Violence in America - A excellent analysis of the facts

[Pete]

No rose colored glasses allowed.
Read it and think about it.

This will not make some of you happy, but the facts are the facts.
So wake up and lets do something that would rally matter rather that the same old political correct crap.



Monday, January 04, 2016
America Doesn't Have a Gun Problem, It Has a Democrat Problem
Posted by Daniel Greenfield 32 Comments
America's mass shooting capital isn't somewhere out west where you can get a gun at the corner store. It's in Obama's own hometown.

Chicago is America's mass shooting capital. There were over 400 shootings with more than one victim. In 95 of those shootings, 3 or more people were shot.

2,995 people were shot in Chicago last year. Shootings were up, way up, in Baltimore. With an assist from Al Sharpton and #BlackLivesMatter, Baltimore beat out Detroit. But Detroit is still in the running. Chicago, Baltimore and Detroit all have something in common, they're all run by the party of gun control which somehow can't seem to manage to control the criminals who have the guns.

The murder rate in Washington, D.C., home of the progressive boys and girls who can solve it all, is up 54%. The capital of the national bureaucracy has also been the country's murder capital.

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.

Gun violence is at its worst in the cities that Obama won in 2012. Places like New Orleans, Memphis, Birmingham, St. Louis, Kansas City and Philly. The Democrats are blaming Republicans for the crimes of their own voters.

Chicago, where Obama delivered his victory speech, has homicide numbers that match all of Japan and are higher than Spain, Poland and pre-war Syria. If Chicago gets any worse, it will find itself passing the number of murders for the entire country of Canada.

Chicago’s murder rate of 15.09 per 100,000 people looks nothing like the American 4.2 rate, but it does look like the murder rates in failed countries like Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe. To achieve Chicago’s murder rate, African countries usually have to experience a bloody genocidal civil war.

But Chicago isn’t even all that unique. Or the worst case scenario. That would be St. Louis with 50 murders for 100,000 people. If St Louis were a country, it would have the 4th highest murder rate in the world, beating out Jamaica, El Salvador and Rwanda.

Obama won St. Louis 82 to 16 percent.

New Orleans lags behind with a 39.6 murder rate. Louisiana went red for Romney 58 to 40, but Orleans Parish went blue for Obama 80 to 17. Obama won both St. Louis and Baltimore by comfortable margins. He won Detroit’s Wayne County 73 to 26.

Homicide rates like these show that something is broken, but it isn’t broken among Republican voters rushing to stock up on rifles every time Obama begins threatening their right to buy them; it’s broken among Obama’s base.

Any serious conversation about gun violence and gun culture has to begin at home; in Chicago, in Baltimore, in New York City, in Los Angeles and in Washington, D.C.

Voting for Obama does not make people innately homicidal. Just look at Seattle. So what is happening in Chicago to drive it to the gates of hell?

A breakdown of the Chicago killing fields shows that 83% of those murdered in Chicago in one year had criminal records. In Philly, it’s 75%. In Milwaukee it’s 77% percent. In New Orleans, it’s 64%. In Baltimore, it’s 91%. Many were felons who had served time. And as many as 80% of the homicides were gang related.

Chicago’s problem isn’t guns; it’s gangs. Gun control efforts in Chicago or any other major city are doomed because gangs represent organized crime networks which stretch down to Mexico. And Democrats pander to those gangs because it helps them get elected. That's why Federal gun prosecutions in Chicago dropped sharply under Obama. It's why he has set free drug dealers and gang members to deal and kill while convening town halls on gun violence.

America’s murder rate isn’t the work of the suburban and rural homeowners who shop for guns at sporting goods stores and at gun shows, and whom the media profiles after every shooting, but by the gangs embedded in urban areas controlled by Democrats. The gangs who drive up America’s murder rate look nothing like the occasional mentally ill suburban white kid who goes off his medication and decides to shoot up a school. Lanza, like most serial killers, is a media aberration, not the norm.

National murder statistics show that blacks are far more likely to be killers than whites and they are also far more likely to be killed. The single largest cause of homicides is the argument. 4th on the list is juvenile gang activity with 676 murders, which combined with various flavors of gangland killings takes us nearly to the 1,000 mark. America has more gangland murders than Sierra Leone, Eritrea and Puerto Rico have murders.

Our national murder rate is not some incomprehensible mystery that can only be attributed to the inanimate tools, the steel, brass and wood that do the work. It is largely the work of adult males from age 18 to 39 with criminal records killing other males of that same age and criminal past.

