Bob gave me this story and some ideas on the spin.
A Fort Worth man faces a murder charge in the stabbing death of his 19-year-old girlfriend, and his 67-year-old grandmother was also arrested, accused of helping him flee police.
So we have the murder weapon, which is a knife, of course flies under the cold-blooded “Progressives” where “Progress” is a stabbed body rather than a shot one. But the bigger picture to me and Bob was Gran’Ma helping the fugitive.
Is the tool at all relevant when you have a network of family and friends willing to help you get away with murder.
I linked this article a few posts ago. In Boston 70% of all murders go unsolved. This is not because we have some sort of Hollywood serial killer master-mind lurking in Dorchester, but that the areas with the highest violent crime rate are controlled by the gangs. First up the Police don’t want to go there if they don’t need to. (Frankly I don’t blame them, you couldn’t pay me enough to go into those sections of town….let alone go into those sections of town wearing a badge and a uniform) And the gang infrastructure is HUGE. So if Mookie shoots Ice-Dawg in a turf war, there might be a dozen witnesses the way the buildings are packed together….but nobody will talk to the police because
#1. If Mookie finds out he’s going to kill you.
#2. If Mookie ends up getting put away before he can kill you, Mookie’s gang compatriots will kill you.
#3. if they can’t find you they’ll kill your family and burn your house down.
Does it matter the tools they have when they have an entire support network for violent crimes?
Weer’d,
And in many times, the situation is even simpler then that
In many times we have parents teaching children that violence is an acceptable answer to someone ‘dissing’ you by walking through your ‘turf’.
In many times, we have parents teaching children that armed robbery is an acceptable way to get what is your due.
In many times, we have parents teaching children that violence is the first response to conflict instead of the last.
When we have parents like this, is it really the ‘tool’ that is the problem?
exactly my point. Regulate tools and items all you want, and leave the problem alone it won’t solve anything.
To make a medical analogy you wife is undergoing chemotherapy right now. Why? Because removing of the visible tumors without taking steps to eliminate any unseen cancer cells won’t do much to cure the disease.
But if you treat the underlying problem then you’re looking at freedom from the disease.
If we regulate guns, or knives, or bottles, or sticks, it won’t do anything as guns, knives, bottles, and sticks don’t do ANYTHING on their own, or in the hands of peaceful law-abiding people. But in the hands of a violent person with no regard for human life the simplest of every-day items like an ash-tray, a drinking glass, a screwdriver, a framing hammer, a piece of stone, a balled fist, can all be employed as a deadly weapon.