“Despite New York’s reputation as the safest big city in America, some residents are far more at risk of meeting a violent end than others,” Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun agit-propmeisters proclaim in their email blast (posted below). “An investigation by the Daily News underscores that young black and Latino men die most often by gun.” Yes, well . . .
that Daily News investigation simply points out that some neighborhoods have more violent crime — and thus more firearms-related homicides — than others. Despite the incendiary headline, it does not highlight the race of the victims.
The Trace’s editor, however, focused on the fact that all of the victims in the article were black or latino, and immediately jumped-up on one of the antis’ favorite hobby horses: the lack of gun control is racist!
Which is, it must be said, the exact opposite of the truth. American gun control laws were born from racism. And remain racist.
The Trace fails to trace that connection. Instead, they sugar-coat the fact that it’s gang banging that’s causing all but a fraction of the firearms-related homicides in these high-crime neighborhoods.
Among the dead were young men caught up in cycles of neighborhood violence, like Lewis Encarnacion of East Harlem. As disputes between residents of different housing projects in his neighborhood mounted this past September, Encarnacion told a friend he feared for his life, and that he urgently wanted to tell his mother he loved her. He was shot and killed later that day.
Disputes between residents of different housing projects? Disputes? Is that what you call turf wars between young men thugs fighting to control the drug trade and other illegal activities?
It is if you promote gun control.
Well, congrats, your my first ever patron pledge.
I’ll chip in, because frankly, I really like this site and the content that is produced. Keep it up.
Comes down to IQ and culture.
That is why African countries are still crapholes even after the end of the colonial era. There is even a documentary on YouTube from 2011 that documents China investing lots of money in Africa. The Chinese man doesn’t play the PC card like an effeminate, white liberal would. He tells the black interpreter straight up that you are behind because it is your fault. No responsibility for your actions. Don’t blame the Europeans, at this point you only have yourself to blame. The Chinese man is brutally honest and I agree with him.
Same can apply to the Central and northern South American countries as well. Lower IQ, lazy people who instead of fixing their own countries they run to the U.S. and expect a handout from us as well as for us to bend over backwards to accommodate them at our expense to our economic security and freedoms. You want respect? Fix your own country, immigrate here legally like everyone else does, and assimilate. How would you like it if “Gringo’s” decided to do the same to you to your country if the roles were reversed?
awesome racism, bro.
That’s a rotten stash of weapons right there. Disrupt organized crime….. hehe right…..
Just a quick question for you, Mr. Farago. Do you ever get a response from the weasels that write this garbage? Do they ever respond to articles, such as this one?
Keep calm and rape on.
Meanwhile, in AZ: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2018/01/04/atf-stolen-military-explosives-found-pine-buried-20-years/1005432001/
WOW! Whoever buried that stuff is not real happy right now.
I’m definitely going to check out your Patreon, Jeremy. I don’t want to sound like a dick to the other guys, but you’re the only writer here whose reviews are consistently high-quality enough that I’d be willing to give you money for them. Best review writer on TTAG.
Speaking of TTAG’s “solid traffic numbers”, why’d you guys stop publishing those quarterly traffic stats articles? Those were very interesting, providing some insight into what the other users of the site were interested in.
Scorpion Evo, PPQ M2, P99cAS and Grock 19: Federal HST 147 grain +P
Glock 42: Fiocchi 90 grain XTP
Rhino 50 DS: .357 Mag recommendations requested
“It’ll be a different world from today, where I’m TTAG’ing during the limited time I’m not working 50 hours a week and traveling 35% of the time for my “real job” in the tech industry.”
Jeebus. A whole 50 hours a week, and 35% travel? Can’t wait ’til your actual bosses learn of your “dedication” to what they’re paying you for……
For my Springfield XD40, I use DoubleTap 40 S&W 180 GR XTP Hollow Points.
For my Beretta Nano and Sig SP2022, I use Hornady American Gunner 9mm 124 GR +P XTP Hollow Points.
What a crock of gator. How is a cop supposed to tell the bad guys, from the good guys? Pop smoke then call the color? Everyone s got a gun . Support your Local Law Enforcement
HiPoint pistols are full of design flaws, worked on one yesterday, why is their firing pin bushing a spring?: I told the owner I do not recommend this pistol for anything but plinking. Cheap is what it is.
