Category: Crime

Rock, Meet Hard Place Ep. 34

Crime, Morons & Idiots

Great Caesar’s bleeding eyeballs, how stupid can you get?

Most Democrats think that crime is a “major problem” in large cities, but they oppose sending National Guard troops to respond to the problem, according to a new AP-NORC poll.

Let me try to understand this.

Let’s leave aside the (quite-logical) assumption that Democrat government in our cities don’t really give a rat’s ass about the crime problem in their respective jurisdictions, and grant the point that they are trying to do something about the problem.

And failing.

I probably shouldn’t do this, but I’m also going to ignore the fact that the 2020 mostly-peaceful BLM demonstrations/riots led to appalling destruction of said cities, and Democrat city governments didn’t only try to quell the unrest, but basically encouraged it either by actual statements, or by inaction.

While that kind of lawlessness seems to have abated, what’s happened since is an appalling rise in violent crime:  muggings, murders, burglaries and so on have all rocketed skywards, and continue to do so.

However you frame the issue, one thing is crystal clear:  Democrat politicians can’t address the crime problem in the large cities.

What options, then, remain to anyone who actually does want to find a solution?

Well, during the aforesaid BLM riots, Trump 45 didn’t send in the National Guard, leaving it up to the local governments to deal with it.  And they didn’t.

Trump 47 recently sent in the Guard to clear up the crime problem in Washington D.C., and the city has, in the space of a couple weeks or so, become a safe place to live.  (Note that the only “opposition” to Trump’s intervention in D.C. has come from people — White Old Farts — who either don’t live there or else aren’t affected by the crime personally.  The actual — mostly Black — residents of D.C. are overjoyed that their city has become a safer place to live, and are not part of the demonstrations.)

So why, I ask, would Democrats oppose the same treatment for the rest of the crime-ridden cities?

Because it’s Trump doing the sending.  And Orange Man Bad.

Feckless fools, they are — both the Democrat politicians and their supporters.

Another Sick Asshole

Bad News, Psychos

So the sicko responsible for the recent Minnesota school shooting has been identified as some trannie or other.  Most notable about this sorry tale has been the response from both sides of the political debate.

To the Left, of course, it’s all about eeevil gunsgunsguns and How They Should All Be Banned.

To the non-Left, is just another example of how the Great Trannie Craze has unhinged kids’ minds.

I’m indifferent to both camps.  Of course, the “Bans Guns Now!” bullshit doesn’t work for me for all the usual reasons (stop me if you’ve heard them all before):  gun bans don’t work because evil people will always find a way to get them, and a universal gun ban would be impossible to implement and/or enforce, etc.

I’m also scornful of the “Trannie-ism Poisons Minds” mantra.  I mean, yes it might well do that — and there seems to be an awfully high percentage of recent mass shootings / stabbings recently committed by trannies, despite the efforts of the police and Leftists to disguise the trend — but the simple fact of the matter is that the cause of mental illness is largely irrelevant.  Some asshole might go on a spree because his girlfriend just left him, because he can’t get a girlfriend (the “incel” syndrome), because he recently got fired by the company where he ended up playing his reindeer games, because the victims are part of a group he hates, because a black dog told him to do it… or just because it was Thursday.

The reasons for the atrocity, therefore, are less important than the outcome of the the thing:  innocent people got killed or wounded by some sick asshole.  And looked at clinically, the weapons used (guns, knives, bombs, whatever) are largely irrelevant:  whatever the tool selected, bad things happened.

Everyone seems to be obsessed with discovering the motive of the sicko, when in fact the motive is irrelevant:  whatever drove the male/female/combination mass murderer to go all Texas Tower on innocent people, there’s not a whole lot we as a society can do about it.

And that’s the tragedy of the thing.  Bodyguards all over the place — whether the Secret Service, police or Rent-A-Cops — will tell you that the hardest situation to prepare for is the Random Sicko because he gets to pick the victim(s), the place and the time.

As I see it, the only way one can try to prevent the mass shooting/stabbing/clubbing event is to be alert, be prepared and to be armed — whether as individuals carrying a gun, or by extension as an organization employing an armed security service.  It may not be possible to prevent the atrocity, but it may be possible to contain it.

It really sucks that a Catholic school such as the one in Minneapolis should have to do the latter just to safeguard the children it’s looking after, and it sucks that I should have to carry a gun and three magazines to the supermarket on every visit, but that seems to be the way of the world these days.

Restraint

Heroism, Psychos

So apparently there’s a Good Guy With A Gun involved in the taking down of our loony stabber in Traverse City MI — not that you’d ever read or hear about it in the Messed-Up Media, of course.

Here’s Our Hero, and that’s the situation he found himself in.

Now good for him, in that he restrained himself from ventilating the nutcase.  (I’m not quite sure what’s going on with that hold on the gun, mind you, but whatever.)

Apparently, he told the loony to drop the knife “several times” before the asshole saw the light of reason and dropped the knife

I have to say that if I were in his situation, standing what looks like three or four feet away from the nutcase, I’m not sure that I would have acted the same.

He’s standing very much in range of a stabbing lunge, and as we all know, that’s way too close for comfort.

