{"id":102465,"date":"2016-07-27T07:23:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=102465"},"modified":"2016-07-27T11:36:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T19:36:03","slug":"the-left-goes-ballistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=102465","title":{"rendered":"The Left Goes Ballistic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: At a ceremony for some of the various policemen recently shot by his fellow Black Lives Matter advocates, President Barack Obama described the postapocalyptic hellscape of gun violence that is America today:<\/p>\n

We flood communities with so many guns that it is easier for a teenager to buy a Glock than get his hands on a computer or even a book\u2026<\/p>\n

In contrast, Donald Trump\u2019s nomination acceptance speech was widely criticized as \u201cdark.\u201d \u2026 Pundits who, only days before, had been vociferously lamenting the gun crisis rushed to denounce Trump for fearmongering about crime.<\/p>\n

After all, law and order is not supposed to be on the agenda for 2016. \u2026 You are supposed to be worrying about guns, not crime.<\/p>\n

COMMENTS<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* Of course we can\u2019t focus on crime \u2013 that would require acknowledgement of the fact that we have an incredibly violent subset of the population that is willing to use deadly force to resolve minor and petty disputes, and that would cast the left\u2019s favorite class of victims in a negative light. Better to focus on the mechanism used to mete out punishment to one\u2019s transgressors rather than ask why such a noble group of people are so quick to go to Defcon 1 over matters most people would let go.<\/p>\n

* It\u2019s incredible that the president would make such an absurd statement of it being easier to obtain a Glock, a higher end pistol, than a book. It\u2019s as if he were to start babbling about UFOs on national television. The increase in homicide is a black thing but because of that they have to dance all around the subject without ever really spelling it out. Quite simply, the black population has to be sat upon by the police to keep their murder rate down. Without that they just revert back to their original state of tribalism and tribal warfare. Lighten up the police presence and they go out of control much as when power outages automatically lead to looting. It\u2019s just the way they are and they haven\u2019t changed much in all these years.<\/p>\n

* David Dinkins always likes to pipe up and claim that the policies that reduced crime actually began in his administration. I forget whether he began stop-and-frisk or whether he hired Bratton and started Compstat. But he invariably writes into newspapers and points that out every time they ran a story about Giuliani cleaning up crime.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the Dems used to use gun control like the Repubs use abortion: an issue they knew they couldn\u2019t win in Congress or the courts, but by screaming about it could rile up the base for cash and votes.<\/p>\n

Except now gun owners are beginning to talk about race again, thanks to the BLM movement trying to blame cops and rational people realizing it\u2019s not that once they get the counter argument. So now the Dems screams are just making more people realize they are the Black Party.<\/p>\n

* Murder rates over time are irrelevant unless improvements in medical care are controlled for. If you held the level of violence the same and had the medical care of 50 years ago the murder rate would be 3-4 times higher.<\/p>\n

* Lessons of Ferguson:<\/p>\n

If you steal some cigarillos from a store, then don\u2019t walk around holding them openly in your hand.<\/p>\n

If you do walk around holding them openly in your hand, then don\u2019t walk in the middle of the street.<\/p>\n

If a police officer tells you to stop walking in the middle of the street, then don\u2019t punch him in the face.<\/p>\n

If you do punch a police officer in the face, then don\u2019t try to grab his handgun.<\/p>\n

If you do grab his handgun, then don\u2019t put your thumb on the barrel opening, so that a bullet wounds your thumb.<\/p>\n

If your thumb is wounded and if you also are fat, intoxicated and wearing flip-flops, then don\u2019t try to run away.<\/p>\n

If you do run away, then don\u2019t stop and turn around to face the police officer.<\/p>\n

If you do stop and turn around, then don\u2019t yell, \u201cYou\u2019re too much of a pussy to shoot me!\u201d<\/p>\n

If you do yell, \u201cYou\u2019re too much of a pussy to shoot me,\u201d then don\u2019t charge at the police officer.<\/p>\n

If you do charge at the police officer and he shoots you in your torso, then don\u2019t keep charging until one of the bullets hits you in the forehead.<\/p>\n

* Obama\u2019s statement also continues the long (racist) Leftist tradition of not considering blacks as having moral agency. \u201cWe\u201d (implicitly whitey) put in front of (black) teens a veritable buffet of low cost Glocks (while at the same time we deprive them of access to books and computers). Forget for a moment that these are all lies and assume their truth for purposes of argument. Apparently, blacks have no role to play \u2013 once they are presented with these cheap guns they have no choice but to buy them and pop caps in their bruthas (and the occasional whitey).<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t this same buffet available to the teens of Bloomfield Hills and Bethesda, only a few short miles from nearby ghettos in Detroit and DC? And don\u2019t white teens have even more access to cash? Why are the prep school boys not shooting each other at a similar rate (or at all)?<\/p>\n

* Let\u2019s put aside a trifling matter such as the Second Amendment for a moment (the Constitution after all is a living document and can be reinterpreted ) and consider gun control as a practical matter.<\/p>\n

