◼ NEW: Oakland violent crimes No. 3 in country - Katy Grimes/Cal Watchdog
A tiny blurb tucked away on page A4 of the Sunday Sacramento Bee today, told about four bloody murders in Oakland on Friday didn’t do the tragic story justice, nor give the whole picture.
Oakland, CA, the city where now-California Governor Jerry Brown was Mayor for eight years, 1999-2007, is rated the third highest violent crime city in the country. Current Mayor Jean Quan has been uncharacteristically quiet about the increasing violence in the Northern California city, particularly after her prominent role in ginning up the Occupy Oakland protests in 2011.
“A bloody six-hour stretch of shootings Friday left four dead in what oplice say is the deadly results of ongoing battles between ‘several identified groups.’ The surge in violence led an elected official to call on the city to declare a state of emergency,” the AP reported.
The Oakland police report a “sharp spike” in violent crime, with 131 homicides in 2012 — “the most since 2006 when there were 148,” the AP reported. In only 12 days of the new year, there have already been six murders in Oakland....
“For restrictive gun laws to gain the public support needed for passage, the public has to be misled, their emotions manipulated, and their fears exploited,” Kurt Hofmann wrote in a 2009 Examiner op ed. ”The single greatest obstacle to passage of such laws is an informed public. The forcible citizen disarmament lobby is well aware of this, of course, and tries to dominate the discussion with its own version of the ‘truth.’”
In one paragraph Hoffman summed up what the gun-control zealots are trying to do.
The proof is that the story of Oakland’s most recent murder-spree, which should have been statewide news, was buried in the Sunday Sacramento newspaper. It should have been on the front page of every California newspaper, and Sunday opinion columns so that citizens could participate in the discussion.
Instead, Feinstein and gun ban lobby, will try to shove her legislation through the House and Senate as fast as possible. And now, Vice President Joe Biden even threateningly intimated that President Barack Obama will sign an Executive Order to ban many guns.
◼ Gun-Controlled Chicago Sees More American Deaths Than Afghanistan War Zone - Say Anything
Via Gateway Pundit, there were 405 coalition casualties in Afghanistan in 2012, and 310 of them were Americans (72% of US war casualties in Afghanistan have come under President Obama).
In Chicago, which claims some of the strictest gun control policies in America, there were 532 homicides in 2012.
