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K.Mooneyham wrote: I always figured that gangs were a good way to bring in taxes for a liberal-progressive crook mayor. Such as, there is a gang problem in a given city and a public outcry about the violence. You, the liberal-progressive mayor and/or city council, say that you need to put more law enforcement on the streets to combat the problem, and to do that, you need more money. You float a tax increase of some sort and its pushed as enabling the hiring of more law enforcement. When you get the money, you spend a little of it on something related to law-enforcement, and dole the rest out to your cronies...the violence isn't brought down any, so lather, rinse, and repeat. The dimbulbs never seem to catch on...and law enforcement officers who have to actually deal with dangerous thugs and gang-bangers never get the help they are promised.

Yep, and you can bet, if we ever get to the point of confiscation, they won't be confiscating the guns of gang members --only those of us who were law abiding before stupid laws deliberately turned us into criminals.

jmra wrote:

K.Mooneyham wrote:

RPB wrote:and neither was 1st to call 911?

what led to the campus shooting and he replied, "Someone bumped me."

Investigators say it appears one of the suspects and one of the victims have known gang affiliations.

hmmm

Yep, there you go, GANG-RELATED. Not a CHLer, not some "crazy NRA member", but likely a gang-member...the people who perpetrate the majority of firearms-related crimes.

You would thank someone would have come up with the idea of banning gangs. Then this would not have happened because gangs would not exist.

No, because the left wants gangs to exist. Consider all the benefits: 1) they keep the poor and vulnerable cowed and in-line and under control; 2) they help maintain a visible threat that justifies increased police power; 3) their crimes can be conflated with other crime statistics and be used to justify taking weapons away from law abiding citizens who live outside their areas of operation; 4) unlike law abiding citizens who believe in our Constitutional rights and are dispersed all over the country and not always so easy to identify, gangs are highly visible, readily identifiable, and concentrated in certain areas, so if they are ever a threat to the TPTB they can be rolled up rather easily; and 5) gangs can be manipulated in various ways that help the TPTB attain their objectives.

Gangs don't threaten the TPTB. They mostly affect the lives of the poor and downtrodden who the progs don't really care about anyway, as they are just tools for aggregating power. Since they don't affect the middle class all that much they are not really a political issue that TPTB need to worry about.