If this were going on in Rwanda, El Salvador or Sierra Leone, we would have no trouble knowing what to make of it, and silly pearl-clutching nonsense about gun control would never even come up. But this is Chicago, it’s Baltimore, it’s Philly and NOLA; and so we refuse to see that our major cities are in the same boat as some of the worst trouble spots in the world.

Lanza and Newtown are comforting aberrations. They allow us to take refuge in the fantasy that homicides in America are the work of the occasional serial killer practicing his dark art in one of those perfect small towns that always show up in murder mysteries or Stephen King novels. They fool us into thinking that there is something American about our murder rate that can be traced to hunting season, patriotism and bad mothers.

But go to Chicago or Baltimore. Go where the killings really happen and the illusion comes apart.

There is a war going on in America between gangs of young men who bear an uncanny resemblance to their counterparts in Sierra Leone or El Salvador. They live like them, they fight for control of the streets like them and they kill like them.

America’s horrific murder rate is a result of the transformation of major American cities into Sierra Leone, Somalia, Rwanda and El Salvador. Gun violence largely consists of criminals killing criminals.

As David Kennedy, the head of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control, put it, "The majority of homicide victims have extensive criminal histories. This is simply the way that the world of criminal homicide works. It's a fact.”

America is, on a county by county basis, not a violent country, just as it, on a county by county basis, did not vote for Obama. It is being dragged down by broken cities full of broken families whose mayors would like to trash the Bill of Rights for the entire country in the vain hope that national gun control will save their cities, even though gun control is likely to be as much help to Chicago or New Orleans as the War on Drugs.

Obama’s pretense that there needs to be a national conversation about rural American gun owners is a dishonest and cynical ploy that distracts attention from the real problem that he and politicians like him have sat on for generations.

America does not have a gun problem. Its problem is in the broken culture of cities administered by Democrats. We do not need to have a conversation about gun violence. We need to have a conversation about Chicago. We need to have a conversation about what the Democrats have done to our cities.

(A version of this article originally appeared at Front Page Magazine.)

[dinosnake]

Wait: a blog from a known anti-Muslim, strictly conservative-leaving pro-Israel writer, attached to a strictly-conservatively paid for "think tank"

https://duckducko.com/html/?q=Daniel%20Greenfield

is not the same old political correct crap, just from one direction?

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When adults wish to solve problems, they discuss all the failures and then seek remedies.  When America is ready to truly discuss this issue as fully consenting adults, admitting ALL sides of the problem and discussing all the failures leading to it, call me.

[MP]

Wait: a blog from a known anti-Muslim, strictly conservative-leaving pro-Israel writer, attached to a strictly-conservatively paid for "think tank"

https://duckducko.com/html/?q=Daniel%20Greenfield

is not the same old political correct crap, just from one direction?

_________________________________

When adults wish to solve problems, they discuss all the failures and then seek remedies.  When America is ready to truly discuss this issue as fully consenting adults, admitting ALL sides of the problem and discussing all the failures leading to it, call me.

Diversion and misdirection.

Attack the messenger, avoid the message.

The message is true.  The facts are true.  The violence IS occurring in in cities controlled for DECADES by Democrats.  Their liberal policies have failed.

If you take out several failed Liberal cities, the U.S. violence rate drops to one of the lowest in the world.

[Hook#3287]

Wait: a blog from a known anti-Muslim, strictly conservative-leaving pro-Israel writer, attached to a strictly-conservatively paid for "think tank"

https://duckducko.com/html/?q=Daniel%20Greenfield

is not the same old political correct crap, just from one direction?

_________________________________

When adults wish to solve problems, they discuss all the failures and then seek remedies.  When America is ready to truly discuss this issue as fully consenting adults, admitting ALL sides of the problem and discussing all the failures leading to it, call me.

So, dinosnake, are you disagreeing with the content of the blog or shooting the messenger?

[Serk]

[MP]

GREAT graph, Serk!

FACTS are a Bitch to the Liberal Gun Grabbers!

[DirtyDan]

well said Serk and MP

dan

[Patrick]

Take a look at just one city, NYC. Pre, during, and, post, Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Too bad he is not a presidential candidate.

[TallRider]

Here is an interesting statement from Columnist Bill Bennet Reguarding Trump. Looks like the whole political bunch can be question. If the Democrats are that twisted this should be a conserne as well. Lot of conspericies flying around. I do believe the boarder and eligal issue is for votes:

What is said below is exactly what is now happening.
 
