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July 12, 2006
Crime Emergency!
The old joke about Washington, D.C. was that if people were serious about removing the violent connotations, etc. from the Washington Bullets' name, they ought to drop the "Washington" and call the team simply, the "Bullets." Yuck, yuck. Anyway, now that D.C. finds itself knee-deep in violent crime, they can't very well blame the Wizards (poxes are at an all-time low), and one gets the sense pols will be fretting about gun violence, etc. and push toward the Michael Bloomberg model for crime-reduction: harassing legal gun owners and disarming tomorrow's crime victims with yet more layers of gun control. It won't work, of course, but they can say they tried. Ben Shapiro exposes the folly.
Posted by bill at July 12, 2006 01:39 PM
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Where is Marion Barry when you need him. He would just blow the punks away. Or would he just do the blow and move on? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Barry
Posted by: mike ferg ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.citizen-journal.net/nav-commenters.gif)
at July 12, 2006 11:18 PM
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