Whiskey and car keys

We do not need to have a conversation about the NRA. We need to have a conversation about Chicago.

Daniel Greenfield

Chicago’s murder numbers have hit that magic 500. Baltimore’s murder toll has passed 200. In Philly, it’s up to 324, the highest since 2007. In Detroit, it’s approaching 400, another record. In New Orleans, it’s almost at 200. New York City is down to 414 from 508. In Los Angeles, it’s over 500. In St. Louis it’s 113 and 130 in Oakland.  It’s 121 in Memphis and 76 in Birmingham. Washington, D.C., home of the boys and girls who can solve it all, is nearing its own big 100. Those 12 cities alone account for nearly 3,200 dead and nearly a quarter of all murders in the United States. And we haven’t even visited sunny Atlanta or chilly Cleveland.

These cities are the heartland of America’s real gun culture. It isn’t the bitter gun-and-bible clingers in McCain and Romney territory who are racking up a more horrifying annual kill rate than Al Qaeda; it’s Obama’s own voting base.

Daniel Greenfield

While Newtown was an aberration, the issue is not Guns, it’s Gangs!  So why the response by Congress with eliminating the Second Amendment?  Because they don’t understand facts, logic, nor history.  Isn’t it obvious?  Look at their recent antics.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

P. J. O'Rourke

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