look at how they use metal detectors to deter weapons with metal parts from being brought onto airplanes. This is airport security:
See those big silver, gray, and black things? Those are metal detectors. See those other things that are varied colors up top, mostly blue in the middle, and black on the bottom, with a shiny spot on their top right corner? Those are guards. Some may be armed, some may not be armed. Some just act as screeners, some act as responders. The metal detector is just a tool. The person doing the guarding is what makes the difference.
So how could he get past the metal detectors? By walking. How did he get past the guards is what people should be asking.
An off-duty armed resource officer who was at the school was able to grab the gun away from the suspect, who was taken into custody. Charges against the shooter were pending, Campos said.
Or they should be asking why the guard who was there was off-duty and why they’re relying on his dedication to be there on his own time – or just luck that he was there, and why they don’t have full-time guards.
And the third story: Newtown Calls For Armed School Officers
The Newtown Board of Education wants more armed police officers in the towns four elementary schools after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary last month.
Last night, they decided to ask the town to approve the request to include one additional full-time Newtown police at each of the elementary schools in next year’s budget.
Today, members of the board will be meeting with state and federal officials about obtaining additional funding for security.
“Our parents are demanding of us that things are made safe and secure and certain measures are put in place,” Chairwoman Debbie Leidlein said. “So we’re being very thoughtful.”
Remember, that federal school security funding was stuff that Obama cut off.
He was just a one-man protest, but I’m sure he represents the vast majority of rapists. From Buckeye Firearms and FrontPageMag. H/T Quinn & Rose.
This past weekend, a small group of perhaps a dozen protesters gathered outside Dayton’s Hara Arena to protest the sale of modern sporting rifles at Bill Goodman’s Gun and Knife Show.
From the article:
“We know that guns are being sold on the floor inside Hara Arena illegally” said Jerome McCorry. “No background checks no identification of any kind.”
McCorry said “AK-47s and M16s are not gonna be used for hunting, they’re not going to be used to protect anybody. These are the weapons that are coming back and being used in mass murders and mass killings.”
After reading the article, a Buckeye Firearms Association supporter decided to contact McCorry, the apparent protest organizer, to inform him about the inaccuracies in his statements about firearms (it isn’t illegal for private individuals to sell a gun at the show without a background check, people aren’t selling M16s or fully-automatic AK47s at Hara Arena, modern sporting rifles are used for hunting, gun shows are rarely used by criminals as a source for guns, rifles [of any type] are used in murders far less than fists or baseball bats, etc.).
The supporter quickly found more than he bargained for. A simple Google search for Jerome McCorry reveals that the man trying to tell the public what weapons they should be allowed to own is a convicted felon.
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JEROME NMN McCORRY Registration #: 32198
Offenses
• Description: 2907.02 – Rape…
“Anti-Gun-Protestor Jerome McCorry” and “Rapist-and-Convicted-Felon Jerome McCorry” are one and the same person, and WHIO-TV and The Dayton Daily News have been treating this man as a legitimate voice of reason that should be considered in the debate over whether or not rape and other crime victims should be able to buy firearms in order to protect themselves from attack.
What’s even worse, this isn’t the first time. A search of the WHIO-TV website shows Jerome McCorry appearing in other articles advocating gun control over the past few years, and one article about an incident in which an Adam Project-sponsored rally turned violent.
FrontPageMag gets a few jabs in:
Jerome is an expert on what kind of guns can be used to protect someone, since he is the kind of guy that people buy guns to protect against.
But according to him, you don’t need an AK-47 or M16 to stop him from raping you. It’s just overkill. When Jerome bursts into your bedroom, you don’t need that much firepower, says the guy bursting into your bedroom.
Senator Feinstein needs to bring Jerome down to D.C. as an expert witness so he can testify on just how much firepower a woman needs to defend herself from him. And maybe Piers Morgan can have him on too.
Jerome McCorry is so passionate about keeping guns out of the hands of people who might shoot him that he spends a lot of time working on anti-gun activism.
Of course.
Unsurprising he’s pushing for the first option.