They will kill him before they let him be president.   It could be a Republican or Democrat that instigates the shutting up of Trump.   Don't be surprised if Trump has an accident.   Some people are getting very nervous: Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton and Jon Corzine, to name just a few.   It's about the unholy dynamics between big government, big business, and big media.   They all benefit by the billions of dollars from this partnership, and it’s in all of their interests to protect one another.   It’s one for all and all for one.
 
It’s a heck of a filthy relationship that makes everyone filthy rich — everyone except the American people.   We get ripped off.   We’re the patsies.   But for once, the powerful socialist cabal and the corrupt crony capitalists are scared.   The over-the-top reaction to Trump by politicians of both parties, the media, and the biggest corporations of America has been so swift and insanely angry that it suggests they are all threatened and frightened like never before.
 
Donald Trump can self-fund.   No matter how much they say to the contrary, the media, business, and political elite understand that Trump is no joke.   He could actually win and upset their nice cozy apple cart.   It’s no coincidence that everyone has gotten together to destroy The Donald.   It’s because most of the other politicians are part of the “old boys club.”   They talk big, but they won’t change a thing.   They are all beholden to big-money donors.   They are all owned by lobbyists, unions, lawyers, gigantic environmental organizations, and multinational corporations . . . like Big Pharma or Big Oil.   Or they are owned lock, stock and barrel by foreigners, like George Soros owns Obama or foreign governments that own Hillary with their Clinton Foundation donations.
 
These run-of-the-mill establishment politicians are all puppets owned by big money.   But there’s one man who isn’t beholden to anyone.   There’s one man who doesn’t need foreigners, or foreign governments, or George Soros, or the United Auto Workers, or the teachers’ union, or the Service Employees International Union, or the Bar Association to fund his campaign.   Billionaire tycoon and maverick Donald Trump doesn’t need anyone’s help.   That means he doesn’t care what the media says.  He doesn’t care what the corporate elites think.   That makes him very dangerous to the entrenched interests.   That makes Trump a huge threat to those people.   Trump can ruin everything for the bribed politicians and their spoiled slave masters.
 
Don’t you ever wonder why the GOP has never tried to impeach Obama?   Don’t you wonder why John Boehner and Mitch McConnell talk a big game, but never actually try to stop Obama?   Don’t you wonder why Congress holds the purse strings, yet has never tried to defund Obamacare or Obama’s clearly illegal executive action on amnesty for illegal aliens?   Bizarre, right?   It defies logic, right?   First, I’d guess many key Republicans are being bribed.   Secondly, I believe many key Republicans are being blackmailed.   Whether they are having affairs, or secretly gay, or stealing taxpayer money, the National Security Agency knows everything.
 
Ask former House Speaker Dennis Hastert about that.   The government even knew he was withdrawing large sums of his own money from his own bank account.   The NSA, the SEC, the IRS, and all the other three-letter government agencies are watching every Republican political leader.   They surveil everything. Thirdly, many Republicans are petrified of being called “racists” . . . so they are scared to ever criticize Obama or call out his crimes, let alone demand his impeachment.   Fourth , why rock the boat?  After defeat or retirement, if you’re a “good boy,” you’ve got a $5 million-per-year lobbying job waiting.   The big-money interests have the system gamed.   Win or lose, they win.
 
But Trump doesn’t play by any of these rules.   Trump breaks up this nice, cozy relationship between big government, big media, and big business.   All the rules are out the window if Trump wins the Presidency.   The other politicians will protect Obama and his aides — but not Trump.   Remember: Trump is the guy who publicly questioned Obama’s birth certificate.   He questioned Obama’s college records and how a mediocre student got into an Ivy League university.   Now, he’s doing something no Republican has the chutzpah to do.   He’s questioning our relationship with Mexico; he’s questioning why the border is wide open; he’s questioning why no wall has been built across the border; he’s questioning if allowing millions of illegal aliens into America is in our best interests; he’s questioning why so many illegal aliens commit violent crimes, yet are not deported; and he’s questioning why our trade deals with Mexico, Russia and China are so bad.
 
Trump has the audacity to ask out loud why American workers always get the short end of the stick.   Good question!   I’m certain Trump will question what happened to the almost billion dollars given in a rigged no-bid contract to college friends of Michelle Obama at foreign companies to build the defective Obamacare website.   By the way, that tab is now up to $5 billion.   Trump will ask if Obamacare’s architects can be charged with fraud for selling it by lying.   Trump will investigate Obama’s widespread IRS conspiracy, not to mention Obama’s college records.   Trump will prosecute  Clinton and Obama for fraud committed to cover up Benghazi before the election.   How about the fraud committed by employees of the Labor Department when they made up dramatic job numbers in the last jobs report before the 2012 election?
 
