Cowboy Confessional

ABC news, which was marginally reliable before Peter Jennings puffed his last breath, has now sunk to a journalistic low previously unknown outside of Dan Rather’s alleged mind.

This evening ABC pandered to the Bloomberg clique of inept mayors who are blaming guns and trafficking for their inability, or more likely their unwillingness, to put enough cops in bad neighborhoods to stop gang members from using one another for target practice. 

Philly’s City Councilman Darrel Clarke, a man of marginal linguistic ability, struggled to articulate his inane notion that state law — that treats everyone in Pennsylvania equally — prevents him from enacting gun control, and said restrictions would have an effect on Philly violence.

It is instructive to examine other large cities from other states that also have uniform state-wide gun law preemption.  If lack of local civil rights violations were a determining factor in violent crime, then other large cities in other preemptive states should have similar crime rates.  But from the table below we see that there is something simply wrong with Philly (and almost as bad with Dallas).

We see that Philly is a hell hole, with all varieties of violent crime rocketing past any definition of civil society. Rates of rape are three times higher than New York.  Aggravated assaults are twice that of San Diego.  And Philly’s murder rate is off the charts.  And yet they are not by law treated any differently than most other large cities when it comes to regulating gun ownership.

The good people of Philadelphia should go to city hall, stand on Councilman Clarke’s desk, and scream loudly into his festering face until he puts enough cops in their neighborhoods to prevent thugs from owning the streets.

But he won’t do that.  Doing real work is too hard for politicians who prefer easy headlines hyped by those who play at being reporters.

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