Last September, we reported on a class action lawsuit filed by a handful of Democrat-run warzones (doing business as cities) that blamed rising car thefts on automakers whose vehicles are easier to steal. Isn’t that like saying it’s okay to punch someone because they look like they won’t punch back?
Violent thug: Did you see the look on that guy’s face? He was begging to get beat up.
Democrat DA: You’re right. Let’s sue his parents.
Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, and New York sued Kia/Hyundai for making cars people don’t want to steal but can’t help themselves. It’s just so darn easy, like blaming someone else for a problem created by decades of democratic rule and deliberate policy choices (like not prosecuting theft). However, prosecutors aren’t going to get jackpot justice from former Kia and Hyundai owners, so the Democrats are blaming the car maker.
Minnesota AG Keith Ellison wants in on this action.
“But we have to go upstream, and we got to make sure that the automobiles are not so easy to steal that they are a tempting, attractive nuisance for young people. Right now we are investigating two major automakers because their cars are dramatically too easy to steal for young people.”
What happens when you take that statement and replace “automobiles” with retail goods?
“But we have to go upstream, and we got to make sure that the retail goods are not so easy to steal that they are a tempting, attractive nuisance for young people. Right now we are investigating retailers because their inventory are dramatically too easy to steal for young people.”
Or personal property.
“But we have to go upstream, and we got to make sure that the personal property is not so easy to steal that they are a tempting, attractive nuisance for young people. Right now we are investigating homeowners because their belongings are dramatically too easy to steal for young people.”
Or, what the heck, election!
“But we have to go upstream, and we got to make sure that elections are not so easy to steal that they are a tempting, attractive nuisance for young people. Right now we are investigating local precincts because their votes are dramatically too easy to steal for young people.”
You can plug almost anything in there, and what you end up with is a so-called criminal justice system whose purpose is not to protect people from loss of property (or life). It is to distract victims while it profits from their misery.
Neither Ellison, his state, nor any of the municipal crime lords doing business as AGs or prosecutors will spend a dime of any settlement on improving public safety because they aren’t in that business.
Why do you think they want you disarmed? Yes, it is impossible to advance to actual tyranny in a land with armed citizens, but it is also true that if citizens were allowed to gun down criminals, it might have a deleterious impact on achieving that tyranny. Deliberate crime creates chaos, and the goal is to so unsettle the middle class that they demand the government take more freedoms for the promise of safety they never intend to deliver.
And that lawlessness and mayhem is always someone else’s fault, and that is a lesson that victims of Democrat rule can’t seem to learn. They have controlled everything for decades but are responsible for nothing.
You’d never tolerate that BS from a friend or family member, so why do politicians and bureaucrats get a pass?