From CNN:
Despite the National Rifle Association’s assertion that Feinstein and other Democrats are taking steps toward outlawing all guns, no lawmaker is calling for a ban on the legal purchase of handguns. These common firearms, which account for the majority of gun-related violence in America but are also used for self-defense, are fully protected by the Second Amendment, according to a 2008 Supreme Court ruling.
They start the piece off with a drug deal gone bad, blame handguns, guns are bad m’kay, same old anti-gun crap that pretends to be news. They acknowledge that evil black assault weapons don’t really kill many people and we need to ZOMG!!!11!!! BAN TEH HANDGUNS!!!
As always, this isn’t about guns – it’s about control.
For example, if police detained accused abusers for a longer time, would that allow for a cooling off period and a decreased chance of violence?
Read that sentence again.
For example, if police detained accused abusers for a longer time, would that allow for a cooling off period and a decreased chance of violence?
Detaining the accused. Not accused as in charged, or abusers as in convicted, and jailed. This is just detaining people who are accused.
It’s not written too clearly. It’s unclear if they mean domestic abusers or drug abusers, but that’s unimportant, as neither of them should be detained just based on feelings. If they’re going to be held by police, it should be for crimes they’re going to be charged with. Not just because someone wants the police to hold them for a while. They’re either detained when there’s an investigation, or they’re seized and arrested. If it’s an investigative detention, the police doing their due diligence may have to hold them a while because of time required for the investigation. Holding them because some CNN reporter feels like it should be done means there’s no rule of law – there’s police holding people based on feelings.
They get on to gun tracing later as part of the drumbeat for disarmament:
It can takes weeks or even months, if law enforcement is lucky, to trace a gun back to its origin.
Because many states don’t require guns to be registered, or private sales to be documented, no one really knows who owns many of the guns in circulation in the United States.
That means authorities are often unable to find out how criminals got their guns.
This does nothing to stop violence.
That aside, all you have to do is call the manufacturer. They’ll indicate the distributor it went to, then to the store, then at the store, they have to keep 4473s on file for years. It’s one of those things even the communist invaders in Red Dawn knew can be used to find gun owners.
From the first owner, you then have to find out who they sold it to. Then you ask who they sold it to. Then you go from there. It requires a bit of investigation. It’s detective work. Too bad police aren’t there to investigate crimes or do detective work.
Really, it doesn’t take that much work, and ultimately, it doesn’t make that much difference. In the criminal world, the usual suspects really are the usual suspects.
Bouchard, who works with firearm dealers to make sure they are compliant with the law, likens the situation to underage drinking: If someone can’t get a beer, they may find someone who can buy it for them. The same is true of guns, he said.
“The rules are easily defeated,” he said. “If (criminals) want a gun they are going to get a gun.”
That’s a hole that President Obama hopes to address with universal background checks, stronger control of gun sales and laws that would make it a crime to sell your own gun to someone without a background check.
Gee, it’s a good thing that President Obama’s ATF didn’t go out and spend taxpayer money to give guns to actual, known criminal straw purchasers in violation of existing gun laws. It’s a good thing that Obama’s FBI didn’t decide to ignore NICS background checks and just let criminals pass so they could arm narcoterrorist cartels. That would make him sound like a rank hypocrite, wouldn’t it?
All these new regulations are are attempts at creating barriers to entry for people into exercising their rights. Regulate, restrict, and strangle a right and it goes away. Criminals will always break the law, criminals will always have weapons, and criminal governments and their lackeys will always have weapons.
NRA president David Keene suggested to CNN’s Candy Crowley that he has little faith in universal background checks, saying they don’t work.
That’s because, Bouchard said, it assumes criminals will follow the law.
“These criminals don’t care what the law says,” he said.
CNN seems to not understand what criminals are.
Bouchard said the real solution would be creating a database that tracks weapons purchases.
“If people knew every transaction of a gun was going to be recorded somewhere, I think they’d be more responsible with who they transferred their weapon to,” he said.
Registration is the first step to confiscation. Registration is a bad thing. There is no reason for the government to know what you own or don’t own. There is no benefit to you as a citizen. There are only benefits to prospective tyrants, as it makes it that much easier for them to establish total control.
