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The third reason I got my CCW is one that I understood less when I applied for it than I do now; carrying a handgun alters my sense of awareness by creating a heightened sense of vigilance. Caring a gun has caused me to develop a “6th sense” to my surroundings. I remember reading somewhere that carrying a weapon is like taking a child to the mall…it really expands your awareness of your environment and makes you cautious. Using Jeff Cooper’s color alert system (white/yellow/orange/red) had become a natural consequence when I carry; I am always in code yellow; I am more observant, I look for someone displaying the signs of a predator, I am a better driver, I am more courteous, and I do not daydream my way through the day.

It should:

I have joked in this medium recently that it wasn’t until I got a CCW permit and started carrying a pistol around that I really learned how to be coward.  Translated from snarkese into English, that means that once I put the power of life and death on my hip, and covered it in some sort of fabric, and realized the others are doing the same, that’s when I realized the shit was really serious.  I avoid bad situations and scenes as much as possible, and when I can’t, I try to de-escalate tensions to the best of my ability.  Now, before I started packing, I never really looked for trouble or elevated the intensity of rows in which I was involved, but now I do none of that.

Really, it’s not some profound insight.  It’s the result of human nature, when you combine an above average IQ with a decent moral code plus the power of life and death on your person.

LOL ESL

ESL

Alvin Parks isn’t down with CCW.

 

Can’t Wait

Edwardsville

It’s like the Berlin Wall is crumbling.

If you have an Illinois FOID card or a valid CCW permit from another state, you can carry in Madison County.

Finding Out What’s In It

Springfield, Illinois

Unpacking the carry bill that sits on Quinn’s desk, we find that:

*  It has provisions wherein the ISP could object to a permit granted to people who have five or more arrests for any reason, or three or more gang-related arrests.  I think that will actually happen about as often as you find teeth on hens, because almost everyone who fits into those categories is going to have some sort of disqualifying actual criminal conviction on his or her record.  Also, black and Hispanic gang bangers don’t walk into a building full of cops to apply for carry permits.

*  There is no reciprocity with Missouri or any other state hard-wired into the legal language.  Now, that doesn’t mean that Illinois won’t eventually grant reciprocity with other states.  In fact, most states’ CCW reciprocity arrangements with each other are ad hoc and done on a case-by-case basis, usually centering on states’ Attorneys General offices.  However, a few states, like Missouri, hard-wire reciprocity into the carry legislation’s legal language, but it’s not a two way street:  Missouri recognizes all other states’ carry permits by the letter of the law, but that by itself is not a guarantee that all those states will recognize Missouri’s permits.  Though in reality, Missouri’s permits are recognized by almost all other states that do CCW.

Ball’s In Quinn’s Court

Springfield, Illinois

Carry bill made it out of both the State House and Senate.  Now we’ll see what Governor Quinn does:  He’ll either sign to placate Appeals-7 or veto to take his chances with SCOTUS.

What is not stated in this article is the issue of reciprocity.  Would Missouri and other states’ permits be good in Illinois?

Youthful Exuberance

Baltimore

Yahoo:

8-Year-Old Suspended Over Gun-Shaped Pop-Tart Gets Lifetime NRA Membership

The National Rifle Association has given an 8-year-old boy a free lifetime membership, the Baltimore Sun reports. His achievement was chewing a Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun.

The NRA gave Joshua Welch the free membership — which usually costs $550 — at a fundraiser Wednesday night for Anne Arundel County Republicans. Welch returned to playing games on his cellphone after he got the award, the Sun reported.

Welch got on the news after his March 1 suspension from Park Elementary School for the Pop-Tart incident. He was 7 then and denied trying to make the Pop-Tart look like a weapon.

When pressed by a CBS Baltimore reporter, though, Welch said, “When I was done, it turned out to be a gun, yeah.”

Park Elementary told parents it would give counseling to any children who needed it after the Pop-Tart incident.

A lawyer has filed an appeal to get the two-day suspension off Welch’s record.

The lawyer should argue the boy’s case by saying that his fashioning the Pop-Tart into a pretend gun was all a matter of youthful exuberance.  He’s a lot older and wiser now, and he’s in the process of turning his life around.

It works in Chicago.

Seriously, all you have to do to know why he was suspended is to look at his picture which is part of the article.  The school needed a white boy to suspend in order to even out racial suspension stats.