Most of the communities that \u201cwe\u201d have flooded with guns are also flooded with drugs. These drugs are mostly illegal. Outlawing the manufacturing, importation, possession or sale of these drugs with a variety of state and federal laws, most of which impose penalties at the felony level (i.e. long prison terms) has done little to stop their use, despite a century long \u201cWar on Drugs\u201d.<\/p>\n

Drugs can be produced domestically in illegal laboratories and they can be smuggled across the border. Or drugs that are intended for legitimate purposes can be diverted to illicit use. So if you put your finger in the dike, a thousand other holes spring up, driven by the pressure of the public\u2019s demand and willingness to pay for drugs.<\/p>\n

So while this war has not done much to actually reduce the supply of drugs to addicts (while at the same time making it difficult for people in real pain to receive appropriate medication) it has however filled our prisons and created a lucrative black market economy. Prohibiting alcohol had similar \u201csuccess\u201d.<\/p>\n

But, Obama and the Left want us to try yet another prohibition experiment. They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.<\/p>\n

* The elites who run NYC don\u2019t want, and have never wanted, low crime and a crackdown on Black crime that drives most crime.<\/p>\n

This is because they are mostly transient renters. Sure Jay Z and Taylor Swift have multimillion penthouses, but most are either the Ezra Klein transient renters or various entertainment\/info personalities moving from city to city. The real money is absentee \u2014 Chinese and Russian oligarchs putting money into hard -to-seize real estate. Meanwhile White Flight was a huge godsend to the creative people, who were able to live frankly degenerate lives without rebuke by a White middle class.<\/p>\n

This is why various lower-tier celebrities are openly rooting for a return to Taxi Driver NYC \u2014 it made renting cheaper. And if crime gets too bad, they\u2019ll just move \u2014 to DC, to London, to LA.<\/p>\n

You IMHO are penciling in the dynamic of LA \u2014 where celebrities actually own (and often buy\/sell) luxury properties and things like the attack on NCIS actress Pauly Perrette at her Hollywood Hills mansion by some homeless person creates a big city crackdown. While South Central is essentially a no-police zone.<\/p>\n

Orwell had it right \u2014 the purpose of torture is torture, the purpose of power is power. The purpose of Gun Control is disarming Whites in rural places. Because they are the natural and eternal enemies of rich White urban liberals who make their money by hereditary government networks. After all there are plenty of means to disarm Blacks such as Stop and Frisk which the people who actually RUN NYC \u2014 Di Blasio, Al Sharpton, various Black\/NuYoRican Gangs, the glitterati, the NYT, all detest. And ended. Rudy represented the revolt of the Outer Boroughs, but that\u2019s over with demographic change and the Caribbean immavasion tidal wave.<\/p>\n

Again, people who write for the NYT or form the lower tier infotainment\/government sector, need high Black crime in NYC to keep rents low. The collision between absentee foreign oligarchs seeing their property investments drop in titanic ways vs. the US elites should be interesting. I am more and more convinced the Jefferson\u2019s insight that property owners had a permanent interest in not degrading their nation was wise, vs. Hamilton\u2019s nomadic urbanites with no skin in the property game. Because they move so much.<\/p>\n

* Stirring up fake controversies by taking quotes out of context is a Leftist speciality but it doesn\u2019t seem to work on Trump at all. But that doesn\u2019t stop the Left from trying again and again. The NYTimes news pages no longer even pretend to be impartial.<\/p>\n

Something you have to understand (and which the reporter surely understands but pretends not to) is that Hillary\u2019s email server has been offline and scrubbed for a long time now. So the only way the Russians could leak the contents is if they hacked it when it was still on line. So, even taking Trump\u2019s remarks in a serious light and not as a joke as clearly intended (according to the NYT readers, sarcasm and humor are not permitted in Presidential candidates) it\u2019s not possible that Trump is appealing for the Russians to conduct FUTURE espionage on Hillary.<\/p>\n

At worst, he is telling Putin to release what he already has \u201cand he would be rewarded by the American press\u201d. The latter is what REALLY drove the NYT into a frenzy. Traditionally, yes, juice revelations about a presidential candidate are exactly what the press wants \u2013 they would be orgasmic if someone were to leak something truly incriminating about Trump. Normally they would give their eye teeth to break a scandal \u2013 since Watergate this has been the dream of every political reporter. But, in this case, the LAST thing that they want is to be forced to print something that would torpedo Hillary\u2019s candidacy. I would even bet that they would suddenly get ethical qualms and find some reason why they couldn\u2019t even print these stories (but the cat would be out of the bag anyway \u2013 they no longer have the monopoly).<\/p>\n

* He smacked the reporters around in that press conference. His instinct is to constantly attack. The debates will be very interesting. I don\u2019t think Hillary\u2019s AI decision tree can be programmed extensively enough to appear extemporaneous, and I suspect she\u2019ll fall back to point and sputter mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes: At a ceremony for some of the various policemen recently shot by his fellow Black Lives Matter advocates, President Barack Obama described the postapocalyptic hellscape of gun violence that is America today: We flood communities with so … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102465"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102484,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102465\/revisions\/102484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}