Keep'n the Safety Off BumP for the men and women behind shields serving the public. Be careful out there.
Wow, you mean criminals didn't turn in their guns immediately after Cali liberals passed their "scary gun" bans? Whoda thunk criminals don't obey gun laws?
Prohibition bump.
Connecting the War on Guns & Drugs [my title]
Address:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/820965/posts
"-- To understand the effect of the Drug War, we must understand it for what it is: the second Prohibition in America in this Century.
I do not need to remind anyone who knows our recent history what a disaster the first Prohibition was. It is a classic example of the attempt to control a vice--drunkenness--by police power. It made all use of alcohol a case of abuse. It produced such an intense wave of violence that it gave a name--The Roaring Twenties--to an entire decade. It lead to the establishment of powerful criminal empires, to widespread corruption in police and government, and to a surge of violence and gunfire all over the land.
And it produced a powerful attack on the Bill of Rights, including the most successful campaign of gun control laws in America up to that time.
Before the first Prohibition criminalized the trade in alcohol, liquor dealers were ordinary businessmen; after 1920 they were all violent criminals fighting for their territories.
We had gang wars, and drive-by shootings, and the use of machine guns by criminals. --"
Alameda abuts Oakland but is 95% Caucasian and Asian, separated from Oakland by a moat. At the nearest point you have to pass through a dark underwater tunnel to get in or out. That has a psychological effect keeping the cities separated. The tunnels and bridges are easily sealed off if there is a crime. The police are very assertive in pulling people over. It's amazing to have a clean quiet slow paced Mayberry town when there are people getting shot in drive-bys about a mile away.
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Of the 13 guns
Millions of criminals and they get 13 guns and call that an unusually large amount?
Right here in this small town you could get that many guns from criminals arrested each day!
Am I missing something here?
At least they weren't carrying black market cigarettes.
They were probably just getting ready for the upcoming May Day romp.
I carry a loaded 12 gauge mossberg pump with a pistol grip in my truck, the cops response, cool.
>>Five of the 13 recovered guns were prohibited assault weapons, Boersma said.<<
That's life in California.
A patrol officer discovered a Tech-9 machine pistol in the driver's waistband,he appeared fidgety and kept touching his waistband.
Two variations are NOT 'Machine Pistols' as they do not fire full auto unless illegally converted to do so...they come in basically two lengths total length 10-12" long with 3-5 inches of barrel
No wonder the 'perp' was 'fidgety'
Alameda is a city of approximately 74,000 reasonably behaved citizens, right in the heart of the liberal paradise called the SF Bay Area.
The police blotter reads like this:
Guy stopped for broken tail light. Booked for warrants. Lives in Oakland.
Nitwits on the beach making noise in the middle of the night. Sent back to Oakland.
Shoplifter busted at the supermarket. Lives in Oakland.
And etc....the crime rate in Alameda, in most categories, is up to nine times less than in surrounding cities. So 13 illegal guns in one month is pretty unusual. My hunch?
Lives in Oakland.
What do they mean "recovered"? Confiscated, maybe, but unless they were lost or stolen, how could they be recovered. Newspeak at work.