Fallacy and Failure

ABC kicked off last night's evening news broadcast with a story about notorious youth violence rocking Chicago and Obama's response of sending in his Attorney General and education secretary. The first words uttered about the city's tragedy by an emergency room doctor were a denunciation of guns. It is a lack of values, not the presence of firearms that have caused the violence. Chicago has already imposed about as tight a set of restrictions on legal gun ownership as exist anywhere. Nationally, the possession of firearms by minors is illegal. In Chicago, the possession of firearms is virtually restricted to everyone but law enforcement. With this gun prohibition, the law-abiding have had to relinquish their ability to protect themselves while armed felons, who after all are criminals who by their nature ignore and defy law, run rampant, able to do as they will on a whim, knowing the limited resources of law enforcement, literally allow them to commit, if not get away with, murder. Chicago's struggles should conclusively prove the futility of stripping good and honest citizens of their ability to defend their rights, life, and property. Scofflaws run riot over well-meaning Chicagoans who have followed the law. The next story on the ABC telecast demonstrated the failure of the welfare state in Detroit. A Federal program lured those most suffering from the economic crisis to that city's convention center to endure their own mini-Hurricane Katrina hell in hopes of gaining additional government support. People fought in line for their handouts and fainted in droves. Police and ambulances were summoned and arrests were made. Will Obama be subjected to the Bush treatment and accused of gross negligence in Detroit as the last President was in New Orleans and surely would have been in this incident were he still president? The dependency state, that Obama is bent on advancing, forced the black father from the family and has been catastrophic for our country and ultimately fed the crime that we have seen in Chicago by removing the discipline and structure of the two parent household. If the family stayed together and the father was gainfully employed, they were not eligible for generous government benefits, but if the father was chased from the home, the door was opened to AFDC and welfare checks, thus creating perverse incentive for single motherhood and contributing to the dissolution of the black family unit which prior to the early 1960s had been the bedrock of the black community and had helped create a black middle and professional class, even under the adversity of Jim Crow and segregation. Liberals, trying to help, with only the best intentions, destroyed those they were attempting to assist. Now, liberals want to help us all with health care. Do you think we can really afford much more help?