Soft-on-crime politicians, prosecutors and judges claim they’re “helping” the community by not locking up violent offenders. In reality, they’re victimizing the community by returning feral monsters back onto the streets to they can do horrific things to still more innocent people. One D.C. judge named Lloyd Nolan, Jr. falls squarely in that category, releasing a … Read more
Skyrocketing crime in major cities was a tragic consequence of the confluence of several factors. There was the coronavirus pandemic, prolonged lockdowns, defund the police riots and the rise in soft-on-crime city prosecutors that refused – and still do – to hold criminals accountable. Just one month ago, The Washington Post editorial board decried a … Read more
On March 18, 2008, the Second Amendment hung in the judicial balance. That morning, the U.S. Supreme Court would hear oral arguments in District of Columbia v. Heller. The question was stark: is the Second Amendment “right to keep and bear Arms” an ordinary individual right? Or would the Court hold that the Second Amendment … Read more
An editorial in The Washington Post claims that the only thing that kept January’s Capitol protests from erupting into horrific, terrorist-driven bloody gunfire is Washington, D.C.’s famously stringent gun control laws: On Jan. 6, that same threat descended on the Capitol. Domestic terrorists attacked the seat of American democracy, intending to violently subvert the will … Read more
So-called gun violence has spiked in recent weeks since the George Floyd death. Many of America’s big cities, virtually all run by Democrats, have seen the worst of this violence as gang members shoot at one another with relative impunity. Even the world’s newest nation – CHOP/CHAZistan in Seattle – has seen people maimed and … Read more
By Jeff Hulbert Once upon a time in Virginia, a little emperor named Michael Bloomberg threw a gun control party, but gun rights advocates crashed it…bigly. And what a party it was. Unfortunately, we neglected to RSVP. Spoiler Alert: this story has a happy ending with Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign bus veering off into a … Read more
Washington, D.C. has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation and a serious crime problem. Much of that is likely due to the District’s decidedly lenient treatment of violent felons. Now, after a week spent dealing with eight dead bodies, D.C.’s top cop thinks maybe keeping offenders in prison might be a … Read more
There are reports of as many as six people shot in an incident tonight in the Columbia Heights neighborhood in Northwest Washington, DC, an upscale area of the capitol. The Columbia Heights neighborhood is just north of the White House and media are reporting a huge police response. Seeing multiple reports of a shooting … Read more
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