I may or may not have issued a “Drop the fucking knife!” order, but I sure as hell would have popped three into his chest after the first refusal to do so.  Standing close to a nutcase holding a bloodstained knife, with the screams of his victims echoing all over the place…

Like I said, the man showed admirable restraint.  Others might not have.

Oh, and semper fi, Marine.

Tearing Sounds

Illegal immigrants, Law and Order, Resistance

I sent Mr. Free Market this link a couple of days back, seeking his perspective on the matter:

The British government said that it is urgently important to restore the “social fabric” of the country amid warnings that anti-mass migration sentiment could see another summer of riots break out in the country.

His only response was this report, sent without comment:

Police not ready for summer of unrest:  Officers will be diverted away from local duties, bosses warn, as protests over mass migration grow.

After days of protests against mass migration outside asylum hotels, with more planned in the coming weeks, there are fears the UK could be heading for another summer of violent disorder.

The gloomy background scenario aside, I can’t help but think that the Britcops should have no staffing issues at all.  Perhaps they might consider releasing thousands of their rozzers from monitoring social media for “hate speech”, but that would probably be too much to ask.

What I’ve seen in various other reports is that the number of “sickies” (sick days) in the force seems to be on the rise.  Perhaps the rank-and-file don’t have the heart to do what their superiors will be asking them to do.

An interesting situation.

Close Escape

Elections, Psychos

Man, did we ever dodge a bullet back in 2016:

The report indicates that Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) possessed “DNC communications that Clinton was suffering from ‘intensified psycho-emotional problems, including uncontrolled fits of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness,’” and that Hillary “was placed on a daily regimen of ‘heavy tranquilizers’ and while afraid of losing, she remained ‘obsessed with a thirst for power.’ ”

Yup… that sounds like Our Hillary, ferrrr shirrr.

Worse still (in the linked article) is the role the loathsome Obama Administration played in the whole matter.

Read it, and rage.

That Epstein Thing

Crime, Politics

The Divine Sarah has an opinion about the Epstein thing, and it makes a great deal of sense.  The biggest part:

“No, it is not actually credible that Trump was ‘in the Epstein list’ because if he had been, the Biden DOJ who had control of that list would have published it or at least published that bit of it, with corroboration, instead of going after washed up socialites and media personalities oh, and porn actresses to try to smear Trump.”

That makes a great deal of sense.  Of course, assuming that if such a list even existed — and maybe it did, or maybe it was all in Epstein’s (now-deceased) head, or maybe it used to exist and was so incriminating for a whole bunch of Democrat bigwigs that the Democrat-controlled FBI destroyed it and all its supporting evidence during the arrest and search (which took place, lest we forget, in 2019).

Equally germane to the whole “Epstein coverup” is that the loudest voices now screaming for Bondi’s removal and ritual beheading are either extremist MAGA nutcases or rabid lefties like Keith Olberman.

Why would the Left suddenly be calling for the removal of Trump’s attorney-general?

I dunno, but here’s one reason:

The Department of Justice and the FBI have been quietly building a major criminal conspiracy case targeting the Deep State’s decade-long effort to derail Donald Trump. According to Solomon, the scope of the investigation could finally deliver the accountability that many in the MAGA movement have long demanded.

Now that’s a bigger deal than a pedophile’s little black book that may or may not exist.

Look, I don’t like the fact that the Epstein files were on Bondi’s desk (by her own admission) and it turned out that they were just a big nothingburger.

And I’ll also buy the fact that Epstein may well have killed himself, with the absolute assistance of corrupt criminal officials (surveillance video turned off, the guards “on break”, etc.), because that’s how things work in a corrupt Democrat bureaucracy.

Frankly, I’m more interested that these assholes get to wear prison jumpsuits:


…than a bunch of wealthy or politically-active assholes who liked shagging young girls.  Both would be good, I agree;  but if forced to pick one group, I’d pick to one containing Brennan, Comey and McCabe et al.

And if it were to turn out that the Clintons were involved in that criminal conspiracy — and I’m not taking bets they weren’t — we’d most likely be getting a twofer, given the likely intersect.

Speaking of a real MAGA issue being more important than Epstein, there’s also this one:

The Supreme Court delivered an opinion last week that not even the best of the punditry class was prepared to understand. The decision was Trump vs. CASA, and the topic concerned the nationwide injunction against Trump’s management of U.S. immigration policy. As with more than 40 other cases, federal district judges have intervened to stop the president from exercising executive powers.

The opinion could not be plainer: “Universal injunctions likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has given to federal courts.” That principle applies not only to this case but to the whole panoply of cases that have tethered the ability of the president to manage executive branch operations. The courts have presumed authority over the president that the Constitution plainly does not grant.

I would suggest that the whole Epstein argy-bargy is a sideshow compared to the above two issues, and it’s them we should be going after.  Yeah, maybe Bill Clinton was an Epstein client / accomplice;  but that he may have escaped justice (for the umpteenth time) is just an irritation, not a critical problem.

A runaway Deep State and an obstructive (and un-Constitutional) judiciary are far more important matters — and that the Trump Administration is dealing with them is more important for our nation’s future than some crowd of foul kiddie-diddlers against whom we have little evidence anyway.

Sucks, but that’s the reality of the thing.