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Whitaker's Current Articles July 12, 2003
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Fun Quote:
From a bumper sticker:
“To err is human.”
“To forgive is divine.”
“Neither is Marine Corps policy.”
Mandatory
Sentencing is Only For Violations of Political Correctness
Liberals oppose all mandatory sentencing for
crimes against persons or property. But they have a consistent
mandatory sentence for violations of Political Correctness.
No respectable conservative will ever mention
this in a debate over mandatory sentencing.
There was a case in Britain called "The Crown
versus Joseph Pierce" (1986). Pierce was accused of
"inciting racial hatred." The case got a lot of attention because
the court declared that, when it comes to race hate, “The truth is no excuse.”
So the court gave Pierce the mandatory one
year sentence.
In New York a person with no previous record
gets a mandatory one year sentence for carrying a weapon for
self-protection.
In France and German, a first offense for
contradicting any Politically Correct statement about the Holocaust
carries a mandatory one year sentence.
Liberals say that the longest journey begins
with a single year.
The "Blood Bath" That Never Happened
Liberals point out that Europe and Japan have
rigid gun laws and low gun crime. But Switzerland has millions of
privately owned guns and no more gun crime than any other European
country. Lately there was a school shooting in Germany, but there
haven’t been any in Switzerland.
No respectable conservative ever brings up
Switzerland.
Twelve years ago there was a national debate over
laws to allow honest citizens to obtain concealed weapons permits.
Almost every liberal shrieked that, if
states allowed concealed weapons permits, there would
be, and I quote, “a blood bath”, unquote.
Soon a majority of states passed those
concealed weapons permit laws. Nothing happened.
So for the first year liberals were saying that the "blood bath"
would begin soon.
Liberals haven't said a word about that "blood
bath" for almost a decade.
No liberal and no respectable conservative
has ever mentioned that "blood bath" in all those years.
Leftism
Would be Discredited If Respectable Conservatives Reminded Liberals
of Their Predictions
No liberal prediction ever comes true, but no
respectable conservative ever reminds them of their predictions.
That’s how you become respectable.
If you want to be allowed to make your living
in the media, you cannot embarrass liberals
But what has happened with concealed weapons
permits over the last ten years is not just the usual embarrassment
to liberals that respectable conservatives protect them from. What
has actually happened with concealed weapons permits would be a
breakthrough, breath-taking news story if anybody ever reported it.
There have been hundreds of thousands of
concealed weapons permits issued over the past decade. The result
of giving respectable people the right to carry weapons in America
has been exactly the same as it has been in Switzerland.
We are speaking of millions of years of honest
citizens legally carrying concealed weapons, multiplying hundreds of thousands of permit holders by the
number of years they have had these permits.
There have been NO violations! I did not say
there had been no bloodbath. I did not even say the permits have
not caused a single wrongful death in ten years. I said there has
been NO misuse of permits that caused any real trouble anywhere!
Gun
Crime Depends Entirely on Who Has the Guns
The case of Switzerland and our years of
experience with concealed weapons permits demonstrate that the misuse of guns only occurs
when bad people have them.
Does anybody really believe that any criminal
who wants a gun can’t get one because of a gun law?
Come on, world! The reason a person is a
criminal is because he doesn’t OBEY laws.
So the experience of permit holders and
Switzerland just confirms what any person who is not actually
mentally retarded would expect: if good people have guns, crime goes
down, not up.
Nobody is going to march into a store in
Switzerland and start shooting. Somebody there probably has a
gun and will kill the terrorist with it.
Terrorists do their shooting in gun-free zones,
where honest people obey the anti-gun laws and terrorists –
surprise, surprise!! – don’t.
The leftist stand for taking guns away from
honest people shows once again that leftism is not “the other side” in a rational
debate. Leftism is mentally retarded.
Respectable conservatism respects liberal
intelligence. It is retarded, too.
We Need Discrimination!
According to liberals, if a repeat offender
doesn’t have the same rights as everybody else, we are all doomed.
Meanwhile, back on earth, honest people should
have guns and criminals should not.
In other words, what is true is exactly what
the lawyers say is not true. Lawyers say that the rules
must protect
everybody equally. Reality says that rights need to depend heavily
on the individual’s history.
In one case, a nineteen year old killed four
people running away from the police in a car. He had been arrested
EIGHTEEN TIMES for the same offence.
We keep being told that we need to do something
for hardened criminals in prison because they will soon be back
among us. Liberals say, "You can’t keep them locked up forever."
Why not?
I was watching an episode of “COPS” where a
young guy was laughing at going back to jail again. He had been
there so often it was a joke.
To stop crime, what we desperately need is just
what all the leftist lawyers like Alan Dershowitz tell us we cannot
have: some discrimination between crooks and honest people.
Liberals argue that you must treat a
repeater just like an honest citizen.
Liberals argue that you must treat a person
with a clean record who carries a weapon just like you would treat
any professional thug.
Liberals are ALWAYS wrong.
And when it counts, respectable conservatives
are ALWAYS silent.
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