Stolen in its entirety from
NRO's The Corner is this gem from Mark Steyn:
A
mentally disturbed man is wandering through traffic outside New York’s
Port Authority Bus Terminal. Naturally, the NYPD open fire. They miss
the guy. However, the sidewalks being full of people, they manage to hit
two female pedestrians, one of them already using a walker, which comes
in handy when the coppers shoot you in the leg.
So the DA charges the guy with assaulting the women:
“The defendant is the one that created the situation that injured
innocent bystanders,” said an assistant district attorney, Shannon
Lucey.
Ah, yes: the “situation” injured the innocent bystanders. If you outlaw guns, only situations will have guns.
The defendant is looking at 25 years in jail for the crime of
provoking law enforcement into shooting random citizens. If this flies
in New York, then there is no law.
This is just the latest in the even growing trend whereby just about anything you do can be construed as a crime. The rush to criminalize ordinary behavior is one more example of the ever-expanding reach of The State to control and punish the citizenry.
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