How about solving murders instead of gun control?

March 10, 2013

By John Seiler

California already has among the country’s most restrictive gun laws. Not satisfied with existing attacks on our Second Amendment “right to keep and bear arms,” the state Legislature is pushing even more restrictive legislation. Supposedly it would reduce murders. Although the evidence shows the opposite: that “More Guns, Less Crime,” because the more armed honest citizens are, the better they can deter criminals.

Instead, how about if the Legislature enacted laws to make sure more homicides are solved? According to the Bee, Sacramento County — the very home of the state government — has “an appallingly long list of local unsolved homicides.

“The sheriff’s department counts 140 uncleared homicides from 2000 through 2012. There are 16, including Jessica [Funk-Haslam], from last year — the most since 2005. The Sacramento Police Department says it has at least 120 from 2000 through 2012.”

Worse:

“Statewide from 2000 through 2009, there were more than 22,800 homicides, but only about 12,400 were solved during that decade. The ratio of unsolved homicides to total cases is much worse in other big counties — including Alameda, Los Angeles and San Francisco — than in Sacramento.”

So 46 percent of murders aren’t being solved.

Why isn’t solving these murders the first priority of our police and sheriffs, with their massive pay, perks and pensions? Isn’t public safety the main reason we have government in the first place, with its incredible cost in taxation, regulation and control?

As to gun control, only honest people would follow it. The thousands — literally thousands — of murderers still running loose in this state won’t follow new gun laws any more than they did the laws against murder.

More gun control also would disarm the innocent, leaving us soft prey for those thousands of murderers out there eager, because the government is too incompetent to catch them, to kill and kill again.