Posted on 06/05/2008 2:05:31 PM PDT by neverdem
Well, we HAVE to do SOMETHING!!! I know...let’s make it harder for good citizens to acquire weapons. That’ll fix it right! OK...next problem...SSZ
Hey, Chief............why don’t you enforce the laws already on the books? Guns are NOT the problem. You’ve got a criminal problem. Talk to the Judges who let them off.
Why don’t the police go into the trouble areas with dogs and sniff all the guns out. Then run the numbers on the guns and arrest the people who were in possession of stolen or illegally purchased weapons. If the guns aren’t stolen, but are not at the house of the current owner, contact the owner and find out how the gun got there. If there isn’t a good explanation, put that person on a straw buyer’s watch list.
Dear Polics Chief, you stay away from my guns, and I will stay away from yours. Are we going to have a problem here?
I wonder if they’ve given any thought to passing a law against shooting people.
Did this actually go to print like this?
Oh no! That might actually help alleviate the problem. It's much easier and politically correct to punish the law abiding citizen. Don't want to be called racist ya know. It reminds me of when I was in school. Some moron in class would hit the teacher in the back of the head with an erasure while he had his back to the class writing on the blackboard. The teacher's punishment was to give the whole class detention.
I’m sure those gangbangers will be happy to comply with any new gun laws.
Did this actually go to print like this?
Yes. I post them as I find them, except to correct blatant typos.
My impression is that the police chief was addressing when there is a crime which obviously had witnesses, no one will come forward to be a witness. For these communities crying about crime, it's worse to be a snitch for the "man." We will hear these ignorant arguments for gun control until that situation changes.
Mark
How about a new police chief?
Even if you COULD ban handguns, you would still have gangs. Doesn’t that seem to be the fundamental problem?
Get the pols to outlaw crime, chiefm might work.
How about tighter criminal laws?! Instead of going after an inanimate object.
Bill why don’t you call the police dept. and tell them to go to work.
He sure picked the wrong part of the country to call for that.
“The community’s the one that’s going to have to address the problems,” the police chief said.
Whetsel said community involvement and support is “absolutely integral” to law enforcement efforts to apprehend lawbreakers and prevent gang-related violent crime.
“We have a very coordinated law enforcement approach,” the sheriff said. “But our efforts are stymied without the support of the citizens.”
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Note to the sheriff and the chief:
It makes it hard for the citizens to trust you when you are trying to restrict their rights and make it harder for them to get self-defense tools. If they don’t trust you, they will not support you.
Take away the citizens’ guns and you will have a crime rate like Washington, DC.
MORE GUNS = LESS CRIME!!!!
“Police Chief Bill Citty “
He’s got all the laws he needs. He is just looking to blame someone else for his failure for not using them.
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