Bloody Baltimore Shows What Happens When You Trade Essential Liberty For Temporary Safety

By Bob Owens

This is what the top of the Drudge Report looks like right now, at 7:30 PM on a Thursday.

STREET ANARCHY IN BALTIMORE...
RESIDENTS FEARFUL AMID RASH OF HOMICIDES...
CITY GETS BLOODIER...
7-Year-Old Boy, Mother Fatally Shot In Head...
Police Say Mobs Gather Around Officers When Responding to Calls...
MD Sheriff: Cops 'have been eviscerated, disemboweled'...
AUDIO: Police Commissioner Privately Apologizes To His Officers...
'People Have Given Up On Us'...

The body count continues to grow in Baltimore, with a 31-year-old mother and a seven-year-old boy becoming the 37th and 38th murder victims of May today. It hasn’t been this bloody in Baltimore since November 1999, during the Clinton Presidency, and we still have several more days remaining in the month.

Arrests have now declined by more than half as police strike a defensive posture, having been thrown to the wolves by a city government pandering to the criminal underclass who elected them over the still-unexplained death of Freddie Gray.

Officers are reported to be swarmed by hostile mobs if they dare respond to calls, in a city that is on the brink of a full failure of civility. Therefore, they tread cautiously, and only with support. Their presence has concentrated. Criminals have …read more

Source:: Bearing Arms