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Hideous Liars Lying About Guns, by Jon Rappoport

Posted on May 27, 2022 | Leave a comment

To start straightening the tangled web of lies about guns from those who want to regulate or ban private ownership, you have to look at who is actually using the guns. Here’s a hint: it’s not the people from whom they want to take the guns. From Jon Rappoport at lewrockwell.com:

What people don’t know, don’t want to know, are too naïve to believe, and are too scared to say

“After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.” — William Burroughs

We’re looking at a grotesque con here. A hustle. And the predatory politicians lying about guns know they’re lying. They’re disgusting. Repulsive. Sane people can smell the stench rising from them miles away.

First of all, 99% of the people who own guns—I don’t care what kinds of guns—don’t shoot other people. They don’t.

So a legitimate politician who has eyes to see and is honest—there are a few—would say this:

“I’m going to show you where most of the gun crimes in America are committed. I’m talking about murder, I’m talking about wounding, I’m talking about armed robberies, and I’m also talking about places where the residents live under constant daily fear of people shooting guns.”

This would clear the air.

It would also put mass spree shootings in proper perspective, since they account for only a fraction of ongoing chronic gun crimes.

So…on a map, what areas do you think this honest politician would circle? Where are most of the gun crimes being committed—not because the guns are going off by themselves, but because actual people are shooting them.

I assume you know. Inner cities. Saint Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, etc.

Who are the people doing most of the shooting in those cities?

Gangs.

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As BLM Protests Raged, Chicago Saw Highest Black-On-Black Murder Rate In 60 Years, by Tyler Durden

Posted on June 9, 2020 | Leave a comment

Black lives do matter, and so obviously does the murder of blacks, whether they’re murdered by a Minneapolis policeman or a Chicago gang member. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:

The group of University of Chicago researchers have confirmed numbers from Sunday, May 31, which the Crime Lab now says is the single most violent day on historical record: 18 dead and 85 wounded by gunfire. The record was previously at 13 people murdered on a single day on Aug. 4, 1991.

“From 7 p.m. Friday, May 29, through 11 p.m. Sunday, May 31, 25 people were killed in the city, with another 85 wounded by gunfire, according to data maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times.”

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The Cost of Illegal Immigration, by Ruthie Blum

Posted on February 5, 2018 | 1 comment

The annual costs of illegal immigration to local, state, and the federal government are far higher than the one-time cost of building a wall. From Ruthie Blum at gatestoneinstitute.org:

  • “At the federal, state, and local levels, taxpayers shell out approximately $134.9 billion to cover the costs incurred by the presence of more than 12.5 million illegal aliens, and about 4.2 million citizen children of illegal aliens.” — Matt O’Brien and Spencer Raley.
  • It is also rather more than the single payment of $25 billion that it will cost to build a wall — five and a half times more, and every year.
  • “Undocumented immigrants are at least 142% more likely to be convicted of a crime than other Arizonans. They also tend to commit more serious crimes…” — John R. Lott.
  • In 2015, included in the DEA’s drug-threat assessment was the fact that drug overdoses killed more people in the United States than car accidents or guns. Many of these drugs [were] smuggled in large volumes by drug cartels.”

In his State of the Union address on January 30, US President Donald J. Trump referred to the brutal murder of two 16-year-old girls from Long Island in December 2016 by members of the “savage MS-13 gang,” responsible for a spate of other gruesome killings in the area, as well.

Many of these gang members, he explained, had entered the United States illegally. “For decades, open borders have allowed drugs and gangs to pour into our most vulnerable communities,” he said.

Calling on Congress “to finally close the deadly loopholes that have allowed… criminal gangs to break into our country,” he listed the four pillars of his immigration-reform proposal:

  • A path to citizenship for 1.8 million illegal immigrants who were brought to America by their parents.
  • The construction of a “great wall on the southern border” and enforcement by agents patrolling and securing the border.
  • Ending the visa lottery, “a program that randomly plans out green cards without regard for skill, merit, for the safety of American people.”
  • Ending the “current, broken system” of chain migration of distant relatives, and limiting sponsorships to spouses and minor children.

To continue reading: The Cost of Illegal Immigration

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Congress Passed a Bill to Deport Suspected ‘Gang’ Members — There’s Just One Problem, by Sarah Cronin

Posted on September 24, 2017 | Leave a comment

The effects of a law often hinge on its definitions. From Sarah Cronin at theantimedia.org:

Last week the House passed a bill to expand the government’s ability to deport immigrants on the basis of alleged gang affiliation. Promoted by Republicans as a way to target members of gangs such as the transnational M13 gang, H.R. 3697, the “Criminal Alien Gang Member Removal Act,” amends the Immigration and Nationality Act by adding gang affiliation to the list of criminal offenses that qualify as grounds for detention and deportation.

The bill passed 233 – 175 with almost unanimous Republican support and now must gain approval in the Senate, where it is currently pending in the Committee on the Judiciary. While the bill still has yet to come to a vote in Senate, it has already gained the presidential nod of approval. Shortly following the bill’s passage, the White House Press Secretary published a statement applauding Congress’ decision, and the administration already affirmed that “If H.R. 3697 were presented to the president in its current form, his advisors would recommend that he sign the bill into law,” according to a  statement of administrative policy published last Tuesday.

The bill has received strong criticism from House Democrats and organizations such as the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who claim the bill provides the government with sweeping discretion to detain and deport immigrants using a broad and arbitrary label.

The bulk of the debate on the bill revolves around how it defines ‘gangs.’ The bill defines a gang as any group of five or more people that has as one of its primary purposes the commission of one or more specified criminal offenses. The bill goes on to expand on these ‘criminal offenses’ to include felony drug offenses, which would include the possession of marijuana. It also explicitly names the ‘harboring’ of undocumented immigrants as a crime.

This means, theoretically, that any organization that helps, shelters, or hires undocumented immigrants could be considered a gang, and thus any immigrant member of such group could theoretically be detained or deported as a gang member.

To continue reading: Congress Passed a Bill to Deport Suspected ‘Gang’ Members — There’s Just One Problem

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