Did More Carrying Of Firearms Lead To More Murders?
Anti-gun zealots claimed Right to Carry or Constitutional Carry would lead to massive rise in crime-more murders. The evidence doesn’t show that.
Crime
Killadelphia: The Philadelphia Inquirer Still Tries to Obscure the Truth
The Philadelphia Police Department have released their last ‘official’ homicide report for the year, showing that 514 people have spilled out their life’s blood in the city’s mean streets. Oh, there’ll be another report tomorrow, generated by computer to update past year’s daily numbers, but the current year’s numbers are updated only Monday through Friday, …
Helen Gym Flaherty and Broken Windows
I had started on this story ten days ago, but had dropped it. It sat in my ‘drafts’ queue for a bit, until I say this tweet from Helen Gym Flaherty,¹ formerly a Philadelphia city councilwoman, and now a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Mayor: But while the longtime activist who is typically aligned …
Hallmark Sells Out
Hallmark has decided that it is no longer the channel for just traditional family entertainment and has instead, embraced perverse behaviors.
Tranche #7 of the ‘Twitter Files’ Drops and It’s a Doozy
Independent journalist Michael Shellenberger dropped the seventh tranche of the “Twitter Files” on Monday and it was a doozy. The latest data dump portrays the FBI in the worst light yet. Agents took possession of Hunter Biden’s laptop in late December 2019 following a call from John Paul Mac Isaac, the proprietor of the small computer …
Once again, De-escalation training is needed for civilians, not for cops.
De-escalation training is not for people in mental crisis, and unless a suspect is willing to de-escalate, it won’t work. Again, according to our political betters, we need to teach the cops to de-escalate. Not the civilians. While on patrol last week I found this interesting article on what our great leaders (excuse me, just …
Huge: FTX Insider Turns on Sam Bankman-Fried
According to a new filing in the bankruptcy case of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, it was an insider who spilled the beans on the company’s disgraced founder, Sam Bankman-Fried. CNBC reported that Wednesday’s filing contained a letter from the Bahama’s Securities Commission to the commissioner of police which said they’d been informed of potential fraudulent activity within FTX …
‘Not Fit for Humanity:’ Here’s the Prison Disgraced Dem Donor Sam Bankman-Fried May Spend 2 Months In
There’s only one game in town for those who break the law in the Bahamas – the notorious Fox Hill detention center. Unfortunately for disgraced FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, he may be calling this facility home for the next two months. Considering Bankman-Fried to be a flight risk, a Nassau judge denied his …
Maxine Waters Tries to Pull Fast One and End FTX Hearing, But GOP Rep Stops Her Dead in Her Tracks
Having been arrested the previous day in the Bahamas, the star of the show, Sam Bankman-Fried, was unable to attend Tuesday’s House Financial Services Committee hearing on the stunning collapse of FTX. But as they say, the show, presided over by the petulant and uber entitled committee chair, Rep. Maxine Waters, went on. The congresswoman from California …
Our Duty to Combat Evil
Whether you use one of many starting points, where we were warned by people who lived through some of the most horrific examples of tyranny and terror, like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s life in Gulag Archipelago, or the Bible, where so many examples of wickedness and evil subjected the Jews of those times horrific pain, suffering and …
What, Did Someone Recover From Being Dead?
We have already noted that there are questions concerning the homicide numbers in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Police Department’s Current Crime Statistics page reported that there had been 488 murders as of 11:59 PM EST on Sunday, December 11th. At 9:21 AM EST on Monday, December 12th, Stevee Keeley of Fox 29 News tweeted: Identity & …
Why Would Anyone Want to Become a Cop These Days?
Following the unfortunate death of methamphetamine-and-fentanyl crazed drug addict and previously convicted felon George Floyd while he was resisting a legitimate arrest in Minneapolis, the left went wild, and “Defund the Police“, as though the problem wasn’t crime, but people being arrested for committing crimes. This stupid notion was popular with the street agitators, and …
A Young Man’s KIlling Just Trashed Philadelphia’s Gun Control Arguments
We have previously noted the change from the 502 homicides originally reported for 2020, down to 499. Now, Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Helen Ubiñas noted someone that many expected to be on the list of 499, but who wasn’t there. This one seems legitimate: A 22-year-old was killed just over the city line in Upper Darby. …
Firearms: The Most Controversial Tool
Firearms. When you want to talk about a contentious subject, with a lefty, that’s my go to topic. If that isn’t enough, it’s that pro-abortion topic. But since the left tries so hard to make the tool illegal, and I just love my collection of tools, that’s where I will argue until they want …
Humanity, Humility and Humiliation
Humanity, Humility and Humiliation; The PM/Restocking Manager at the Chesapeake, VA Walmart store, killed six of his co-workers…and then himself. All of us on the outside of the story are shocked. Maybe…for a day or two. But then we move on to the next shooting, the next liar on Wall Street, the next political battle in …
Observations and Lamentations
Observations and Lamentations; I have been doing more stuff around my home, but still taking time to see what has been happening, around here and there, and what absurdities are piled on top of previous absurdities. Sometimes, you just have to take a break, and go and clear your head, by moving dirt, fixing …
Progressives Can’t See the Forest Due to All the Trees
According to the Philadelphia Police Department’s Current Crime Statistics page, there have been 473 people murdered in the City of Brotherly Love as of 11:59 PM EST on Thursday, December 1st. So, about what was District Attorney Larry Krasner worried on Thursday? Advocates sound alarm on murders of transgender women in Philadelphia Fox 29 News …
3 Steps to Reduce Violence, Including Gun Violence
The effort to reduce violence of all kinds, including gun violence, needs to be led by the states. Here’s how.
Six Ongoing Cataclysms in America, Part I
Six Ongoing Cataclysms in America, Part I; Foundational threats to the American Republic from the US political class
What Punishment Is Too Severe for Child Molesters?
Good writers know that they need to have good opening paragraphs to entice the reader to continue on, and Washington Post reviewer Peter Marks sure nailed that one! Take a deep breath and try to ruminate calmly on the position playwright Bruce Norris takes in his scintillating new play, “Downstate”: that the punishments inflicted on …