A well researched and written essay Doug. However, I believe that Hollywood and the internet war games deserve quite a bit of blame, especially for their influence on younger males with access to weapons.
Every gang member is a potential democrat, got to be nice to them!
Now you’re talking absolute common sense!!!
WHen drugs were legal in pre WW II hawaii, there was no drug related crime. The Volstead Act attempted to outlaw alcohol. It failed.
The War on Drugs attempts to outlaw drugs. It has been a total failure.
See the pattern?
The gangs need to be treated like any other terrorist group. They should be declared terrorist organizations and simple membership should be a criminal offense.
Any gang should be held responsible for any crimes committed by its individual members, and any violent crimes committed by gang members should be treated with “hate crime” status.
Just like happened in Australia, they should create a prison island, where murdering gang members can be exiled and forced to fend for themselves, as they fight each other to the death.
Conservatives and supporters of the 2nd amendment the Obama regime is using the 2nd amendment argument to blame gun owners for its inability to deal with the hundreds of gangland murders and shootings commited in areas under their solid control using illegally obtained firearms. Their solution to those inner city problems is to remove those rights provided by the constitution to have and bear arms from all US citizens.
None of those 19 so called “reforms” and unconstitutional efforts being edicted by who some call an emporer do not deal with the following issues briefly outlined below . They won’t because instead of creating a uniformly democratic society where every citizen has an equal voice no matter what their race or ethnicity.
Their policies have grouped races and ethnic groups by gerrymandering congressional districts where much of this criminal activity occurs. GOPES {goverment of the people (republican party) elites} see this issue as a 3rd rail because most of it is black on black or illegal vs illegal (Mexican) activity . GOPES are also afraid to say that policy may have also increased racial tension but again GOPES accept this because of the influence of mainline socialist media which would be accusing them of “racism” if they dare to question it.
I suggest they try out their new gun laws on gangs first. Let us know how it works out.
I do not understand why Obama, Biden, et al do not go right to the root of the problem and simply outlaw all crime. That would be about effective as more gun laws. These people are to naive and clueless...
if swat teams would have been used the way they were sold to the public, there’d be a lot less gangs and thugs running around. sadly they are not used for their declared purpose and because of that, here we are.
Good article, dfu. Thanks.
We declared a “War on Poverty” - and destroyed our society and created more poverty.
We declared a “War on Drugs” - and destroyed our society and created more drug criminals.
We declared a “War on Terror” - and destroyed our society and created more terrorist actions.
In each case the supposed focus was used as the target of the actions, yet most of the results swept up mainly law-abiding citizens caught in the web of poorly cast regulations.
“Gun Control” is nothing to do with Guns - it is all about CONTROL.