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ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” Had he lived in today’s world, he might have saved his poetic stiletto for a human flaw more threatening than the tendency to stay the course: hypocrisy. No hobgoblin, hypocrisy is real and particularly glaring when practiced by officialdom.
Practiced to perfection have been the double standards applied to persons who burned and pillaged cities across the nation during summer 2020 compared to those who rampaged at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. The black-clad anarchists have been treated as if they were nothing more than misbehaving schoolchildren. In contrast, the flag-waving trespassers have been hunted down and locked up by President Biden’s Democratic establishment. Justice is now the handmaiden of politics.
The U.S. Justice Department is creating five strike forces to disrupt illegal firearms trafficking. Author: Janet Roach Updated: 5:38 PM EDT July 22, 2021
NORFOLK, Va. The post on Norfolk s Police Department s Facebook page says it all: 481 firearms have been recovered since the start of the year, 64 from felons. The city is on pace to surpass last year s recoveries of 850 firearms, the most secured in almost a decade.
It s with similar statistics from across the country that have the U.S. Justice Department is launching five cross-jurisdictional strike forces to help reduce gun violence. Officials want to catch more firearms on the front end before they travel to a criminal s grip.
Justice Dept. Seeks to Curb Illegal Gun Trafficking
Five strike forces across the country will work with local law enforcement to fight violent crime.
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, left, Senator Richard J. Durbin, center, and Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago announcing a plan to reduce illegal gun sales.Credit.Pool photo by Samuel Corum
July 22, 2021
CHICAGO The Justice Department on Thursday began putting in place a plan to reduce violent crime in the nation’s largest cities, detailing the work of five federal strike forces aimed at disrupting illegal gun traffickers who flood urban streets with illicit firearms.
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland traveled to Chicago, where one of the strike forces will be located, to highlight the plan and underscore the Biden administration’s efforts to curb the spread of illegal firearms. A Chicago police officer and two agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were shot while working undercover in the