Federal HST in 9 & 40. Speer 200+P in 45. Simply the best available anywhere.
22 is probably the rim fire mentioned. Do you really need one on a two two? Foam ear plugs are cheap.
Daisy copper plated bb’s,
Cereal numbers, I know there’s a thousand toothpicks in the box, but I have never counted the flakes in the Cornflake box.
I live near the Appalachian Trail deep in the mountains of Virginia. I never remember a robbery and only a couple of cases of murder in many years. I would have a gun because of my fear of bears, coyotes, wild dogs and snakes. The hikers wander into town and never cause any trouble and the locals are nice to them. It may be different in higher crime areas where the trail goes.
Peter King might know who stashed them.
I figured out a long time ago that if someone busts down my door at 3:00am the most likely scenario is it’s a SWAT raid with either the wrong address or bad information, rather than a criminal. If it were criminals I’d probably have them outgunned, certainly caught by surprise (no burglar would enter your home if he expected to be confronted by an armed resident). But if it’s a SWAT team I’ll be outnumbered and outgunned by a team wearing body armor that will stop even my hot .357 loads. And even if I somehow win that gunfight the best case scenario is I’m going to spend the next two years in prison before my acquittal. So considering that, I’m much more afraid of the cops than the robbers.
Who’s hiding b1t<h?
I am an officer and just want to weigh in.
Should you trust them? No more than you would trust any other stranger. There are 800k law enforcement peeps in the U.S. Out of 800k individuals you are bound to have more than a handful of bad apples, but combined with the siren song of authoritah there are a lot of officers out there who just don’t need to be in that position.
That being said, the way our nation handles Police, which is divided up at the local level, it’s kind of a mixed bag as to the culture within each department. Some departments, like mine, have fairly vicious internal affairs departments that thoroughly investigate accusations of misconduct and apply appropriate penalties. Our department has a policy of “if you lie, you are instantly fired,” so we don’t have a “blue line of silence” culture in my department. A- I don’t want to work with jackasses, B- the citizens should not be subjected to such jackassery, and C- I’m not losing my job because some other idiot couldn’t do the right thing.
On the other end, there are departments where there is a problem with silence and lackadaisical IA. Those departments need to be purged.
That being said, people love to bitch about the police but no one ever seems to offer any practical solutions to get more qualified applicants. To be honest, a lot of otherwise qualified people don’t want to work for police departments anymore because altruism doesn’t pay the bills. While Police can make bank in union states (Police unions should not exist, by the way) in most states it’s a modest living with perpetually diminishing benefits. If you want to get consistent, qualified officer hires with life experience you’re going to have to pay for it. It’s just the reality of today’s world. The problem is with most people rabbling about their taxes paying others’ salaries, people don’t want to budge on that.
That’s funny. Click on the Hudson 9 link in the article and you are directed to a Chippa 22 single action revolver for 180. You could have at least linked to the one that comes with the additional cylinder to shoot 22 mag for $30 more
18yr as Infantry officer US Army.
Respectfully you’re full of crap. Women are largely useless pawns in military service. It does not matter for what nation. I’m sure someone will certainly throw up all the Stalinist propaganda about female, snipers/fighter pilots. BS. Next always comes a citation of the chicks in the Israeli army as an example of a very skilled Western force.
In small units the presence of women (and social experiment degenerates) are destructive to small unit cohesion and efficiency. COMBAT units. All else is tooth not nail and thus useless BS. You can force feed the gals into combat support roles but the typical gal does not IMPROVE unit operations compared to the typical guy. What means one for one degrades unit performance. The gal can not physically perform typical battlefield or support roles. Can carry the ruck or change the 16.00x 20 truck tire. Young gal, even those not screwing or whoring their way thru the unit, at a minimum distract the young man from his duty. That gets other soldiers DEAD.
Women in the Israeli army are useless window dressing. It is all propaganda. More kibbutznic (marxist) wing of Israeli society. Wasted energy and effort by the IDF.
