I was thinking that since I lived in a country where malaria and other diseases are endemic, I have a good idea how the epidemiology to contain outbreaks work.
First you locate a place where we are having the most problems. For the Gun Control experts’ medical treatment, Chicago as a well-known location where there is an issue with the “Gun Virus.” Epidemiologists will be sent to examine the problem or better yet, we ask locals (in this case Chicago PD officers) where are the worst spots of Gun Virus infection (“gun violence” and “gun crime”.) Once we figure out the specific hot spots, we begin by isolating them from the less affected or unaffected parts of Chicago. I am guessing barriers and fences to avoid that the Carriers of the Gun Virus should get out and avoid treatment.
Now that we have the location sealed as best as possible, we start targeting the locations where the Carriers of the Gun Virus might be located, just like we do for mosquitoes.
But now we have a problem, just like not all mosquitoes carry malaria, not all the humans in the confined areas are Carriers of the Gun Virus. However since we can’t distinguish one from another, we have to ignore that difference and treat the infected area. Remember, we are doing this for the Children!
The most efficient way is to intensely spray/fog/fumigate the area by truck:
By air:
And even door to door because we want to make sure not a single Gun Virus Carrier escapes:
So, let me see. The Gun Control crowd wants to treat the “Gun Crime” like it is an epidemic which obviously we need to treat according to the best epidemiological practices which include the isolation of the carriers on the areas of “infection” and their elimination by wide-area means which are not selective and pretty much will kill non-carriers also. I seem to recall that the method has been tried before and achieved great success against the carriers of other maladies.
Yup, Warsaw was a great epidemiological success in the treatment of the Semite Virus.
Maybe Shannon Watts should rename her group as Moms Demand Extermination for Gun Sense in America.
And I might be exaggerating, but just a very small bit. If you believe that the idea of mass incarceration and extermination of Gun Owners has not crossed the minds of some in the Opposition, you better wake the heck up or you will find yourself staring at the ugly mug of Ladd Everitt looking down at you in your bedroom.
I’ve heard this crap before.
Here is their argument:
Exposure to gun violence caused more gun violence, hence, it’s a virus.
Here is their argument, devoid of PC nonsense:
If you are a poor, fatherless, kid in a neighborhood filled with gangs, and somebody shoots a gang member from your block, you are statistically likely to grow up, joint that gang, then go shoot a gang member from the other block that shot your homie first.
For most of the country this seems pretty logical and makes sense why there is a cycle of violence in poor, gang infested, communities.
However, putting it like that makes people responsible for their own actions. Maybe if the kid grew up with a dad instead of older gang members as male authority figures, or if he chose not to join the gang, the cycle would be broken. But they can’t acknowledge that. It’s not inner city culture. It’s guns. Guns are a vector for infection. Guns are like little Typhoid Marries making people shoot one another.
We know what the problem is. They just want to frame it as a virus to make it the fault of the gun and not the moral failing of inner city culture that is the issue.
I note with no small irony that they producers chose to address this topic for the VERY LAST episode of the series…no doubt to avoid having to deal with any backlash from a one-sided presentation.
A ‘parting shot’ if you will.
(More like a ‘ricer fly-by’) http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ricer+flyby
Isn’t it “internet wisdom” that if a headline is phrased as a question, the answer is almost always “No” ?
They are at it with the old “every 17 minutes” crap again. That’s as bad as the bullshit meme “gun violence” — as we are all well aware, and which they deliberately ignore, is deliberately tossing the baby into the bath water. Sheesh !!! Just once I’d like them to be honest. Just once! Nah. Not gonna happen. The narrative must not be deviated from!
(Done venting)