That may not be today, tomorrow, or for years from now. It may be in the far future. But, as Thomas Jefferson is quoted as having said, “the beauty of the Second Amendment is that it won’t be needed unless they try to take it”. A government that respects you doesn’t try to disarm you and make you a serf. A government that serves you doesn’t disarm you.
CNN and their truth-makers are part of the Ruling Class. The decisions made by government don’t effect them any more than they effect David Gregory when he breaks the law on national TV. They are the lord, you are the serf.
Go figure, it’s a news story from Florida:
Lake City, Florida – A gun-wielding burglar who recently attempted to rob over a dozen women attending a residential jewelry party is behind bars after he fled the scene when the women ordered him out in the name of Jesus.
The incident happened last Friday when homeowner Jacquie Hagler had fourteen friends over for the party. Derek Lee, 24, who was wearing a ski cap and a bandana, entered the home with a gun and demanded that the women hand over their money and phones.
…Hagler, a born-again Christian, understood that the situation was indeed real. Some reports state that Lee even showed the women the bullets in his gun to prove that the robbery was not a prank.
“When I realized what was going on, I stood up and said, ‘In the name of Jesus, get out of my house now!’” Hagler told local television station WJXT-TV. “And he said [again], ‘I’m going to shoot someone.’”
“I said it again real boldly,” she continued. “Everybody started chanting, ‘Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!’”
Lee was stunned.
“The look on his face was just astonishment. He was totally captivated by whatever he saw,” Hagler explained. “[H]e did a quick scan of the room, and ran out the door as fast as he could go.”
Whatever works, I guess.
Just today, Obama went out asking for police chiefs and law enforcement to support his assault on the Constitution.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama kept up pressure on Congress Monday to pass tough new gun legislation, seeking help from law enforcement leaders in three communities that have suffered the horrors of mass shootings.
At a White House meeting, Obama said that no group is more important in the gun debate and he said he recognizes the issue “elicits a lot of passion all across the country.” But Obama also said he believes Congress will respond to appeals from police.
“Hopefully if law enforcement officials who are dealing with this stuff every single day can come to some basic consensus in terms of steps that we need to take,” he said, “Congress is going to be paying attention to them, and we’ll be able to make progress.”
Law enforcement leaders are bureaucrat politicians. They’re there to avoid liability and make decisions that will make sure they can retire. They take their oaths less seriously than their desire to lord over and control populations, because they’re used to lording over and controlling a police force, and see “the public” as something else to be controlled – and all of that lording over and controlling makes for a stable element for them to retire from.
Law enforcement leaders often do things that are illegal as well. One rather famous one was drug checkpoints inside the US in the case of Indianapolis v Edmond. The short short version is you can’t go violating the 4th Amendment “in the general interest of crime control”. Stopping everyone on the road and searching them for anything illegal may be effective, but it makes for a police state. A police state, to a police administrator, is an okay thing.
Keep in mind police already get special rights when it comes to the Second Amendment, whether active or retired. Some animals are more equal than others. There are good reasons for those statutes, and in free states they mirror what citizens can already do. In states ruled with iron fists, they give special privileges to the state enforcers.
Out in San Diego, the anti-rights police chief there says that the destruction of gun culture and massive gun confiscation can be done in a matter of a generation:
San Diego Police Chief, William Lansdowne said in an interview that the implementation of new gun laws will take guns off the streets of America within a generation.
According to San Diego 6, Lansdowne said that it may take a generation but guns will eventually be taken off the streets through new laws like Senator Dianne Feinstein’s proposed assault weapons ban:
“Chief Lansdowne, who plays an active role in the western region of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) association, said it may take a generation but guns will eventually be taken off the streets through new laws like Senator Diane Feinstein’s proposed assault weapons ban legislation. Some of the items his organization is addressing include; a ban on assault weapons, restricting high-capacity magazines, closing loopholes that allow firearm sales between private owners without background checks, and implementing much stricter background checks by using a comprehensive database.”
