A majority of Republicans (69%) expect crime to rise under incoming President Joe Biden, according to a new Rasmussen Reports survey released this week. The revelation will likely add new momentum to gun and ammunition sales, which skyrocketed during 2020, leaving shelves bare at gun shops and sporting goods stores. Last year saw homicides spike […]
Seattle’s ‘Summer of Love’ Mayor Durkan Won’t Run Again
She presided over a far-left city as anarchists took over the streets, trashing and looting private businesses, setting police vehicles on fire, forcing police to abandon their East Precinct headquarters, while predicting a “summer of love.” Now liberal Democrat Jenny Durkan has announced she won’t run for re-election, leaving the door open for an even […]
More Murders in Chicago than in Most States Last Year
Chicago has hit a milestone, racking up more homicides so far in 2020 than all but two states did during the entire 12 months of 2019, according to the FBI Uniform Crime Report for last year. Only California (1,679) and Texas (1,379) reported more murders in all of 2019 than Chicago has logged over the […]
Metro Mayhem: Murders Soar in Chicago, Los Angeles = More Gun Law Failure
Monday morning it appeared the City of Chicago was close to hitting—if it hadn’t already—700 homicides for the year, with five weeks remaining in 2020, according to data from the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Windy City is not alone in the rise of metropolitan mayhem. Two thousand miles west, the City of Los Angeles hit […]
Gun Tax…Police Quitting…Murder Spike; Yep, That’s Seattle!
The number of homicides so far this year in Seattle, Washington is alarmingly up from last year, having already surpassed the 2019 murder total “with interest” as one observer sarcastically noted, raising questions about how this happens. After all, the city hastily adopted a special “violence tax” on guns and ammunition five years ago that […]
Coverage of Apparent Seattle Murder-Suicide Holds Key to City’s Troubles
Buried slightly below the surface of an investigation into what appears to have been a murder-suicide involving one of Seattle’s most well-known repeat offenders is quite possibly the key to the city’s worsening reputation as place you wouldn’t want to live, much less visit. It took the death of self-confessed meth addict Travis Berge—a man […]
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