{"id":68972,"date":"2016-11-16T11:54:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T16:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68972"},"modified":"2016-11-16T19:29:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T00:29:48","slug":"bless-their-pointy-little-leftist-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68972","title":{"rendered":"Bless Their Pointy Little Leftist Heads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, Baltimore.\u00a0 That “glorious” East Coast city with one of the highest murder rates in the nation.<\/p>\n

Per Wikipedia, Baltimore’s murder and non-negligent homicide rate in 2014 was 33.8 per 100,000 population<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 That’s the highest on the East Coast, higher even than Newark’s.\u00a0 And it’s the 4th-highest in the US overall – trailing only St Louis, Detroit, and New Orleans.<\/p>\n

So, what has Baltimore done to try and reduce this rate?\u00a0 Glad you asked.\u00a0 The other day, they passed a law banning firearm replicas<\/em>.\u00a0 You know, like BB guns which look too much like real pistols.<\/p>\n

I’m serious<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 From the linked article:<\/p>\n

City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young said replica guns are contributing to violence on Baltimore’s streets. He said people are using the fake weapons in robberies, and children who carry them are put in harm’s way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that’s a real quote.\u00a0 Apparently the Baltimore city council president actually thinks many criminals in Baltimore are committing armed robberies with replica firearms.\u00a0 Well, either that or he’s dissembling for public consumption.<\/p>\n

But hey – it’s Baltimore.\u00a0 So it’s entirely possible he really is<\/span> that freaking clueless.<\/p>\n

OK, here’s the background info on what IMO actually caused this idiocy:\u00a0 apparently last April a Baltimore teen got into an altercation with a Baltimore cop – and got shot because he flashed his replica BB-gun.\u00a0 (The 14-year-old dumbass was lucky; he survived.)\u00a0 To prevent another such “unfortunate occurrence”, Baltimore has by city ordinance now banned the possession of such “replica firearms” by its citizens.<\/p>\n

I guess that shouldn’t be a surprise, though.\u00a0 Baltimore is indeed a part of the People’s Republic of Maryland.\u00a0 Idiocy like this seems to be endemic there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah, Baltimore.\u00a0 That “glorious” East Coast city with one of the highest murder rates in the … Bless Their Pointy Little Leftist Heads<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,220,213,177,82,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-dumbass-bullshit","category-gun-grabbing-fascists","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}