Ban modern guns, ban effective guns, ban citizens from selling to each other without begging permission of the state, and have the state simply deny everyone while tracking everyone for further confiscation. Shall not be infringed is meaningless to this bureaucrat cop.
Lansdowne called for tougher gun laws in an interview with KPBS, and praised President Obama for his initiative on gun control.
“I could not be more supportive of the president for taking the position he has,” he said.
“I think it’s courageous with the politics involved in this process. But I think it’s going to eventually make the country safer and certainly safer for my officers that have to respond to these calls.“
And there’s the key. As a bureaucrat, he thinks this will make the mob he lords over and controls safer. It puts the individual citizen at a disadvantage (especially the woman who now is given the “right” to fistfight her rapist). It also ignores that the police are not responsible for your safety. They can’t be everywhere at once, so they can’t be held accountable for your individual misfortune. But they can make you into a criminal if you fight back; and they can make you into a criminal who can’t own tools of self defense; or someone who they will prosecute later for using those tools to defend yourself. Police don’t stop crime. To quote the intro to Law & Order, the police investigate crime and district attorneys prosecute the offenders. Nowhere in there are you defended – you’re the body found by the jogger at the beginning of the episode.
The bureaucrat cop doesn’t care that the public is disarmed at all. He isn’t disarmed. You’re the one without the gun – not him. If he’s in law enforcement for too long, he gets that jaded “everyone sucks” mindset, wherein the only people who matter are cops, and everyone else is going to be a criminal sooner or later. That isn’t the purpose of the police in a free society.
Lansdowne believes that the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut weakened the gun lobby’s power and has opened the door for new gun control legislation.
“We broke the NRA,” Lansdowne said off-camera.
This would be the equivalent of him saying “within a generation, with Connor’s reforms, we should be able to stomp out any integrationist ideas…” and off-camera “we broke MLK”. And yes, I will keep right on going there – gun control is racist.
Lansdowne’s position on gun control appears to be in the minority among sheriffs across the nation, however.
As CNSNews.com previously reported, sheriffs from Florida to California have stated publicly that they will not comply with any new gun control measures proposed by the federal government.
That’s the good news. Sheriffs, unlike police chiefs, are ultimately accountable. They have elections to own up to, and voters to be responsible to. A police chief answers only to a mayor – and many mayors have used the Curley Effect to totally destroy their cities, leading to police chiefs who are simply their paramilitary functionaries. Most places, it takes more work to destroy a county than it does to destroy a city.
Something else that police chiefs as well as outright politicians will say are things like this line:
Still, one murder is one too many. One illegal gun is one too many, too, because when someone is murdered in New York City — although that happens much less frequently than in the past — odds are an illegal handgun was used.
Mind you in NYC, an “illegal gun” pretty much means any gun that isn’t owned by the police or political cronies of the mayor. But this is also a Broken Window Fallacy argument.
Due to all the peaceable people willing to surrender their rights for what they think will be safety, there are a lot more people who are harmed, hurt, assaulted, robbed, murdered, and raped because they lack tools to fight back. But these crime statistics that would be prevented with defensive gun usage never materialize. In the rest of the country, DGUs are overlooked because they are underreported – if a crime is deterred, there is nothing to report, and the citizen who deters it is unlikely to call the police just to be hassled for a DGU.
Taking the idea that “one murder is too many” into “so we must disarm all the citizens” means that there will be more murders. And the “odds are an illegal handgun was used” statement is because virtually all handguns in NYC are illegal. But Bloomberg and his lackeys, like all dictators, can never control a populace entirely. Prison guards work very hard to do so and know that it can’t be done. Bloomberg then takes the usual route of all dictators and claims it’s because his system isn’t implemented everywhere. The problem is there’s still freedom somewhere, and he must destroy it. Police chiefs already have a subjected population – their officers, and a subjected area – their city.
Actual officers’ groups often oppose gun control, as they are the ones answering the calls and going to see people who were unable to resist criminals. A few police chiefs also understand this, but the vocal ones, and the ones calling for gun control yesterday, today, and tomorrow, are those that hate that they can’t control everyone (thus destroying all risks and making their life easy).
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