Its just so predictable that self-hating leftists will retreat to the "I blame Trump'' mantra in an attempt to excuse their failures and ineptitudes. Liberals hate US citizens, US citizens who exercise their right, and they despise hard sentencing laws because liberals identify with criminals. Criminals are the darlings of the left because the self-hating left presumes the Great Satan is the root of all evil.
Naw, man, I hate US citizens who let irresponsible people get guns, and we have to mold our entire society around gun-toting maniacs. Children should not have to walk through metal detectors to get to class and do active shooter drills. We shouldn't have to put up with trigger happy cops who shoot first and ask questions later because they can't tell the difference between a gun and a cell phone.
Crime is a reflection of our failures...
Self-hating leftists rationalize the acts of criminals, the darlings of the left, by screeching ''it’s the law that’s bad'', society is unjust, that the criminal is being unfairly persecuted. Not coincidently, that's exactly the same sort of rationalization that every criminal uses. It’s not surprising then that self-hating leftists will identify with the criminal rather than the victim.
Actually, the law is bad if you can't enforce it. So let's look at the premise of the Ammosexuals. "My gun isn't the problem (unless my wife burns the pot roast!), it's those guns possessed by criminals. Lock them up!!!"
But we lock up 2 million people. Our courts are clogged with people in jail awaiting trial, most of them (big surprise) people of color who couldn't afford bail. We throw someone in jail for just having a gun, it means we have to let someone else out because we don't have room for them. Which is why we have 5 million people on probation or parole, and 100 million Americans with a police record that limits their job opportunities.
While "Punishing the darkies" might make you feel good, as a policy, it's counterproductive. It actually makes things worse.
It was predictable that you ran for cover when you used ''NationMaster'' as a source without ever checking the veracity of the data. You realized quickly that what you hoped to convey was contradicted by your own source. You do have this habit of making baseless claims and then when refuted, you retreat to the, ''but... but... but... but what about....'' Take responsibility for what you cut and paste,
You picked one stat instead of reading through ALL the states, probably because you didn't have the mental bandwidth to process the data. That's really not impressive. If you look at ALL the compared stats, the US does worse in nearly every last one of them, particularly the violent crimes.
Do you really think a pie chart from ''prisonpolicy'' is a credible source?
Um, yeah, given that they research the issue, it's very credible. As opposed to a whacky website like Breitbart that has no one in the UK and just repeats crap from racist groups over there.
What is the purpose of a graph showing firearm ownership in the US? Is that supposed to convey some frantic leftist talking point?
It shows the problem.
You see, in the past, very few people owned guns. They didn't need them. So you had 40 million guns in the hands of some 140 million Americans in 1945. Most of those were hunting rifles.
Then this funny thing happened. First, hunting fell out of favor as a sport. Turns out that torturing and killing animals isn't actually a sport, it's more a sign of psychopathy. Who knew? Second, the gun industry started flooding our streets with guns hoping to gin up enough fear to make more people want to buy them.
And of course, when a Democrat gets elected, the first thing they blurt out is "Biden is going to take your guns, better rush out and buy more!!!!"
So we have more guns than people, the gun industry realizes the mentally unstable are their prime market, and you wonder why we have gun violence?
