Baltimore Focuses on Guns to Distract from Top-Down Incompetence, Corruption

And naturally, to deal with that, corrupt and incompetent public “officials” do what corrupt and incompetent public “officials” do everywhere their utter worthlessness at achieving anything other than self-promotion and enrichment is exposed: They call for ratcheting up citizen disarmament, and pass stupid new edicts that will have zero effect on predators incubated, sustained and made inevitable by a wealth redistribution-dependent constituency.  [More]

If they don't know what else to do, or if they don't want people looking too closely at them, "progressive" politicians have learned all they have to do is scream "Gun!"