Jan 08 2008
Two, Two, Two Duhs In One!
Michigan discovers how to beat crime: Arm the citizens.
Imagine a city of 155,000 people where only 175 people commit a crime in one year.
For the mathematically inclined that means 99.8% of the the people are law-abiding, upstanding citizens.
What would you call such a city? Nirvana? Utopia? Poca-on-Steroids?
No, you would call it Michigan.
Dawson Bell of the Detroit Free Press reported on Sunday that since Michigan loosened up its gun permits laws in 2000, gun-related deaths are down.
The experts were wrong.
The sixfold increase in legally armed people led to less crime, not more.
And there’s the first duh! Somebody explain to me what’s happened to the common sense gene. Seriously. If you were a criminal, would you rather go after somebody you know isn’t armed, or somebody who might be armed? Is that a hard question? What’s the cognitive block here?
But the gun-grabbers go way beyond idiocy, into delusion:
“I think the general consensus out there from law enforcement is that things were not as bad as we expected,” said Woodhaven Police Chief Michael Martin, cochair of the legislative committee for the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police. “There are problems with gun violence. But … I think we can breathe a sigh of relief that what we anticipated didn’t happen.”
“What we anticipated” would be BLOOD IN THE STREETS! WILD WEST! GUNFIGHTS! SKYROCKETING VIOLENCE!, and that might be understandable, except that 48 states allow citizens to carry firearms (only Wisconsin and Illinois prohibit the right to keep and bear arms to all citizens), of those 48, 41 prohibit law enforcement from infringing upon the right based upon whim, in every case when a state passed liberal gun carry laws, the gun-grabbers shrieked BLOOD IN THE STREETS! WILD WEST! GUNFIGHTS! SKYROCKETING VIOLENCE! and it has never happened. Anywhere. So with 41 examples that BLOOD IN THE STREETS! WILD WEST! GUNFIGHTS! SKYROCKETING VIOLENCE! does not result, these idiots just cannot comprehend it.
They’re completely out of touch with reality. Pragmatically speaking, insane. So tell me: Why should we listen to anything these idiots have to say, ever, about anything?
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One Response to “Two, Two, Two Duhs In One!”
You bring up the same point I made in this post:
http://rightontheleftcoast.blogspot.com/2007/09/cal-berkeley-students-submit-to-violent.html
Great minds obviously think alike!