Must be all that blood in the streets from those assault weapons
Violent crime is on the rise. Readers here knew that. And we knew why:
. . . release of large numbers of prisoners were in part responsible for the rising crime.
But The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership blames those evil guns.
June 22nd, 2007 at 10:26 am
….’but they were just victims of their *environment*!’.
‘They aren’t bad people….’
f-ing morons.
“save” money by moving costs from a known line item (e.g. Prisons) to an unknown item (e.g. Crime) an inflict pain and misery on all the new victims.
Disgusting.
June 23rd, 2007 at 9:28 am
There’s an interesting article at the NY Times on the debate over current crime rates. I put a post about it yesterday on my blog and I’d love to hear your point of view.
http://www.grapplingwithguns.com/archives/2007/06/report_on_national_violence_tr_1.html
NYTimes http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/22/us/22oakland.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin