Some Anecdotal Crime Evidence

By Daniel Miessler on July 7th, 2008: Tagged as America | Crime

The admin for our team came in today (her name is Denise) with bad news from the weekend. One of her kids had his car stolen, and upon returning to his house he found the door wide open. A 52″ TV, as well as two laptops and a number of other valuables were stolen. This was in a nearby state.

She sits 4 feet from me.

So then one of my team members comes in and says he had a bad weekend as well. His two sons were held up at gun point on the south side of the city I live in. They didn’t just take their belongings; they also beat them up pretty good.

He sits 4 feet from me, behind me.

My other teammate, Chris, has had two cars stolen in our town in two years.

Then there was the story of the 71-year-old man who was in a Subway in Miami over the weekend. Two guys guys came in with guns and held the place up, and then tried taking the old man into the bathroom in the back.

He had a legal firearm, concealed, which he then drew and used. He shot one in the head and one in the chest. The one shot in the head died shortly afterwards, and the second one ran away and was captured by police after he hid in a bush. I’m just glad that old man had his pistol with him.

No charges were filed.

The mother of the man that was killed is upset because the old man fired on her son. She should be ashamed of herself.

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I expect the crime numbers for 2008, country wide, to be alarming. More to follow.

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Jonathan 6 months ago 1 point
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"I expect the crime numbers for 2008, country wide, to be alarming. More to follow."

Especially if Obama gets elected. People think just because he said after the Heller decision that he supported the 2nd amendment that Obama is just as good as McCain on the 2nd amendment issue. That's not the case however. Obama supported the DC Gun ban, he supports the Chicago gun ban, and continues to steer money to some of the most anti-gun groups that exist.

Criminals will ALWAYS have guns. Surprising to some, criminals don't care about laws or background checks, so 99% of the time, gun control legislation only hurts the law abiding citizens.

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Daniel Miessler 6 months ago 1 point
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Obama will lower crime because he'll reduce the pressures that are causing it -- at least in the short term.

His long-term policies are not great, in my opinion, but at least he understands what's hurting our economy and our security and our reputation. And all of these things are related.

Obama's approach to fixing these things is good, but his overall policies are not ideal. But McCain will exacerbate the problems; he's seriously dangerous.

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Jonathan 6 months ago 1 point
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Can you explain what you mean when you say Obama will reduce the pressures that are causing crime?

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Daniel Miessler 6 months ago 1 point
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Improving our reputation via non-interventionist foreign policy and diplomacy reduces our number of enemies, which reduces our need to fight wars.

Then we can actually start making things again, and selling them, and having people owe us money again.

Education. R&D. Sound fiscal policy.

All these things will improve our economy, add jobs, and help lower crime.

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