We won’t have exact numbers until next year, but Vermont had a significant number of homicides in 2023, many of them gun-related. Unless there is a late December holiday shoot-out, however, there will be fewer gun deaths in 2023 than in 2022. But Vermont didn’t get ‘safer.’
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Crime Rise in Drug-Legal Oregon Forewarns Vermonters After Recent Hard Drug Legalization Attempts
Rising overdoses and homelessness in Oregon, where hard drugs have been legalized, may be a red flag to Vermont lawmakers considering repealing legal penalties for the personal use of opioids.
More Murder and Mayhem in Vermont
Burlington has once again found itself the victim of its own politics as progressive rules claim another two lives in the city of Burlington. Police report that two young men were shot and killed, one dead at the scene and the other after being transported to a local hospital.
The Blight of Democrat Rule Continues to Take It’s Toll on Burlington, Vermont
If Vermont is the poster child for Democrat decline, Burlington is the picture at its center. It is by far Vermont’s largest municipality and, again -and perhaps then some – its greatest cistern of liberal policy, making its decline, while sad, easy to predict.
Night Cap: Is Vermont Becoming The Land of Suspicious Deaths?
Troublesome Creek has blue-skinned people. Kentucky has Blue Grass. There are Blue mountains in Oregon, but no one is turning blue faster than Vermont. In a few short years, the political Left has taken the state on a ride to hell.
Something About Chickens Coming Home … Soros Funded DA Carjacked at Gun Point
Jason Williams was elected District Attorney of Loisisana in 2020 with 220,000 little “helpers” from George Soros, and Williams knows who owns him. “Williams declined to prosecute 65% of all criminal cases in New Orleans in 2021.”
He May Have Brought This Upon Himself but Did He Lead Others To Believe as He Did?
I’m sorry to hear that Josh Kruger died, but when he chose to ignore reality, and that reality then bit his backside (and bit it hard), a comment on the relationship between these two things is perfectly allowable.
If You Want To Be Anti-Crime, You Have To Be Anti-Democrat
In the first 260 days of 2023, the Oakland Police received 10,547 stolen vehicle reports. That’s 40.56 reports every day (Jan 1-Sep 17). If that trend continues, assuming it does not trend up, that would be 14,806 motor vehicle thefts in one year. Go Democrats!
The Left’s Culture of Crime Continues to “Target” Retailers
Over the summer, Target made a show of pulling back its controversial Transgender collection. They claimed it was to protect worker and customer safety. That was a cover story to hide a marketing stumble, but Target still has safety concerns, forcing it to close nine stores.
Is the Solution to Ban ‘Migrants’ or Public Transit?
France is very different from here. But in some ways, we should expect things to be the same. Take crime, for example. A new report focused on crimes that occur on public transportation delivered some alarming and unpleasant truths.
You’ll Need to Do More Than Just Say “I’m a Republican”
Black Democrat Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced he was switching to the Republican Party. It is a bold move in a city like Dallas, and if nothing else, the Democrat party is pissed, so at least one good thing came out of it.
How About a New Tax to Pay for All These New Illegals Alienating Urban City Dwellers
New York City is full of Demcorats. Millions of them. The city is also swelling from the influx of illegal border crossers doing business as ‘migrants,’ their word, not mine. The cost of that preferred policy has come home to roost with the progressive chickens, and the stress fractures are evident everywhere.
Hello, 911….Please Hold
Most Democrats, except for the Radical Squad members, have worked very hard to distance themselves from the Defund the Police movement that started back in 2017. In those early days, it was fashionable to call for not only defunding the Police but dismantling the Police forces in America.
Democrats Support Crime in Their Cities and Whine for “Help” from the Rest of Us
After waves of racially charged protests and riots (2020), Democrats across the country issued calls to “defund the police.” They had political positions in many cities, allowing them control of budgets.
The State Protects Itself While Crime against Ordinary People Surges
In all the media and regime frenzy over the Janaury 6 riots and the Pentagon Leaker in recent months, it is interesting to examine the contrast between how the regime treats “crimes” against its own interests and real crime committed against ordinary private citizens. Witness, for example, how the Biden administration and corporate media have treated the January … Read more
Ninth Circuit: Bladed Weapons are Protected by the Second Amendment
The People’s Republic of Hawaii is a beautiful place populated primarily by progressives. An odd place for people obsessed with sea level rise. They are big on taxing (HI has the second highest total tax burden in the US) and banning things which can get taxing as well.
Boston Can’t Seem to Get a Handle on Violent Crime
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.
NRA Uses Vermont as Example of How More Gun Laws Lead to More Crime and Violence
We’ve been documenting Vermont’s decline for years, but not the National Rifle Association is getting in on the gig. They’ve got an article titled “Is Gun Control Making Vermont Less Safe?”
The Dilemma Over Biden’s High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Fifty years ago, embroiled in the Watergate scandal, President Nixon famously announced: “I’m not a crook.” Shortly after that, he resigned his presidency, rather than face impeachment.
Second Amendment Happy Ending – He Refused To Be Victim. One Of Them Paid The Price
I do love these kinds of stories when those that decide they are entitled to other peoples’ stuff end up learning a lesson. The hard way. Emphasis mine, reformatted: An armed citizen targeted by carjackers at a Dallas gas station on Wednesday was able to draw his gun and defend himself, killing one of his … Read more