MS-13 Going “Low Pro” December 16, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Hispanic Crime, Mexico & Latin America.comments closed
But not him
CHIMALTENANGO, Guatemala - Tattoos, baggy pants and tank tops are out. Smart blazers and university recruits are in.
It’s an extreme makeover for Central America’s gangs. Facing harsh crackdowns by government security forces and citizen vigilante groups, they are trying to lower their profile.
The Mara 18 and Mara Salvatrucha gangs are known throughout Central America and the U.S. for their brazen tactics, including beheading their enemies and covering entire buildings and even their bodies with gang symbols.
Now, according to anti-gang operatives, these traditionally uneducated and aimless youth have begun recruiting high school and college students, and are expanding their criminal repertoire from minor robbery to large-scale extortion, prostitution, car theft and kidnappings.
If we’re to believe the leftist canard that poverty causes crime and education cures all, then MS-13, Mara 18 and the gang of gangs wouldn’t even try to recruit students.
This writer opposes “baggy pants” ordinances on Constitutional grounds, but this story is an outlet to another reason why those ordinances won’t do any good. It doesn’t matter if the gangsters are wearing ties or tats, or is wearing his pants at the waist or at the knees. It’s like putting lipstick on a pig.
Tell the ATF December 16, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in 2nd Amendment & CCW, Black Crime, Police & Law Enforcement, St. Louis Local.comments closed
KSDK-NBC-5, on yesterday’s “Gun Buyback“:
“We want to take away the opportunity to steal a weapon and use it against someone. Bad guys don’t go out and purchase guns, we know that. They go out and acquire guns by stealing them so if we can get them out of people’s homes, we serve two purposes. We take it out of the bad guys’ homes and take it out of homes where people have children,” said St. Louis Police Sgt. Perri Johnson.
Really? Tell that to the ATF, which is still obsessed with straws.
By the way, is anyone really buying the notion that there were “long lines” outside the buyback facility yesterday? And is anyone buying the notion that people in “bad guys’ homes” turned in any guns?
