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If there is one thing that is certain, whenever the progressive socialist left blames and accuses others, they are only projecting who they truly are. How amazing that now we have the leftists trying to tie Americans of Asian heritage to white supremacy over the SCOTUS decision on affirmative action. Those who know history know that the Democrat party has always been the party of racism, white supremacy, and bigotry. They are just very good at, with the aid of a complicit media, casting that dark specter upon others. And now they are seeking to use this same tactic in shifting blame for violence with firearms.
Last week on Independence Day, a deranged cross-dressing biological black male, I will not use their name, decided to gun down innocent people in Philadelphia. It was comical to witness the leftist media avoid, at all costs, describing the shooter since it did not meet their narrative litmus test. How insidious it was that they even tried to attribute the recent shooting at the Allen Texas mall to white supremacy … the shooter was Hispanic. Or how about the shooter in Nashville, Tennessee, who gunned down six, including three nine-year-old children? Yep, they were quick to move away from that shooter, not to mention the delay in the release of her manifesto … yes, I said her, a biological female suffering from the mental condition of gender dysphoria.
We could go into the shootings in Baltimore, the incessant violence in Chicago, or any urban population center. However, the issue is never about the shooter, who, in the case of the recent Philadelphia shooter, did not have a permit to own firearms. The leftists always pivot back to the tool used by these evil persons and how that must be controlled. Leftists constantly tip their hands in that they do not wish to solve this issue. They only want legal, law-abiding gun owners punished. Criminals do not abide by laws. Not a single one of my weapons has ever walked out of the gun closet, loaded itself, and embarked upon a shooting rampage.
It was quite “special” to watch the Philadelphia DA, Larry Krasner, follow suit with the Baltimore Mayor, Brandon Scott, in blaming violence with firearms on “Red States.” This follows along with the incompetent assertion by Hillary Clinton of a “Red State” gun violence issue. Yes, the left is trying to assert that red states are more dangerous and the root cause of murders. Do not forget that former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot consistently blamed Indiana for the shootings in Windy City.
Perhaps it is time to dust off the report that was done last year, November 4, 2022, by the Heritage Foundation titled “Blue City Murder Problem” by Charles D. Stinson, Zack Smith, and Kevin D. Dayaratna, Ph.D. It is a very concise, to-the-point study of nineteen pages that debunks this leftist insanity, no, lie. The key takeaways are, “The left’s claim that America has a red state murder problem is misleading and deflects from progressive soft-on-crime policies. New analysis of crime data shows that high-crime counties are governed largely by Democrats, driving up crime rates in otherwise red states.” The final recommended solution has nothing to do with “gun control” measures, which are already rather stringent in these leftist jurisdictions. The researchers conclude, “Lowering America’s rising crime rates requires that localities repudiate their pro-criminal, anti-victim policies that contribute to lawlessness in blue counties [cities].”
I do give the left credit; they continue to push this false narrative, as their accomplices in the media will allow them. However, it is time we are armed with facts to refute their absurdity.
The Heritage Report listed the top 30 cities with the highest homicide rates as of June 2022. In that list, the top 21 cities had Democrat Mayors. Only three of the top 30 did not have Democratic Mayors at the time of the analysis; Lexington, KY (#22, Rep), Jacksonville, FL (#23, Rep), and Las Vegas, NV (#27, Ind). In total, as of June 2022, there were 2,554 homicides in these 30 cities. But what is quite revealing is that 14 of the 30 cities listed have District Attorneys who were backed by George Soros. These 14 cities represented 1,752 of the homicides of the total list of 2,554 (top 30 homicide cities). That represents 68% of the total homicides in the list of 30 cities.
Therefore, the worst of the worst are the Soros-backed County DA jurisdictions. I actually live in one of those Counties, Dallas, where the City is number 19 on the list of 30, and the Soros-backed DA is John Creuzot.
These are facts. This reminds me of the famous quote attributed to New York liberal Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, “You are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.” If we were to carve out blue cities, we would see a very impactful drop in violent crimes in America. The funny thing is that these same leftists want to disarm law-abiding Americans while they enact these pro-criminal policies, as well as allow the illegal entry of millions of people into our communities.
Back in April 1775, England tried to impose gun control on the Sons of Liberty in Massachusetts. It did not end up well then … and it will not now. And when you talk about white supremacy, well, it was the Democrat party that refused gun rights to Blacks, recently freed slaves, and founded our Country’s first domestic terrorist organization, the Ku Klux Klan, to enforce that policy. Heck, it was Democrats who denied Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. a gun permit. That’s a fact, not an opinion.
Violence with guns, semi-automatic handguns or rifles, is not a MAGA Republican problem … It is a blue city and county problem that is not solved by disarmament. It is solved by ridding ourselves of progressive socialists in city and county elected positions and restoring the rule of law. Then we can have the blessings of liberty and, indeed, Live Free and safe.
Steadfast and Loyal.
Jeff Bargholz says
No matter how many leftists go on shooting sprees, they blame guns. They’re very ridiculous people but they’re dangerous in more ways than one.
David Ray says
What’s fascinating is how the Democrat run cities of Detroit & Baltimore have been turned into waste-dump hellscapes.
It took leftist mayors & governors years to turn once-great-cities into criminal cesspools, yet, as these cities kept sliding further into 3rd world decay, the chickenshit democrats kept getting reelected.
(Needless to say, any city run by leftist democrats, are sliding into ruin. Baltimore & Detroit have my vote for the worst of the ash heaps.)
Kasandra says
Believe it or not, the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., is trying hard to join this cohort of dangerous Dem-run cities.
Donald Kosloff says
For many years Washington, D.C. was at the top, or near the top of the annual lists of murderous cities. It had murder rates higher than 400, and has seldom had murder rates lower than 80 per 100,000 people
David Ray says
Back in the 90’s, DC students had the lowest test scores, yet had the MOST spent per student.
(Mississippi inherited the last Test Scores per student later.)
So you have a solid point.
Brian Tunney says
Same with Baltimore
Paul says
Add St.Louis and New Orleans; however there are many more.
Jay C Ess says
Many conservatives remain in a perpetual state of denial as to the evil manipulative pathological nature of progressive Leftists, and are frequently shocked and amazed by their behavior and projections.
Projection is the trade craft of the Left, and while conservatives demonstrate the occasional ability to recognize it, they predictably respond with a “freeze” response followed by cathartic verbal outrage in their favored echo chamber. All talk no action. And another day passes, and For all practical purposes, Leftists operate unopposed.
Ron Wasserman says
Without a single exception, gun control groups never even talk about punishing criminals for gun crime. Worse, their activities bolster the pro-criminal policies of the well-known soft-on-crime DA’s, by focusing their ire against law-abiding owners..
David Ray says
Hunter Biden proves your point.
10ffgrid says
Excellent article Allen West !
BettyO says
Thank you, Col. West.
Readers, forward this article to everyone.
Jay says
Taxachusetts, the birthplace of the American Revolution, is about to pass HD4420 making firearms ownership more than “infringed”. Practically an all out ban on everything. How far we’ve sunk.
SPURWING PLOVER says
They always want to blame Guns Gun Owners Gun Store the Gun Lobby Etc. on all mass shootings that happens they never want to blame the one that did it we have that annoying little prick Hogg and his band of Useful Idiots from March for Our Lives Every town for Gun Safety Etc. and It Bleeds it leads Media