In my last post I pointed out that Hamlin has this ideology where he thinks that the way to stop these shootings is simply not to give out much information on these shooters or not 'glorifying them' somehow in covering who they are and what they did.
I've come to the conclusion that this is a terrible idea.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/10/why-police-chief-john-haulin-refuses-to.html
The main problem I have is that it's a weak excuse for why we have this epidemic of gun violence-it's mostly meant to take our attention from the clear problem that guns are so easy to put in the hands of people who are unbalanced.
But from a police and forensics standpoint it's just gibberish. You need to know what happened to prevent it happening again. You have to build a profile of these shooters so you can isolate the variables that cause this to keep happening.
It's' clear that a big variable is availability of guns. And that's just what a gun nut like the Sheriff wants to obscure.
But in his case, it's more than simply trying to obscure. From what we're hearing, he may himself be actively to blame for what has happened here.
Consider what he wrote to Vice President Biden a few years ago.
"Cuomo cited a 2013 letter Hanlin wrote to Vice President Joe Biden asking him to preserve the Second Amendment and informing him that Hanlin would refuse to enforce "unconstitutional regulations or orders"—meaning executive actions on gun control—in Douglas County. The letter came a month after the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre, when Washington was abuzz with talk of enacting stricter gun control measures."
"Gun control is NOT the answer to preventing heinous crimes like school shootings," Hanlin wrote in the letter. "Any actions against, or in disregard for our U.S. Constitution and 2nd Amendment rights by the current administration would be irresponsible and an indisputable insult to the American people."
"Afterward, Hanlin was one of hundreds of sheriffs cited by the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) as a law enforcement official who "vowed to uphold and defend the Constitution against Obama’s unconstitutional gun control measures." The CSPOA, founded by former Graham County, Arizona sheriff Richard Mack, is like the loosely-organized militia group Oath Keepers in that its members tout an oath to "uphold and defend" the Constitution."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/john-hanlin-gun-control-constitutional
In watching Sheriff Hamlin in action on cable news the last 15 hours it's clear his main personal concern is to push back on any need for gun control whatever.
But doesn't his admission of not enforcing laws on his own books constitute a terrible crime of complicity on his part?
When the parents of these lost college students-and the Sheriff has not even been willing to release their names even now which is just cruel-want to figure out who is to blame for this, shouldn't they start with their own country sheriff?
I've come to the conclusion that this is a terrible idea.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/10/why-police-chief-john-haulin-refuses-to.html
The main problem I have is that it's a weak excuse for why we have this epidemic of gun violence-it's mostly meant to take our attention from the clear problem that guns are so easy to put in the hands of people who are unbalanced.
But from a police and forensics standpoint it's just gibberish. You need to know what happened to prevent it happening again. You have to build a profile of these shooters so you can isolate the variables that cause this to keep happening.
It's' clear that a big variable is availability of guns. And that's just what a gun nut like the Sheriff wants to obscure.
But in his case, it's more than simply trying to obscure. From what we're hearing, he may himself be actively to blame for what has happened here.
Consider what he wrote to Vice President Biden a few years ago.
"Cuomo cited a 2013 letter Hanlin wrote to Vice President Joe Biden asking him to preserve the Second Amendment and informing him that Hanlin would refuse to enforce "unconstitutional regulations or orders"—meaning executive actions on gun control—in Douglas County. The letter came a month after the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre, when Washington was abuzz with talk of enacting stricter gun control measures."
"Gun control is NOT the answer to preventing heinous crimes like school shootings," Hanlin wrote in the letter. "Any actions against, or in disregard for our U.S. Constitution and 2nd Amendment rights by the current administration would be irresponsible and an indisputable insult to the American people."
"Afterward, Hanlin was one of hundreds of sheriffs cited by the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) as a law enforcement official who "vowed to uphold and defend the Constitution against Obama’s unconstitutional gun control measures." The CSPOA, founded by former Graham County, Arizona sheriff Richard Mack, is like the loosely-organized militia group Oath Keepers in that its members tout an oath to "uphold and defend" the Constitution."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/john-hanlin-gun-control-constitutional
In watching Sheriff Hamlin in action on cable news the last 15 hours it's clear his main personal concern is to push back on any need for gun control whatever.
But doesn't his admission of not enforcing laws on his own books constitute a terrible crime of complicity on his part?
When the parents of these lost college students-and the Sheriff has not even been willing to release their names even now which is just cruel-want to figure out who is to blame for this, shouldn't they start with their own country sheriff?
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