Posted on 01/01/2002 11:58:15 AM PST by dhuffman@awod.com
Stop the violence
Yes, as City Councilman Wendell Gilliard said, "The plea is out." ("Help police stem violence." Post and Courier editorial, Dec. 24)
Even in great communities like Chicago, with a long history of draconian laws, city fathers plead for a means to reverse the internecine homicide rate as Chicago is awarded the title "Number One in Murder." (Chicago Tribune, Dec. 2, by E. Ferkenhoff).
Chicago leads even Charleston, having long ago "embraced community policing - building relationships with citizens and neighborhood groups through regular meetings with beat officers." Or is this a different plan than Councilman Gilliard's "proven over and over again" neighborhood involvement with law enforcement?
I ask Councilman Gilliard and Mayor Riley, "Where is the proof?" Councilman Gilliard's veracity depends on it. The safety and peace of mind of Charleston's citizenry hang on it. Chicago's experience denies such proof exists.
I offer documented proof that as good citizens take up arms the violent and criminal elements move away. Dr. John R. Lott's "More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws" (U. Chicago Press) rigorously demonstrates just that. South Carolina's Law Abiding Citizens Self-Defense Act of 1996 provides the legal means for good citizens to take up arms for protection of person and property.
Why do Charleston and its community leaders continue to deny their citizens this information and this means of self-protection?
DOUG HUFFMAN
960 Fowler Court
Mount Pleasant
The context for this is; Charleston, SC has had an unprecedented wave of violence in 2001 and especially following the massive May Day drug bust. Dozens of Charleston's druggie and gangsta' NOBs (that's North of Broad Street - really East Siders) were carted away. This left a power vacuum in the under community that is being resolved through drive-bys and other assorted forms of internecine violence. Early in December another "emergency summit" of the usual suspects was called and the decision was made to continue doing nothing.
Have at it y'all.
The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.
Even in great communities like Chicago, with a long history of draconian laws, city fathers plead for a means to reverse the internecine homicide rate as Chicago is awarded the title "Number One in Murder." (Chicago Tribune, Dec. 2, by E. Ferkenhoff).What wise and capable city fathers (and what strangely gender specific language!). Yes, friends, pleading always works. Criminals and predators stop dead in their tracks when you appeal to the better angels of their natures.
out here in the peoples republic of Kalifornia, crime is down simply because it is no longer being prosecuted.Yes! Another bold policy innovation. We'll win this war on crime yet.
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