Welcome to the Land of Porter Wagoner

West Plains

While you’re reading about it, you can also listen to the song stylings of the county’s most famous native son.

 

 

 

 

Technology

America

I thought web browsers on treadmills were bad.  Now, rifles are Wi-Fi enabled and Linux-powered.

Can someone explain me how a gun would benefit from having connectivity to Ye Olde Internets?

H/T John Lott.

Proxy Rhetoric

Exurban Pittsburgh

RCP:

Obama, Democrats Misfire on Guns

(snip)

BELLE VERNON, Pa. — The owner of a small gun shop here sits on a wooden stool behind a glass-topped counter filled with handguns. The only thing folks talk about when they come into this store is what Washington will do next to attack gun owners, says the man, dressed in a crisp white shirt, dark blue pants and a ballcap from a local paint store.

“The story that is not being told is how afraid folks really are,” he says, refusing to have his name published. He has lived through the turbulent ’60s and ’70s and served in Vietnam, he says, but none of that compares to the fear he sees in today’s customers.

“When you have not one, not two, but dozens of women well over 70 come in here to buy a gun, something is going wrong out there,” he says. “It’s not just little old white women — it’s young people, white and black, affluent and struggling, who are worrying about the (government’s) overreach and the need to protect themselves.”

As if on cue, a middle-aged black man walks in and is greeted with a hearty handshake. The man says he came in to pick up a gun he ordered the week before.

The 65-year-old shopkeeper says everyone who walks through his door is concerned that the latest push for stricter gun laws will return to the congressional agenda, perhaps within weeks, despite his belief that Americans do not support the legislation as much as the Obama administration claims they do.

Allow me to translate.  While it’s politically incorrect to fear government, (and doing so gets you audited), it’s even more politically incorrect for these people to say what they really fear, and that is, racial upheaval.

“He has lived through the ’60s and ’70s and served in Vietnam…” — That’s code for race riots.

Substantive Due Process

Chicago

SCC:

No Guns for Certain People

From our friends over at 19WardPolitics – The great and powerful Dart has spoken!

You’d have to have a good reason to need to carry a concealed permit under Sheriff Dart’s proposal. While taping “Connected to Chicago” for Sunday morning at 6:00AM, Dart said people in high-crime zip codes would have a presumed need, but not in low-crime zip codes.

“If there’s individuals that cannot demonstrate that they have this need, then they shouldn’t be eligible for it because underlying this is not this notion that everybody, everytime, anywhere can carry guns. That’s not what they interpreted the second amendment to be yet. Yet!”

So citizens in low crime areas won’t be able to get guns? How interesting. Dart has just proposed to recreate the “separate and unequal” divisions of our past.

And now that criminals would be tipped off as to where the better odds of getting away with crime are located, what does anyone think might happen? Of course, it’s happening now anyway.

I thought of something after having read that:  If SCOTUS stares the Appeals-7 ruling or grants cert and upholds it, it might well bork the paradigm of “May Issue” CCW for Sub-Due/4th.  Which means that a given jurisdiction will have to be Shall Issue or No Issue, messeth not with Mr. In-Between.

Sheriff Dartboard’s proposal, however, is May Issue on its face but No Issue in substance.  That’s because it will cost a person a total of $565 to get a CCW permit, but OTOH he only wants to issue to people in “high-crime zip codes,” i.e. people who can ill afford it, and not issue to the people in “low-crime zip codes” that can afford it.

Kris Kobach Just Gets Awesomer and Awesomer

Topeka, Kansas

H/T Hoft.

Remember that signature.  It will be the Presidential signature one day.

Yet, ole Willard Mitt Romney could find no better use for this man but to play him then dump him like a cheap fiddle.

You’re Living In B.R.A.

Texas

Forbes:

Government will likely be unable to suppress this application of 3D-printing technology. True, they could attempt to outlaw the possession of such untraceable guns, but that would be as ineffective as current laws banning the possession of marijuana. Similarly, the government could attempt to require 3D-printers be installed with special software that only allows them to build objects from data files certified as “approved” by the authorities. But given how quickly hackers routinely “jailbreak” software restrictions on smartphones, the same would likely happen to software restrictions on 3D-printers. In other words, the genie is probably already out of the bottle.

(snip)

Furthermore, University of Chicago professor (and co-author of the bestseller Freakonomics) Steve Levitt has noted that most proposed gun controls have minimal impact on gun crime. One of the few ideas that does work is enhanced prison sentences for crimes committed with a gun. According to Levitt, the gun laws that work are ones “where you’re not tying it to the gun itself, you’re tying it to the use of guns that you don’t want.” This makes perfect sense. The government should not punish gun ownership by responsible adults, nor legitimate sporting or self-defense uses. Instead, the government should punish the misuse of a gun by criminals.

(snip)

Wilson’s innovation could thus spark a much-needed re-examination of American gun laws, including the current paradigm of imposing ever-increasing restrictions on millions of honest gun owners in an attempt to stop relatively fewer bad guys from committing gun crimes. By making it harder (if not nearly impossible) for the government to regulate gun possession and transfers, his development could move the government to instead (properly) focus its efforts on punishing gun misuse.

That is why I’m encouraged by the development of 3D-printed guns. Not because I want bad guys committing more gun crimes. But because I hope it sparks some vigorous discussions on deeper themes such as “innocent until proven guilty” and the proper scope of government. If enough people start debating these questions, Cody Wilson will have done America a real service.

Reality check.

Remember, you’re living in B.R.A.  Of the two options, either requiring 3D printers to be hooked to some central brain so that printing firearms can be blocked, or putting Bellcurvii in their proper cages slash not letting criminally-prone nasty non-whites immigrate in, which do you think is actually going to happen?  You know which option the left and the open borders RINO establishment want, but even if it was left up to the race denying penny wise and pound foolish official 2A community, we would wind up with the former option instead of the latter anyway.

Janet Writes Jay a Letter

Jefferson City

Little Jaybird just got his hands caught in the CCW private information jar:

The latest hobby horse being trotted out now is that the Feds needed access to this information (namely, who in Missouri has CCW permits) in order to “weed out fraud.”  But I doubt hardly any if any Missourians who go through what it takes to get a carry permit, including visiting the County Sheriff’s office (or in case of St. Louis County, the HQ of that “Internationally Accredited” St. Louis County P.D.), are engaged in any kind of fraud.  I’d like to know what kind of “fraud” was supposed to be afoot.

The reason drivers licenses are germane here is that Missouri CCW licenses are merely a new endorsement on one’s own drivers license, not a separate card.

Nixon abuses power…it’s like it’s 1974 all over again.

I’m Upset, Too

Greeley, Colorado

The natives are restless?  This billboard upsets me, too.

This anti-white race pandering in the 2A community needs to stop by yesterday.

It’s Called “May Issue”

Springfield

Illinois CCW update.

P-D:

Illinois Senate legislation allowing the carrying of concealed weapons appears less permissive than touted but it’s scheduled for a rewrite before it’s even filed.

The Associated Press on Monday obtained a copy of Chicago Democratic Sen. Kwame Raoul’s  bill. He called it a compromise between Chicago lawmakers fighting street violence and downstate moderates who want easier access to guns.

The legislation would require applicants statewide to be of “good moral character” and have “proper reason” to obtain a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

Gun-rights supporters say those are subjective opinions that go beyond ensuring applicants are properly trained and have no criminal background.

Rikeesha Phelon is a spokeswoman for Senate Democrats. She says the legislation won’t be filed and will be rewritten.

Basically, this bill was “May Issue.”  In practicality, it would have meant that almost all counties south of Joliet would essentially be “Shall Issue” while Cook and maybe some collar counties would be “No Issue.”

Pray, since when did Chicago politicians get into the “fighting street violence” business when there is such a clear and smooth continuum between Chicago politicians and street gangs that you can’t tell where one ends and the other begins?  Enacting “Shall Issue” CCW will marginally help “fight street violence,” which is why Chicago politicians don’t want it.

Roads Diverging in a Yellow Wood

Washington, D.C.

Rush:

The Democrats defeating Obama’s gun control bill in the Senate was an earthquake for Obama.  He was livid about that.  I think he probably still is.  The Democrats were supposed to pass Obama’s gun control bill.  It was supposed to die in the House where the Republicans run the show.  The whole purpose of that bill was written so that the Republicans would never vote for it.  That’s the truth of the matter.  That gun control bill was never intended to become law.  That was a campaign issue.

