If skin color or ethnic background matters to you, you are a racist, but since we’re talking about Boston’s so-called racist history, we will have to attach some labels. It was, after all, Democrats who made a point of putting people of color in charge.
And that’s supposed to matter to someone, but no one seems to think it is change they can believe in, so Boston Mayor Wu (Asian) and Police Commission Michael Cox (Black) have a problem, and its name is gun violence. Or is it Climate Change?
After Boston’s most violent night of the summer – in the middle of an important NAACP national convention – city officials and law enforcement are in desperate need of a new strategy to deal with the surge in shootings.
Mayor Michelle Wu, hours after the spate of shootings and stabbings that had police rushing from scene to scene in Dorchester and Roxbury, focused instead on her executive order banning fossil fuels in new city buildings.
“Week after week, we see the signs of extreme heat, storms and flooding that remind us of a closing window to take climate action,” she said.
It would be fair to ask if Mayor Wu thinks heat is a factor in the rise in violence, and the answer would be yes. Heat makes people crazy and crazy people more so. But in the context of her remarks, won’t your Party’s energy future exacerbate that problem? When you make energy a luxury and regulate air conditioners and electricity into the realm of unaffordability (for people or even moderate income), aren’t you just asking for more violence?
And credit where it’s due: “Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden, meanwhile, chose to focus on changing the attitudes around illegal guns after the shootings.” He said illegal guns, not just guns or gun violence. I know that’s what he means, but high praise for the choice of words, not that it much matters. If the issue is violence and Wu is working hard to make Boston less comfortable, disarming the cradle of liberty won’t stop the problem, just ask London.
Stabbing bords and blokes is a full-time hobby’ London keeps setting records for violence against everyone with nary a gun in sight. It’s so bad they are banning knives as if no one can one a broom handle or a cricket bat.
If you take all the guns, you’ll still have illegal guns and a lot more knives, and a lot more crime and violence. There’s a lot of historical evidence to back that up.
Crooks or folks who feel there’s no other way to rise in society (probably because their compassionate, progressive government ruined the public school and trapped them in a dead-end welfare loop) will take other people’s stuff to improve their lives. Some will resist and be shot or stabbed; others will just be shot or stabbed. The gangs working over the locals in liberal-run cities consider working-class folks one of the few natural commodities left. And while robbing criminals is excellent fun, I suppose, because they won’t report it, they stole that crap from someone, and that someone isn’t always the local corner store who can’t press charges because the local liberal DA made theft a more desirable calling than a days work.
In other words, Boston’s crime and violence problem is not about the heat or guns. It is that the people keep electing progressives of any race or ethnicity. Until someone smartens up and moves on from that, the city should expect things to continue to decline because what better role model for a thief is there than an elected member of the Democrat party?
HT | Boston Herald