Posted on 03/20/2016 6:47:57 AM PDT by SJackson
According to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, the spike in edged weapon attacks in the Big Apple are a result of the city’s gun control efforts being so successful.
Yes, he really is that delusional.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio says the explosion in random slashings this year shows the city is getting guns off the streets, but critics say it’s another NYPD policy that is driving the blade attacks: The end of stop-and-frisk.De Blasio’s claim earlier this month that violent criminals are using knives, razor blades and boxcutters to maim strangers because they can’t get their hands on firearms prompted skepticism from law enforcement experts. Slashings have jumped about 20 percent this year compared to the first three months of 2015, with attacks occurring on the subway, at tourist attractions and in outer borough neighborhoods long plagued by crime.
“I’m not a criminologist,” de Blasio told reporters in response to a question about the knife attacks. “But I can safely say that guns are being taken off the street in an unprecedented way. Some people, unfortunately, are turning to a different weapon.”
That’s one theory.
Here’s another that’s based in reality.
Precisely nothing de Blasio has done has impeded the flow of weapons and drugs into New York City. Instead, he’s ended the NYPD’s “stop and frisk” policy, and made it much easier for criminals and crazies to carry weapons without significant risk of being stopped.
These edged weapon attacks are part of a wider spike in violent crime that is a direct result of the “Ferguson Effect,” where criminals have become the new protected class. Criminals are now afforded more rights and preferential treatment by government non-government agencies (NGOs) than law-abiding citizens or law enforcement, thanks to deranged social policy emanating from the left wing fringe of the Democrat Party. It is this sort of deranged social policy which is giving criminals the confidence to carry weapons of all kinds in a society poised to embrace anarchy as official public policy.
De Blasio and generations of Democrats before him have emboldened criminals by making it nearly impossible for law-abiding citizens to legally carry concealed handguns for their own self-defense. Knowing that good people have been disarmed by law, and that the NYPD have been handcuffed by policy, the criminals and the crazies are reacting much as they did in the 1980s, under the crime spree that was David Dinkins Administration.
Slashing attacks are up 20% in New York City so far this year, and it’s only going to get bloodier as the weather warms up.
Would they make these kinds of attacks on someone they feared might be armed?
Headline is an insult to retards.
Hey, give DeBlasio a break!
He’s only trying to best Chicago’s stellar record for homicides and crime in general. Rahm Emanuel’s a tough one to beat...
He did not “end” stop & frisk. That’s silly. He just made cops not want to do it anymore.
Even if they did there’d still be less of them over time as they got weeded out by carriers.
Fred Dicker: What is it going to mean for Donald Trump to have Bill de Blasio as [New York City] Mayor? "
Donald Trump: "He's a smart guy that knows what's going on really big league and I think he is not going to want to destroy New York."
(Voice Over: That was Donald Trump a little over two years ago, endorsing [Marxist] Bill de Blasio for New York Mayor)
Donald Trump: "I think pretty strongly that he'll end up being a good mayor, maybe a very good mayor."
(Voice Over: De Blasio ran on class warfare, sanctuary cities and ending stop and frisk. De Blasio's sided with looters and cop killers against the police, with teachers unions against schoolchildren and with PC liberals to let the homeless run wild on city streets)
Donald Trump: "I think he is going to want to make New York great. ..."
http://www.redstate.com/2016/01/19/trump-endorsed-bill-de-blasio/
The problem is that they are infringing on 2nd amm rights.
Curtailing the infringement of 4th amm rights is not the problem.
You convinced me. I am going to cast my vote for the stealth crony Ted!
Putting duh Blasio and retard in the same sentence is redundant...
The animals are running the zoo.
I see your De Blasio and raise my Graham and Romney cards.
Given DeMlasio’s limited intelligence, just what is the distance between “normal DeBlasio” and “full retard”?
I take issue with the characterizations of left wing and 'fringe' when describing these policies. The enforcement of criminals' rights and the degradation of citizen's security and their rights are very much standard Democratic Party stances.
One will be hard pressed to find any Democratic Party official not on board with these De Blasio precepts. If there is one, he or she could be described as in the moderate wing fringe of the Democratic Party.
As flawed as they are, they can hardly come close to communist Bill de Blasio. I take it you were trying to be funny?
The headline is a quote from a movie.
Thanks. Mostly I was being sarcastic.
DeBlasio is an insult to humanity, let alone intelligence.
Graham and Romney are actually working alongside with Rafael to stop Trump and to install their GOPe flunky in the brokered convention.
That's far more damaging than an endorsement of a liberal candidate who was going to win and Trump would have to work with anyway.
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