The plan was the Democrats pass it. It sails through the Senate.  Then it goes to the House where those mean Republicans, who want people to have as many guns as possible, assault rifles and whatever to shoot anybody they want, that’s what the Republicans want, they were supposed to kill it. And then Obama, who wants to win the House for the Democrats in 2014, would have a campaign issue, claiming the Republicans don’t care about kids; Republicans don’t care about people. They’re perfectly fine if people get shot. They love it. The more guns the better. That was gonna be the campaign tactic, but it blew up because the Democrats voted it down, and Obama was ticked.

So I think, to avoid the same thing happening on this Gang of Eight immigration bill in the Senate, the worst thing in the world would be if this thing died in the Senate.  This is another one.  It’s supposed to sail through the Senate, and it’s the Republicans who are supposed to stop it, so that Obama and the Democrats campaigning in 2014 can say the Republicans hate Hispanics and all that attending BS: Republicans hate Hispanics, Republicans are racists, Republicans don’t like new citizens, whatever.  But because the gun control bill lost in the Senate, I think Politico was sending a story out warning these Democrats, like Baucus and other Democrats: You guys had better get your minds right after the gun control bill and not make the same mistake.

There’s one big difference between the gun issue and the immigration issue:  While there is enough of a cultural divide among white people on the gun issue that this tactic had a small chance of working, there isn’t quite so much of an acidic divide on immigration.  If the Gang Bangers of Eight bill passes the Senate, dies in the House and Obama/OFA/Dems run these “Republicans hate Hispanics” ads, that will only increase the percentage of white people that vote Republican.

Of course, I think it’s all a moot discussion, because House districts are so well gerrymandered that save an extremely unusual circumstance, Democrats have no hope of winning the House any time this decade.  Obama’s base shows up big time in 2014?  Yeah, so what?  They’re clumped up in solid blue gerrymanders.  Obama’s base showing up might affect some Senate races, because they’re contested as statewide elections, but one extra Democrat voter voting in a blue gerrymander makes zero difference in the ultimate composition of the House.  Obama’s base showed up big time last year to re-elect Obama, and various Senate Democrats in many states, but it barely made a dent in Republican control of the House, for that reason.  I keep pointing to Ohio and Florida as examples:  Obama won both states, incumbent Democrat Senators won re-election in both states, but Republicans won 12 of 16 House seats in Ohio and 17 of 27 in Florida, because of good gerrymandering by those states’ Republican-run state legislatures in 2011.

This Time, Megan McArdle Keeps It Nice and Simple

Daily Beast

Let’s pick it up in about the middle:

Jed Bartlett doesn’t win policy debates because of his amazing tactical skills, his overpowering arguments, or the sheer persuasiveness of his granite-faced brand of urbane folksomeness.  He wins them because Aaron Sorkin is a liberal and he wants Republicans to lose on the major issues.  Unfortunately for liberals, Tom Coburn and John Boehner don’t have their lines faxed over from Hollywood every morning.

(snip)

If you want to actually understand why gun control failed, let’s try a simple exercise.  Raise your hand if you had a strong opinion about the background check bill that was in front of Congress.

Keep your hand raised if you know how your own Senator voted on it.  Otherwise put your hand down.

Keep your hand raised if you actually live in a state that might plausibly elect a Republican to congress.

Okay, now keep your hand raised if that bill was in the top one or two issues that you’ll be voting on in 2014 or 2016.  By which I mean, if your Senator votes the wrong way on that bill, you will vote for anyone who opposes them.  Anyone–even someone with the wrong opinions on gay marriage, social security reform, transportation subsidies, the Keystone XL pipeline, carbon taxes, marginal tax rates on people who make more than $250k per annum, the deficit, and student loan repayment programs.

Now look around.  Aside from those three guys in the back from Handgun Control Inc., do you know who still has their hand raised?  NRA members.

Immigration Patriots should heed this lesson.

But I don’t get why she thinks that John Boehner and Tom Coburn are examples of Obama opponents.  Boehner, you know about his lassitude and uselessness.  But don’t forget that Tom Coburn and Obama get along well, and in fact, one of Obama’s scant few Senate accomplishments (yes, it’s hard to remember that Obama spent a few days in the U.S. Senate) was co-sponsored with Coburn.

Student Activism

Logan County, West Virginia and Guilford, Connecticut.

Remember when the left loved student activism?

Illinois CCW Update

Springfield, Illinois

On Wednesday, the Illinois House rejected a New York State-style restrictive to the point of almost non-existent CCW law.  But on Thursday, they rejected a CCW proposal roughly equivalent to Missouri’s version.