Obama, the multinational corporations, and the media need to stop Trump.   They recognize this could get out of control.   If left unchecked, telling the raw truth and asking questions everyone else is afraid to ask, Trump could wake a sleeping giant.   Trump’s election would be a nightmare.   Obama has committed many crimes.   No one else but Trump would dare to prosecute.   He will not hesitate.   Once Trump gets in and gets a look at “the cooked books” and Obama’s records, the game is over.   The gig is up.  The goose is cooked.   Holder could wind up in prison. Jarrett could wind up in prison.   Obama bundler Corzine could wind up in prison for losing $1.5 billion of customer money.   Clinton could wind up in jail for deleting 32,000 emails, or for accepting bribes from foreign governments while Secretary of State, or for “misplacing” $6 billion as the head of the State Department, or for lying about Benghazi.   The entire upper level management of the IRS could wind up in prison.
 
Obamacare will be defunded and dismantled.   And Obama himself could wind up ruined, his legacy in tatters.   Trump will investigate. Trump will prosecute.   Trump will go after everyone involved.   That’s why the dogs of hell have been unleashed on Donald Trump.   Yes, it’s become open season on Donald Trump.   The left and the right are determined to attack his policies, harm his businesses, and, if possible, even keep him out of the coming debates.   But they can’t silence him.   And they sure can’t intimidate him.   The more they try, the more the public will realize that he’s the one telling the truth.
 

[dinosnake]

And they said the same thing about the NSDAP in the election of 1932.  Strangely...or not...the demogougry is almost exactly the same.

Live, yet don't learn.

[Patrick]

And they said the same thing about the NSDAP in the election of 1932.  Strangely...or not...the demogougry is almost exactly the same.

Live, yet don't learn.

Comparing this to the nazi party during the depression. Tell us why you think this the same. As usual, I don't understand the reasoning.

[Serk]

And they said the same thing about the NSDAP in the election of 1932.  Strangely...or not...the demogougry is almost exactly the same.

Live, yet don't learn.

It's a little early to go full Godwin's Law and say Obama is a full blown Hitler protege, but I can definitely see your point of view and see how Obama and his followers definitely have a lot of parallels to the 1930's brownshirts...

[Jess from VA]

Indeed, we don't have a gun problem, we have a criminal problem..... and a politician problem.

[Serk]

we have a criminal problem..... and a politician problem.

...but you repeat yourself...

[Gavin_Sons]

but, but, but....... you conservatives are making too much sense. Wont a pen and piece of paper with the criminals signature and a series of questions stop them? What? you mean they dont buy their guns legally, cant be so.

[The emperor has no clothes]

Wouldn't you need to be a botanist to provide an excellent analysis of tree facts ?

[dinosnake]

And they said the same thing about the NSDAP in the election of 1932.  Strangely...or not...the demogougry is almost exactly the same.

Live, yet don't learn.

It's a little early to go full Godwin's Law and say Obama is a full blown Hitler protege, but I can definitely see your point of view and see how Obama and his followers definitely have a lot of parallels to the 1930's brownshirts...

OH PLEASE.

So let's compare Trump to NSDAP, for those in denial:

NSDAP v Trump

- country is worse now than before : Y vs Y
- country was sold out by interests and ethic groups: Y vs Y
- moral values of country being corrupted by immigrants / ethnic groups: Y vs Y
- said groups should be removed as they are the cause of your dispair: Y vs Y
- demoguagry and open vitriol against opponents: Y vs Y
- increase military profile and worldwide status, using nationalism to the point of wanton chest-thumping: Y vs Y

The only thing Trump has missed out on is the final link, coupling of business directly with national interests.  As this is not the case, using that ugly and charged word, "fascist", would be a personal slur and wholly untrue.  But he has pulled out the old, tired playbook again, it is eaiser to point and blame in order to rally people to a cause than just about any other method.

[GiG]

It's a little early to go full Godwin's Law and say Obama is a full blown Hitler protege, but I can definitely see your point of view and see how Obama and his followers definitely have a lot of parallels to the 1930's brownshirts...


The only thing Trump has missed out on is the final link, coupling of business directly with national interests.  As this is not the case, using that ugly and charged word, "fascist", would be a personal slur and wholly untrue.  But he has pulled out the old, tired playbook again, it is eaiser to point and blame in order to rally people to a cause than just about any other method.

Barry has already done this, so no need to insult the brownshirts 

[GiG]

EXCELLENT articles "Pete" & "Tallrider" 
Good reading, hard to disagree with any of it.
Thanks for posting on our "General (Political) Board" 

[Disco]

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