When I was much younger and dumber, I believed in “every young man” should serve. Experience has taught me that is idiotic pap. Today, even more than 30 years ago most young “men” do not have the backbone or physical capability needed. The Army/USMC have a very difficult time finding 18yr old males that are not butterballs (or snowflakes).
Only earn the franchise my serving? I’m with you. BUT NO ONE has the “right” to serve. I don’t give a damn what you want. Are you able? Anything/anyone that does not IMPROVE the capability REDUCES the capability and that gets other young men DEAD. Women, queers, tranny, __________. As I now have a son serving who could well bear the impact of this dumbing down, it is personal. That DOD is STILL marching to Obumer social experimentation is a crime. Women in the Infantry, Combat Engineer, etc. Pathetic, laughable, criminal irresponsibility and dereliction of duty by the Obumer appointed General officers.
What moron recruits 4’8″ 110lb little girls into the freaking US ARMY for ANY role?
I hate to be the guy reviving a post nearly 6 years old, but there’s a comment from a year ago and this was the first search engine result, presumably due to Foghorn’s legendary status. I suppose it’s worth pitching in my slightly different perspective on the subject. With supersonic rounds, I’ll have to agree that the velocity increase is negligible. Case closed.
Considering that I just received my first suppressor in the dead of winter, near some Great Lake effect temperatures to boot, my thoughts on the subject have strayed down a different path. I’d like to point out that the speed of sound decreases as temperature decreases. I’m sure there are other sites with different algorithms, but I’m not smart enough to make my own or say which is closest to perfect. So here’s one: https://www.weather.gov/epz/wxcalc_speedofsound
I’ve been seeing some sub zero temperatures lately, so to just pick a temp for the sake of argument, I chose 0 degrees Fahrenheit. This gives us an alleged 1,050.74 fps speed of sound. Again, based on my personal preferences, I typically shoot Hornady factory loaded ammunition. Their two 300. BLK subsonic offerings at the moment advertise muzzle velocities of 1,020 and 1,050 fps from a 16″ test barrel, presumably without a suppressor, but I’m really not certain. So without a suppressor in the equation, it seems we’re already dancing on the line here.
By all means, play with this calculator and measure your own velocities as well as decibel levels. I don’t have the time, money or warm enough gloves to do it all myself. I’d only like to point out the tight margin of error around the sound barrier you might find yourself. It sure would be nice to see some more data in cold temperatures. Please advise if you have some. If there is indeed an issue here, maybe the solution is an even slower round? Or just move South? Yeah, I’ll just move further South.
☞ armed neo-Nazi scum ☜
uh-oh!
“Godwin’s Law” !
or….maybe its just Farago’s “ethnicity” coming-to-the-fore, eh?!?
shoot a right-wing fascist
That will occur AFTER you find a unicorn and a sasquatch to unload upon. Leftist/progtard fascists are everywhere. Please do shoot some.
I thought I was inappropriately swayed from antipathy toward hate.
Nope.
Not inappropriate.
They’re [???] just another unequal person I don’t want to equate myself with.
Maybe you’re holding it wrong.
https://youtu.be/xqSLZ1jqhFQ
What are the people at Meopta smoking? A combo of this and their stupid red dot would run you $1,999.98. For a red dot sight and magnifier costing as much as some of the Gucciest of Gucci ARs without being battle proven is straight up idiocy.
I’m so glad I left California for Kentucky. Home of the Knob Creek Machine Gun shoot. Number five out of fifty states for best gun liberty.
If it isn’t tax money going to it; I’m all for it. It may provide perverse incentives (ie the incentive to start a life of crime in order to get paid not to have a life of crime), but so long as it isn’t tax money funding it, people can do what they want with their money.
However, I would be surprised if it actually makes any significant positive difference.
Liberal stupidity at its finest. This type of program has been tried before and does not work. Why wouldnt we pay all felons not to commit crimes? We could reduce law enforcement costs, close jails and prisons and use those savings to pay for it all. Because it doesnt work thats why.
We should build camps in the desert like we did in WW2 and house these criminals away from society. If you learn a skill you get one chance to stay out. Screw up and its back for life. A bologna sandwich 2x a day for food. Pink clothes, done. Medical care provided by incarcerated doctors and nurses, done.