What’s going on?  I think the antis have been emboldened by SCOTUS not granting cert to a challenge to NYS’s version of CCW, so they’re going to reject any CCW bill and take their chances with SCOTUS, hoping they’ll overturn Appeals-7.  But by the same token, this is the same SCOTUS with virtually the same ideological breakdown that decided for Messrs. Heller and McDonald.  So it will be a real crap shoot if that’s what the antis are up to.

 

Baucus Begich Heitkamp Pryor

U.S. Senate

The four Senate Democrats who voted against Toomey-Manchin, the “negotiated on a yacht” bill.  That alone would get me to vote against it:  Any big piece of legislation whose details were ironed out on a yacht probably isn’t good for me.  Pray, how and why does a prominent politician from a landlocked and none too prosperous state like West Virginia have a yacht?

All four are from states that have been red in all four Presidential elections since 2000.  All three men are up for re-election in 2014.

The other amazing part is that Toomey-Manchin deliberately set out to eviscerate the Second Amendment as much as its proponents thought they could get away with doing at this time, and it turned out that the thing was an even bigger violator of the Fourth Amendment.

UPDATE

On the other hand, McCain, Kirk, Toomey and Collins are the Republicans that broke ranks.  I also know that Hairy Ass Reid technically voted against it, but that was a parliamentary trick, not a real heartfelt vote.

Her People

Houston

CNS:

Rep. Jackson Lee: ‘Don’t Condemn the Gangbangers’ – We Need Gun Legislation

While pushing for more gun control legislation on the House floor, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said, “Don’t condemn the gangbangers, they’ve got guns that are trafficked.”

Jackson Lee took the House floor on April 9 to argue in favor of increased gun control legislation, “Don’t condemn the gangbangers, they’ve got guns that are trafficked — that are not enforced, that are straw purchased and they come into places even that have strong gun laws.”

“Because dem gangbangaz beez my peeps.”

Naw, she didn’t really say that.  But you know she meant it.

That’s Not What They Said

Tokyo

CNN:

Kerry: Foreign students ‘scared’ of guns in U.S.

Students in other countries assessing where to study abroad are increasingly scared of coming to the United States because of gun violence, the nation’s top diplomat said Monday.

Speaking with CNN foreign affairs correspondent Jill Dougherty in Tokyo, Secretary of State John Kerry said he’d discussed the situation with officials there who said students felt unsafe in the United States.

“We had an interesting discussion about why fewer students are coming to, particularly from Japan, to study in the United States, and one of the responses I got from our officials from conversations with parents here is that they’re actually scared. They think they’re not safe in the United States and so they don’t come,” Kerry said.

He noted Japan’s restrictive gun laws – which prevent private ownership of nearly all firearms, including handguns – and said the country was safer “where people are not running around with guns.”

This happened in Japan, so I doubt this is what they said.  If they did say it, they only said it to be diplomatic towards a diplomat.

What they really said, or they really meant, is that they’re afraid of America’s blacks.

Japan is safer because of its lack of blacks, save “American” occupiers servicemen who are known to rape Japanese women frequently.  Otherwise, I bet that the Japanese in Japan and Japanese-Americans have crime perpetration rates that are extremely similar.

 

Italian Supercars

Washington, D.C.

While we’re on the subject of coveting Italian supercars, Lamborghini recently moved its American business headquarters to the Washington, D.C. area.  And if you can’t figure out why, then please stop breathing.

Next thing you know, Joke Biden will be on the Morning Joke show equating firearms to phallic braggadocio.  And again that will be ironic, because probably half of D.C.’s men are on Viagra.

Universal Background Check

Missouri

It was so easy to forget, because it was so useless to begin with.

PJ Media reminds me that there is a precedent for “universal background checks” — The old “permit to transfer a concealable firearm” scheme that Missouri had until August 2007.   Yes, I had to endure this paperwork process when I bought my pistol.

Yes, Clayton Cramer, writing for PJ Media, makes good points.  But take it from someone who actually went through that paperwork jungle — The goofiest thing about that quasi-”universal background check” was that I never heard of anyone being criminally charged for not filling out this paperwork.  And it’s not as if proving that you transferred a concealable firearm (“handgun”) without filling out this paperwork would have been hard, because the sheriff’s office kept a copy.

