There is no doubt in my mind that the progressive socialist democrats are following Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals to create enough chaos and confusion to disrupt and eventually destroy our present political system in the United States.

Consider the political strategy outlined in Alinsky Rule #4, “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”

With all the current emphasis on disarming the law-abiding system with onerous gun controls, releasing criminals back into the community, and the implementation of restorative justice, which places the perpetrator on a par with their victim by claiming the perpetrator is also a “victim of a broke and failing systemically racist system,” what sense does it make to fight for criminal’s rights to own and possess a firearm?

Statement by Joe Biden Three Years After the Parkland Shooting

This Administration will not wait for the next mass shooting to heed that call. We will take action to end our epidemic of gun violence and make our schools and communities safer. Today, I am calling on Congress to enact commonsense gun law reforms, including requiring background checks on all gun sales, banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers who knowingly put weapons of war on our streets. We owe it to all those we’ve lost and to all those left behind to grieve to make a change. The time to act is now. <Source>

Yet, here we find George Gascón, the George Soros-backed radical communist District Attorney of Los Angeles County and formerly the District Attorney of San Francisco, championing criminal's rights.

Los Angeles DA George Gascón Defends Law That Puts Guns in the Hands of Criminals

Assembly Bill 3234, by Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), which was passed last year by the California Legislature after being gutted and amended, created a diversion program allowing criminals to continue to own or possess guns.

“Meanwhile, gun violence in Los Angeles is soaring. Murders in Los Angeles County are up 136.4% and shootings are up 261.5%. Attacks on police officers are up 300% from January 1 through January 18, 2021 when compared to the same time period in 2020. The chance of becoming a victim of any firearm crime (violent or property) in Los Angeles is now 1 in 33.” <Source>

From the FACT SHEET: AB 3234 makes most misdemeanor crimes eligible for dismissal—eliminating firearm prohibitions. Assembly Bill 3234 excludes only a few misdemeanor crimes from potential diversion. (Crimes requiring registration under Penal Code 290, 273.5, 646.9, and 243(e)(1).) This law would make all these misdemeanor crimes diversion eligible, and therefore there would be no firearm prohibition regardless of the conduct leading to an arrest.

 An open secret…

Many gun-related crimes, which should be treated as serious felonies with an enhancement for the possession or use of a firearm, are never charged, or the more serious aspects of the felony are plea-bargained down to a misdemeanor. According to the text of the legislation,

“This bill would authorize a judge in the superior court in which a misdemeanor is being prosecuted to offer misdemeanor diversion to a defendant over the objection of a prosecuting attorney, except as specified. The bill would authorize the judge to continue a diverted case for a period not to exceed 24 months and order the defendant to comply with the terms, conditions, and programs the judge deems appropriate based on the defendant’s specific situation. The bill would require the judge, at the end of the diversion period and if the defendant complies with all required terms, conditions, and programs, to dismiss the action against the defendant, and would deem the arrest upon which diversion was imposed to have never occurred, as specified. The bill would authorize the court to end the diversion and order resumption of the criminal proceedings if the court finds that the defendant is not complying with the terms and conditions of diversion.<Source>

Thus, a criminal not only has no prior offenses that would mandate more serious charges, but they are also still able to own and possess firearms.

In the words of Joe Biden, “A Bad Dude”…

George Gascón: A Rogue Prosecutor Whose Extreme Policies Undermine the Rule of Law and Make Los Angeles Less Safe

George Gascón, the Soros-backed former District Attorney of San Francisco, is now the District Attorney for Los Angeles County. He has, in mere weeks, put into place radical pro-criminal and anti-prosecution policies and is, in a twisted way, the gold standard for rogue prosecutors. The impact of his reckless and dangerous policies is just starting to be felt—and will come into full bloom in the months and years ahead.

Gascón’s Special Directives and Their Impact

Gascón’s policies, issued in a series of Special Directives, which all prosecutors in the office are required to read and know and which have been incorporated into the office’s Legal Policies Manual, are nothing short of nuclear explosions aimed at his own office and prosecutors, undercutting and undermining them in the performance of their duties. Written by or with the assistance of his “transition team” or “public policy advisors”—virtually all of whom are criminal defense attorneys or radical pro-criminal activists—these policies benefit murderers, cop killers, child and adult rapists, career felons, and other dangerous criminals. None of his policies benefits victims of crime.

While this might sound hyperbolic, unfortunately, it is not. Gascón is a rogue among rogues.

Unlike all the other elected rogue prosecutors, Gascón’s policies apply not only to future cases, but also to all ongoing and even past cases. Let that sink in. And once it does, it becomes obvious that the cumulative effect of Gascón’s radical new policies is to eviscerate the ability of the District Attorney’s office to protect the public, to defang the enforcement of criminal law in Los Angeles County, to let many criminals (including violent ones), go free—and even to unwind many past convictions. If the goal of a prosecutor is to seek justice, Gascón certainly has a perverted sense of it. <Source>

Among other things, Gascón is opening old police cases and placing previously-cleared officers in renewed jeopardy for the pleasure of the mob.

Newly elected Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon has selected a deadly 2015 police shooting in Long Beach as one of four cases he plans to reopen, the Long Beach Post reported Thursday.

The shooting occurred April 23 when Officer Jeffrey A. Meyer shot 19-year-old Hector Morejon while responding to a report of trespassing and vandalism at a vacant apartment unit in the 1100 block of Hoffman Avenue, which is in the Cambodia Town area of Long Beach.

Police said at the time Meyer fired his weapon when he saw Morejon turn around and extend his arm outward as if pointing a firearm. Morejon died later at a hospital, police said. No weapon was recovered. <Source>

I remember this case; the optics are horrible; the victim appeared drunk out of his mind and unable to respond to police officers hidden from view. The shooting occurred when the victim turned toward the police holding a while “holding a pistol-grip water hose nozzle” for some unknown reason. There were numerous procedural failures, but none rise to the level of re-opening the case. The City of Long Beach settled the civil suit for $1.5 million.

Bottom line…

To all the progressive socialist democrat idiots: it’s a crime control, not gun control. Guns do not decide to kill or injure individuals, any more than cars without drunk drivers  at the wheel represent a threat that demands automakers be responsible for drunk drivers.

We are so screwed. Let us hope the pendulum swings toward the middle once again.

-- steve