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For public safety, it's a golden age
Chicago Tribune ^
| 25 dec 2011
| Steve Chapman
Posted on 12/25/2011 7:34:30 AM PST by rellimpank
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--and in the meantime, firearms ownership has increased tremendously---
To: rellimpank
OWS and Air Jordan crimes included? I don’t think so.
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posted on
12/25/2011 7:38:32 AM PST
by
duckman
(Herman 2012 was Zero's worst night mare.)
To: rellimpank
Thee 1950s are often recalled as a golden age in American life. That is because back then only about 10% of public officials were corrupt. Now I firmly believe it is over 95%. maybe even closer to 100%.
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posted on
12/25/2011 7:39:44 AM PST
by
Tupelo
( 2012 TEA PARTYER but no longer a Republican)
To: rellimpank
We need wholesome TV shows now. But the punks in Hollywood couldn’t produce a wholesome show to save their lives.
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posted on
12/25/2011 7:40:32 AM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: rellimpank
Remove the rhetoric and the facts don’t support the contrived perception.
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posted on
12/25/2011 7:41:13 AM PST
by
umgud
To: rellimpank
The only thing ( besides higher gun ownership) that happened is that most of the ‘yoots’, that commit 95% of crime, are now concentrated in big city slums.
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posted on
12/25/2011 7:41:51 AM PST
by
Beagle8U
(Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
To: rellimpank
An armed society is a polite society.Especially after the vermin have been taken out with the trash.
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posted on
12/25/2011 7:43:36 AM PST
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: rellimpank
“But the truth is our streets are safer than they have been in a long time.”
Speaking as someone in the security business, I know this statement to be false.
To: rellimpank
This drives me crazy.
The reason that crime rates SEEM to be down is that the reporting rules have changed for political reasons.
You want to live well?
Bring back the mores of the Fifties.
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posted on
12/25/2011 7:45:32 AM PST
by
amihow
To: rellimpank
Desperate Chicago Liberal — HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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posted on
12/25/2011 7:49:39 AM PST
by
pabianice
(")
To: rellimpank
We had home invasion this year. Reported it, but it never made the TV or the paper.
How many times does this happen every day?
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posted on
12/25/2011 7:50:41 AM PST
by
Red in Blue PA
(Let's apply the "reasonable man" standard to gun laws. How many would stand?)
To: rellimpank
How many crimes are not reported because the victims know with absolute certainty that nothing will be done about them?
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posted on
12/25/2011 7:52:39 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
('People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
To: rellimpank
The crimes have shifted to the lobbies and back rooms opf state capitals and Washington, rules and laws changed to make things that were once illegal legal, and the reporting method used by the FBI and Just Us Department under-report true crimes. So yeah - let’s celebrate a drop in crime.....
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posted on
12/25/2011 7:52:39 AM PST
by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all......)
To: rellimpank
that and the fact the L$M would never say anything about crime with the boy still in office...
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posted on
12/25/2011 7:52:45 AM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: rellimpank
What the hell is this? Some sort of Jedi mind trick?
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posted on
12/25/2011 7:53:07 AM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: rellimpank
--and in the meantime, firearms ownership has increased tremendously--- Exactamundo.
Pesonally, I believe that this fact jusxtaposed with..."the latest evidence...that in the first half of 2011, violent crimes were down 6.4 percent, while property crimes fell 3.7 percent....murder declined by 5.7 percent, rape by 5.1 percent, and robbery by 7.7 percent"...pretty well proves Heinlein's maxim, "An armed society is a polite society."
But try telling that to any standard Liberal Whack Job.
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posted on
12/25/2011 7:56:08 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Some folks need an education...don't give up or we'll lose the Nation - Grand Funk Railroad)
To: Tupelo
In the 1950’s government was about half the size it is now.
To: rellimpank
Even by Steve Chapman’s standards, this is a moronic article. How many murders were there in Chicago this year?
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posted on
12/25/2011 8:00:38 AM PST
by
bwc2221
To: rellimpank
Another possible reason for reporting low crime: ‘They’ would be more justified in mandating greater restrictions on firearm ownership because we don’t need weapons anymore, because crime is so low.
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posted on
12/25/2011 8:00:56 AM PST
by
1_Of_We
To: Beagle8U
My little town has a nearly zero crime rate and as a result we have a county patrol car roll through here about once a week.
When you lose the crime, you lose the police as well.
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posted on
12/25/2011 8:04:42 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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