 

Nobody’s In a Snitching Mood

New York State

Hardly any takers in the snitch-on-thy-gunowner-neighbor tip line in New York State, which has actually been in existence for more than a year.

Who would snitch?  Do they expect ghetto blacks and barrio Hispanics to snitch on their own gang bangers when half of them are running around with “Stop Snitching” and “Warn-a-Brother” T-shirts on?  Do they expect rural white people to snitch on rural white people?  Maybe who would snitch are busybody know-it-all know-nothing suburban white liberals on their more conservative neighbors, like what happened in New Jersey last weekend.

Internal Influences

Colorado

Magpul’s official statement on having to leave Colorado:

We have said all along that based on the legal problems and uncertainties in the bill, as well as general principle, we will have no choice but to leave if the Governor signs this into law. We will start our transition out of the state almost immediately, and we will prioritize moving magazine manufacturing operations first. We expect the first PMAGs to be made outside CO within 30 days of the signing, with the rest to follow in phases. We will likely become a multi-state operation as a result of this move, and not all locations have been selected. We have made some initial contacts and evaluated a list of new potential locations for additional manufacturing and the new company headquarters, and we will begin talks with various state representatives in earnest if the Governor indeed signs this legislation. Although we are agile for a company of our size, it is still a significant footprint, and we will perform this move in a manner that is best for the company and our employees.

It is disappointing to us that money and a social agenda from outside the state have apparently penetrated the American West to control our legislature and Governor, but we feel confident that Colorado residents can still take the state back through recalls, ballot initiatives, and the 2014 election to undo these wrongs against responsible Citizens.

Except that “social agenda” didn’t come from “outside the state.” It came from inside the state, because kooky white liberals formerly from California have been fleeing the consequences of their own actions only to plant themselves in other states like Colorado and re-create the same messes in their new states that they created in their old state. So, in a way, this legislative travesty isn’t the result of anyone being bought and paid for, but it’s a result of internal “immigration,” so to speak. Maybe we could take a lesson about external immigration from all this.

“The 2014 election” — Good luck with that. 2010 was a red wave election year, but even then, Democrat Michael Bennet defeated Republican Ken Buck for a Senate seat from Colorado, and the self same John Hickenlooper who is about to sign this atrocious bill into state law won Governor with a majority of the vote. Thanks to white liberals and Hispanics, Colorado is too far gone demographically even for low turnout midterm elections to make a difference.

It’s a Who-Whom Thing

Washington, D.C.

The 2A question is basically another front in the culture wars by any other name.

Remember, when you’re hearing a lot of political and social chatter about “what,” it usually is a smokescreen for “who” and “whom.”  See also:  Cigarettes.

Border

NRA

Could the NRA be waking up?  They almost broached the R-word taboo here.

Risky Business

Springfield, Illinois

Quinn and Madigan are both sitting at 14 at the blackjack table.  Quinn says hit, Madigan says hold.

Yeah, maybe SCOTUS would overturn the 7th.  But maybe they wouldn’t, and in the process, they would set a big precedent relating to both CCW and interstate reciprocity thereof, and perhaps also bork a lot of these post-Sandy Hook gun grabber bills.  However, under Madigan’s hold strategy, Illinois can pass CCW legislation in theory but is so gutted and watered down that it might as well not exist, and since it would have no reciprocity, we still wouldn’t be able to cross the river while carrying.

Disparate Impact

Washington, D.C.

Read it all, then come back here.

Good, you came back.

I see what’s going on here — If the only thing that has a chance of passing is legislation that forces the few legal non-NICS sales to be run in a consignment sort of way through a FLFD so it does run through NICS, and making it a Federal crime not to do so, guess what the disparate impact is going to be?

Or rather, not what, but Who-Whom?

Enforced properly, these laws could be a huge cramp on the “keepin’ it real” ghetto “life” style.  Imagine the ramifications that would come if every time gang banging N’Deshawntavious hands off his piece to every gang banging Shitavious makes them both liable for a Federal prison bid — Either they actually go to Federal prison, or both become stool pidegons in exchange for the cops and the DA’s office not referring those matters to the U.S. Attorney’s office, or you have so many new Federal gun crimes taking place just as a natural consequence of the way black and Hispanic gangs operate that the whole damned operation can be busted for RICO and picked apart in a hurry.

The only hitch is, does the Yankee government want to build, own and operate a Federal prison near every Rand McNally-worthy town in America?