{"id":101623,"date":"2024-04-30T18:13:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T23:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=101623"},"modified":"2024-04-30T18:13:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T23:13:17","slug":"101623","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=101623","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/ag-merrick-garland-admits-that-its-gang-violence-not-gun-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AG Merrick Garland Admits That It\u2019s *Gang* Violence, Not \u2018Gun Violence\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/one-more-time-its-not-gun-violence-its-gang-violence\/\">We\u2019ve written about i<\/a>t\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/sorry-beto-gun-violence-isnt-the-biggest-killer-of-kids-in-america-gang-violence-is\/\">repeatedly<\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s\u00a0<em>gang<\/em>\u00a0violence that\u2019s rampant across America, not so-called \u201cgun violence.\u201d The problem has become so bad that even full-time partisan political hack and part-time Attorney General Merrick Garland admitted as much at an ATF \u201csummit\u201d just days ago. Of course, the mainstream media ignored it. What\u2019s more, his comment even escaped most of the alternative news outlets as well.<\/p>\n<p>Garland abandoned his \u201cChristian Nationalist\u201d and \u201cWhite Supremacist\u201d bogeymen to admit that gangs members and repeat offenders are driving the gun violence problem in America. And for the slow-witted trolls in comments, this isn\u2019t the MAGA gang either.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt from the transcript\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/speech\/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland-delivers-remarks-atfs-inaugural-gun-violence\">provided by the US Department of Justice<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_inline tdi_2_a69 td_block_template_1\">\n<div id=\"wh_17415148_1\" class=\"ads_container\"><em>We are using our prosecutorial and technological tools to identify the repeat offenders and gangs who are principally responsible for community violence.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>And here\u2019s the video which begins at 28:00 when Garland admits what we\u2019ve known for a long, long time: that repeat offenders and gang members (sorry for repeating ourselves in so many instances) are driving violent crime:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vc03L-uthOk?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en-US&amp;autohide=2&amp;start=1681&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vc03L-uthOk?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en-US&amp;autohide=2&amp;start=1681&amp;wmode=transparent\" data-load-mode=\"1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yes, the mainstream media and left-leaning pols love to redirect low-information voters from violent criminals to the tools they misuse.<\/p>\n<p>I love it when soft-on-crime politicians get very defensive and very animated when you talk about gang violence in their presence or correct them when they throw out the \u201cgun violence\u201d talking point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t talk about gangs,\u201d one Illinois State Representative from Chicago said to me as I sat in his office in my role as executive director of Guns Save Life. His body language screamed his discomfort at where the conversation was headed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy\u2019s that?\u201d I asked, knowing that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagomag.com\/chicago-magazine\/january-2012\/gangs-and-politicians-an-unholy-alliance\/\">gangs deliver votes and even campaign volunteers come election time<\/a>. At least they do in Chicagoland.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t want to answer but watching him literally squirm in his chair proved priceless for me and those with me.<\/p>\n<p>If Chicago is typical of deep blue, high-crime urban areas, gangs drive the great majority of shootings. In Decatur, virtually every fatal shooting and even most of the non-fatal shootings are the result of black gang members shooting at one another. Usually they shoot up one another or family members of gang members, but unfortunately, sometimes they hit innocent people too.<\/p>\n<p>Like Robbie Patton, a sociopathic predator who will never contribute anything but sewage and sadness to our society. Patton shot at and tried to murder some others who \u201cdisrespected\u201d one of his fellow bangers at a Steak and Shake in nearby Champaign, Illinois. Then he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunssavelife.com\/2016\/09\/29\/time-to-retire-dear-judge-tom-difanis\/\">led police on a high-speed chase while driving a stolen (carjacked?) car<\/a>. He got away but was picked up days later. Instead of doing hard time for attempted murder, he was sentenced to \u201cboot camp\u201d for a few months before being released eight months into an eight-year sentence.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_546350\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-546350\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-546350\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Robbie-Patton-at-arraignment.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Robbie-Patton-at-arraignment.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Robbie-Patton-at-arraignment-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Robbie-Patton-at-arraignment-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Robbie-Patton-at-arraignment-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Robbie-Patton-at-arraignment-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Robbie-Patton-at-arraignment-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Robbie-Patton-at-arraignment-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Robbie-Patton-at-arraignment-560x373.jpg 560w\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-546350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robbie Patton at his arraignment. Champaign County Courts image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Within\u00a0<em>two days<\/em>\u00a0of his release he was arrested (and released) again for drugs. Two weeks after that, he had another stolen gun. When he felt \u201cdisrespected,\u201d he pulled that gun out and started shooting, hitting three with his shots.<\/p>\n<p>Among his victims was George Korchev, out celebrating his graduation from nursing school. Korchev also celebrated landing a new job saving lives as a nurse in a suburban Chicago hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Korchev became the unintended backstop to one of Patton\u2019s errant rounds, getting hit a block away. He wouldn\u2019t make it to work that next Monday because he died from the wound\u2014caused by the gang banger and repeat offender Robbie Patton and his lack of impulse control.<\/p>\n<p>Korchev was set to start a life as a productive citizen, helping to save lives. He would have gotten married, had kids and raised a productive family. George would have given his parents grandchildren. He would have lived probably 60 more years, contributing positive energy to making our world a better place by saving lives and treating the sick. But all of that was taken away by not sentencing a habitual criminal thug named Robbie Patton to hard time in prison where he belonged.<\/p>\n<p>When you hear friends or family lament \u201cgun violence,\u201d remind them that it\u2019s not \u201cgun violence\u201d but gang violence that drives so much of the criminal violence in our large urban areas as well as mid-sized cities across America. Even Merrick Garland says so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AG Merrick Garland Admits That It\u2019s *Gang* Violence, Not \u2018Gun Violence\u2019 We\u2019ve written about it\u00a0repeatedly.\u00a0 It\u2019s\u00a0gang\u00a0violence that\u2019s rampant across America, not so-called \u201cgun violence.\u201d The problem has become so bad that even full-time partisan political hack and part-time Attorney General Merrick Garland admitted as much at an ATF \u201csummit\u201d just days ago. 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