http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/01/gun-control-fail-baltimore-mayor-asks-fbi-to-stem-rising-murder-rate/
In the facing of gun-control's failure to stem violence in Democrat-run Baltimore, Mayor Mayor Catherine Pugh (D) is asking the FBI to help stem the rising murder rate.
A total of 318 people were murdered in Baltimore last year. The Baltimore Sun put this into perspective by reporting that "one out of every 2,000 [Baltimore] residents was killed in 2016."
And 2016 was not even the deadliest year on record. The deadliest year was 2015, when there were 344 homicides.
Now Mayor Pugh is begging for help. WJZ quoted Pugh saying, "I'm calling on all the assistance we can possibly get because I can't imagine going into our summer months with our crime rate where it is today, what that's going to look like by the end of the summer." She added, "Murder is out of control."
This admission comes even though Baltimore is one of the most gun-controlled cities in America. The city has a "high capacity" magazine ban, which was contained in the Firearm Safety Act of 2013. Yet Breitbart News reported that "The Trace, a gun control journalism outlet, shows that the criminal use of 'high capacity' magazines jumped in 2013 and continued to climb in 2014, 2015, and 2016."
In addition to the "high capacity" magazine ban, the Baltimore Sun indicates the Firearm Safety Act requires would-be handgun purchasers to submit fingerprints to the state police, and Fox News reports the Act created a ban that covers "45 types of assault weapons." Yet Baltimore's two deadliest years on record - 2015 and 2016 - occurred after all the gun controls were in place.
Mayor Pugh is now asking the FBI to step in and stop the bloodshed.
Well, Mayor Pugh ... here is the undeniable truth of the matter ... until the thugs of Baltimore start fearing the consequences of their unlawful actions, nothing is going to change. Here are two things you must do immediately if you have any chance of turning things around: (1) start actually supporting the officers of the Baltimore Police Department, and (2) actively promote ownership of state-of-the-art firearms with high-capacity magazines and proper training for all of the about-to-be victims in the population of the City of Baltimore.
1. With the asinine Freddie Gray case and the non-response to the subsequent riots by Baltimore's thugocracy, the officers of the Baltimore PD were hung out to dry. You need to let them know in no uncertain terms that you have their backs with manpower, equipment, permission to act commensurate with whatever threat they are facing, and barring any obvious illegal actions on their part, provide them with first-rate legal support in court. NOBODY in their right mind is going to walk into a war zone with both hands tied behind their back, a target painted on their front and their back, and the knowledge, that no matter what happens, they are far more likely than not to be the recipient of blame.
2. This won't decrease the bloodshed in the short run, but rather, it will start shifting the bloodshed away from the would-be victims to the perpetrators. Eventually, as the population of the Baltimore thugocracy is thinned out and the remaining thugs start to think twice about who they attack, the bloodshed will start to recede.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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