Posted on 07/29/2014 4:44:59 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Everyone knows how safe the streets of Washington, DC are [where as of 2010 violent crime was three times the national average], and how DC criminals scrupulously respect the District's very restrictive gun-control laws. So of course the last thing you would want is to permit law-abiding citizens to exercise their Constitutional rights to keep and bear arms. Why, that would only lead to the Gunfight at the DC Corral. No, better to keep all the guns in the hands of criminals.
Such seems to be Eugene Robinson's logic. On today's Morning Joe, the Washington Post columnist bemoaned a federal judge's ruling that DC's total ban on public carry is unconstitutional. According to Robinson, "Congress and the courts are essentially saying no, go ahead, shoot it out."
View the video here.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Citizens defending themselves against crime has...
shall we say “disparate impact”?
It's been said that doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity.
So what does one call these pundits who predict, over and over, the blood flowing in the streets where ever public carry has been allowed, only to find that the rate of violent crime goes down. Their rate of accuracy is second only to that of the annual psychic predictions for the upcoming year, found in the Weekly World News!
Mark
Eugene Robinson is about as sharp as a cue ball.
“Congress and the courts are essentially saying no, go ahead, shoot it out.” .........
They could all move to Chicago. I understand there is a lot of this going on all the time.
(Reminder to self...check out this weekends tally in Chicago and Milwaukee).
Gene is just mad ‘cause some of his feral Homies might end up like St. Trayvon. He doesn’t give a crap about the Constitution, only about his own dysfunctional criminal tribe.
“we must be.....racist?”
Thats the problem with whites in this country today, too many worried about somebody accusing them of that. It’s nothing more than a weapon minorities use as leverage to get their way. The reason it works is because whites let it work.....Someone accuses me of being racist I jast say “prove it”.
True story.
Several years ago, we had an unusual outbreak of drive-by shootings in one part of town. The Council Member for that district had the Public Works Dept put speed bumps all over the streets there. The reason he gave was that it would “mess up” the aim of the shooters.
He was voted out the next election. Not because he was an idiot, but because of the huge number of speed bumps that the people living there experienced every day. The Public Works Dept ended up removing most of the speed bumps after the election.
Robinson is a freakin’ moron. He’s a regular on the editorial page of our local Gannett newsrag.
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