Kevin Williamson - Gun Control Reality
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Great article, maybe the best I've read in a long time about why the political world is upside down. People I know that are anti-gun liberals (nearly all of them) project the image he described......Midwestern white middle-class, as gospel. They understand nothing about the culture and activities of people who hunt, fish, camp out and generally enjoy the outdoors to its fullest. They don't understand why people like guns and the utilitarian value therein. They think guns only existence to cause harm.
It reminds me a lot of the numerous episodes of the First 48 I have seen (wonder why they have never shot the episodes in Chicago). People complained that it was disproportionally unfair to minorities because the killer(s) were often black, repeat offenders and generally sociopaths (none of the criminals were very bright either, except for street smarts). I suspect this is why at every commercial break and at the end of the program now they have the disclaimer about charges often being reduced or dropped. But the reality is in the inner-cities, crime like that is through the roof, so a show based on finding killers is located where numerous murders occur......and often they are in urban shitholes. You wouldn't hunt polar bears in the Sonoran Desert and you wouldn't film a show about finding murderers in Slick OK, but you would film it in Birmingham, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix and sadly now even Tulsa because that's where lots and lots of murders happen. This articles points out that there is a reason mass shootings pull all the regular actors out of the woodwork, but a few killings here in there (like Chicago) don't even hit the radar screen.
Amazing gun possession is a misdemeanor in Chicago...wow! I think it's a felony in NYC and additional time for each round as well.
It reminds me a lot of the numerous episodes of the First 48 I have seen (wonder why they have never shot the episodes in Chicago). People complained that it was disproportionally unfair to minorities because the killer(s) were often black, repeat offenders and generally sociopaths (none of the criminals were very bright either, except for street smarts). I suspect this is why at every commercial break and at the end of the program now they have the disclaimer about charges often being reduced or dropped. But the reality is in the inner-cities, crime like that is through the roof, so a show based on finding killers is located where numerous murders occur......and often they are in urban shitholes. You wouldn't hunt polar bears in the Sonoran Desert and you wouldn't film a show about finding murderers in Slick OK, but you would film it in Birmingham, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix and sadly now even Tulsa because that's where lots and lots of murders happen. This articles points out that there is a reason mass shootings pull all the regular actors out of the woodwork, but a few killings here in there (like Chicago) don't even hit the radar screen.
Amazing gun possession is a misdemeanor in Chicago...wow! I think it's a felony in NYC and additional time for each round as well.
Bingo. If the producers of the show were disproportionately singling out minorities to air you'd have all the race baiters forcing this show off the air. Reality is that in metropolitan areas an overwhelming percent of violent crimes are perpetrated by minorities against other minorities. Another fact brought out in these programs is the utter stupidity of the perpetrators.
