Posted: 13 Nov 2014 08:15 PM PST
After another bloody
weekend in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel branded the shootings unacceptable and
the city’s top cop demanded more gun control laws. Chicago’s murder rate has
actually dropped since concealed carry became legal. Emanuel’s lawsuits over
his illegal gun control laws have left the already struggling city deep in
the hole and forced to cover the NRA’s million dollars in legal bills.
Concealed
carry paid off over that bloody weekend when a vet carrying a gun returned
fire stopping a massacre before it happened. The original shooter ended up in
the hospital, but nobody ended up in the morgue, which kept the death toll for
the weekend down to fourteen.
Fourteen isn’t pretty, but it’s better than twenty or thirty.
Chicago’s murder rate in 1992 was double what it is today. The death rate was
at 33.7 out of 100,000 which meant that you had a pretty good chance of being
shot in Chicago. Today it’s down to 15 out of 100,000, which is small comfort
to those ending up in the morgue, but it gives everyone else much better odds
of surviving to see what ingenious ways the next corrupt mayoral
administration will use to rip off the city.
Back in 1992, the cops also blamed guns for the murder rate. But it wasn’t
the guns that were killing people. It was the gangs. Now the murder rate is
down, but the number of shootings is up. To Chicago’s police boss, that’s a
problem, as if it makes a difference to the deceased whether he’s shot,
stabbed or dropped in the water wearing cement overshoes. But fighting guns
is easier than fighting crime.
The gun obsession is one of the few things that cops and leftists have in
common. It’s the last politically acceptable form of prohibitionism in a
society that enthusiastically legalizes drugs, even if possessing crack
cocaine is statistically much more likely to lead you to kill a man, than
possessing a gun will.
Every shooting spree bypasses the obvious problem with calls for more gun
laws and something for the youth to do over the weekend that doesn’t involve
shooting up the local housing project. This weekend, Rahm Emanuel took on the
problem of funding more teen centers while Chicago’s top cop blustered about
more gun laws. And then having successfully talked around the issue, they all
went home.
The left loves root causes more than it loves red shirts and black bandanas,
a fashion choice that it shares with some of the gangs responsible for most
of the shootings.
America’s gun violence problem is urban. It’s localized in Democratic
enclaves. And it overlaps neatly with its corrupt political machines. It has
nothing to do with the NRA and a great deal to do with the party of social
engineering, the welfare state and gun bans.
And illegal immigration.
Homicide rates overlap with unemployment rates, especially when accounting
for the demographic populations of young minority men who are statistically
more likely to kill or be killed.
92% of black male teens in Chicago don’t have a job. In Detroit, 50% of black
men are unemployed. It’s not that there aren’t any jobs, but the entry level
jobs have been mostly going to immigrants.
The Center for Immigration Studies found that under Obama
two-thirds of jobs went to immigrants, both legal and illegal. Throw in a
massive illegal alien amnesty and the rush of illegal aliens into the country
will turn the employment figures of every city into Detroit and Chicago.
The black male unemployment rate in New York was at 33%. And the murder rate
in New York is significantly lower than in Detroit or Chicago. But how long
will that last if the unemployment rate in New York rises above 50%? Before
long the marginal gangs will swell to monstrous sizes controlling entire
neighborhoods. Anyone who can will flee and the city will once again become
what it was.
The same process will take place in most major American cities.
The United States of America does not have a shortage of workers. It has a
shortage of jobs. The irresponsible immigration policy has created a surplus
of workers. Illegal alien amnesty will make that surplus much worse. Legalize
twelve million illegal aliens and another twelve million will come. Those who
can’t find jobs, will find gangs. Those who lose jobs to them will also find
gangs.
The gangs will fight each other for control of entire neighborhoods and the
crime wave will set America back decades.
After the 1986 amnesty, the number of murders, which had begun to fall in the
early eighties, rose again. They did not return to a pre-amnesty level until
1997. Rapes have only recently returned to a pre-amnesty level. Now the
progress we’ve made is about to be undone all over again.
In 1986, murder rates suddenly rose mysteriously in major cities. The New
York Times described the crime rates as being the highest since the 1970s.
In Chicago, murders increased by 20%. In New York they increased by 20%. The
cities rushed to crack down on guns while insisting that they were mystified
by the drastic increase.
The guns weren’t the problem. The illegal alien amnesty which had created a
magnet was. Illegal aliens with fake documents headed in hoping to take
advantage of amnesty. Later newly legalized immigrants invited their family
members to join them. Even before the amnesty took effect, crime rates
spiked.
Amnesty
advocates claim that immigrants aren’t taking jobs from Americans because
they are more likely to be employed at the lower and higher ends of the
marketplace. And that’s half true. What it really means is that they displace
trained technical workers at the high end of the marketplace. That leads to a
further erosion of the native middle class, but it doesn’t directly lead to
gang violence.
At the lower end of the marketplace, they not only displace workers, but they
displace the workers that might have been. Teenagers who would have started
working regular jobs instead roam around aimlessly. The lost entry level jobs
are substituted with crime. Neighborhoods fall apart and gang violence
increases as gang members compete for turf in the new drug marketplace. And
the rest is crime statistics and children taken to morgues in cities that can
barely keep the lights on.
If we want to repeat the same cycle again, Super-Amnesty, an amnesty several
times bigger than the one in 1986, will make it happen. Entire cities will
fall into gang violence. Their economies will collapse and that will have a
ripple effect on their suburbs and on entire states.
America will be a more dangerous and poorer place. And the politicians will
talk some more about banning guns and about building more teen centers for
the youth to hang out in between shootings.
Daniel Greenfield is a New York City based writer and blogger
and a Shillman Journalism Fellow of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
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