Category: Crime

The Safety Dance

Missiles hit Dubai. Influencer still claims it’s safer than US cities
Influencer Mike Babayan says he still feels safe in Dubai as missiles strike the region. [More]

Google AI…? What say you?

Many freedoms protected in the U.S. are illegal in Dubai, UAE, due to strict conservative laws and autocratic governance. Key restrictions include prohibitions on criticizing the government, public displays of affection, LGBTQ+ rights, independent media, public protests, and certain expressions of religion. Violating these can lead to fines, imprisonment, or deportation. U.S. Department of State (.gov)

Not that I’m saying AI is GIGO curated leftist opinion or anything, but it avoided something. I said “avoided” instead of “forgot,” because it knows:

Dubai has extremely strict gun laws under UAE Federal Law No. 17 of 2019, making private firearm ownership difficult and heavily regulated. Licenses are required for purchasing or possessing weapons, with illegal possession resulting in severe penalties like imprisonment and deportation. Ownership is limited to specific purposes like sport or hunting, requiring strict licensing.

Mr. Franklin…? (And yes, I’m aware of original context.)

Maybe the wrong people are “influencers.”

Still, he has a point about cities and the dangerous oppressiveness of Democrat rule.

Sins of the Father

During the trial, the jury heard how Colin Gray had bought his son an AR-style rifle for Christmas the year before the attack, even though the boy had been questioned by police just seven months earlier about online threats to commit a school shooting. [More]

The AR reference is a bit of hyperbolic hand-wringing because there’d be just as much outrage over a Fudd gun being used, but there is a point here that merits discussion– when you know something is wrong and you enable it anyway, you do share culpability in outcomes.

Denial is one thing, and it’s understandable when admitting it can be so overwhelmingly devastating, but the fact that it is is your first clue. Those of us who have had to make tough decisions in child-raising that ultimately resulted in successful adult outcomes should thank God we were never faced with having to confront a child so broken he could not be fixed.

And if one of mine had been taken from me because his father was too weak to confront reality, I’d blame him, too.

[Via bondmen]

An Incomplete Data Set

Cato Director: Immigrants Reduce Crime Rates, So You’re Less Likely to Be a Crime Victim [More]

What will happen to that crime rate when the pathway to citizenship Democrats and cheap labor Republicans/Libertarians succeed in changing the electorate to one that supports citizen disarmament?

I wonder if Bier and Cato will take the challenge that so far everyone else has run away from.

We could always ask…

[Via Michael G]

Tangentially-Related UPDATE

Watch–Democrat Tells Angel Families: Sorry for Your Loss, But Americans Are More Violent than Illegal Aliens [More]

Leftist Rep. Steve Cohen channels his inner Cato.

As Gomer would say, “Surprise, surprise, surprise!“

[Via bondmen]

Eviscerating the Blessings of Liberty

Fremont Jewelry Raid Shows How California’s ‘Reforms’ Empower Criminal Mobs [More]

While at the same time disarming the citizenry.

And Democrats vote for this.

Just wait ’til you see what they do after “gun rights groups” don’t get out the vote and Republicans blow the midterms.

[Via Michael G]

A True Leader

Jasmine Crockett’s alleged security guard killed in standoff with Dallas SWAT team: reports- The suspect barricaded himself inside a vehicle before allegedly pulling a gun on officers [More]

And a Fauxnly One to boot! The company these people keep… It’s only “commonsense”…

Watch the mutt show up in the Gun Violence Memorial after he’s ID’d.

UPDATE

Tell me he asked for it without telling me he asked for it:

Meanwhile, Across the Pond…

UK Officers Used Police Cars to Help Traffic Girls for Pakistani Rape Gang [More]

Something must be done!

I know:

[Via Michael G]

‘Non-Dangerous Felon’ Opinion Leaves More Immediate Danger Unresolved

The late Robert J. Kukla made a brilliant observation in his 1973 classic, Gun Control, equating the release of violent misfits from prison with opening the cage of a man-eating tiger and expecting a different result. [More]

Anyone who can’t be trusted with a gun can’t be trusted without a custodian.

I’m Goin’ to Kansas City, Kansas City Here I Come

Initial investigations reveal that before the shooting, multiple people were gathered inside a Kansas City home when a fight broke out between unknown individuals. The fight led to several shots being fired and two adult women, two teen boys and two teen girls being struck by gunfire. [More]

They got some crazy little women there, and I’m gonna get me one.

[Via Steve T]

Easy as ABC

Thief who swiped Oakland mayor’s $75K car was ‘squatting’ in City Hall for days [More]

Told ya it was an inside job…

A source told the Post the thief had been living inside the complex since Friday and managed to stay undetected despite the highly paid ABC Security Services being on site.

“A trusted name,” eh?

Anybody else smell a “symbiotic relationship“?

[Via Michael G]

We’re the Only Ones Falsely Accusing Enough

An 18-year-old man spent 20 hours in jail this week after his attorney says New Roads police wrongfully arrested him on felony charges for allegedly possessing a stolen gun that was not stolen. [More]

But…but…but serial numbers…

It sounds like they’ve got bigger problems than incompetence.

Fashion sense, for one…

[Via Jess]