How will the left spin the news about the increase in New Hampshire homicides in 2011? The Union Leader reports the number at 23, an increases of five over 2010.
Will the Democrats try to make a case for gun control based on the report?
Will the New Hampshire Police chiefs, many of whom work so hard to try and infringe second amended rights, spin the generic details to aid their cause? (When you make people wait for a police officer to show up to defend them from criminals who have already committed their crimes, you will always need more manpower to canvass more crime scenes. Doesn’t a chief with more employees get a higher salary? )
Spin from the Chiefs would be a curious move given that we had five more homicides in 2011 and (coincidentally) had five homicides as a result of the “legitimate use of deadly force” by New Hampshire police officers. The UL article reports seven such cases of deadly force in 2011, an unusually high number, five ending in death.
No, I am not suggesting the police erred in any way or that force was not necessary to save the lives of others, including the officers involved. I’m just pointing out the curious coincidences in advance of any remarks by our liberal friends, or any Law enforcement desk jockeys who may want to create curious coincidences that result in anti-gun narratives, based on this kind of reporting.
That does not mean some Democrat wont try to build a narrative on those lines anyway.
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