A Capitol Idea...

We've known for some time that our more Liberal friends and neighbors are dead-set against capital punishment.  You know, frying some perp for committing murder or mayhem.  

An eye for an eye, and all that.

However, we're getting to the place that only "red" states are in favor or getting ultimate payback.  The others, those run by Democrat governors, want to give murderers a parole and a nice blankie and a season's pass to D-Land.  Especially those in such Progressive enclaves as Taxifornia, Oregone and Illi-no-way.  Perhaps also giving them a good used car and a nice place to live would prove helpful.  Truly, the debate over how to deal with death row felons seriously divides our lawmakers as never before.

Which gives me, The Chuckmeister, your Scribe Without Portfolio, an idea.  I'd suggest we kill two perps with one "move," so to speak.  Simply relocate all felons facing the death penalty from your local prisons...to the Southside of Chicago!

And then give them a hunting knife, a compass, a map out of town, and our very best wishes.  Sort of like the Swartzenwhoozits movie, "Running Man," if you'll recall.  And if they make it to the City Limits, they're home Scot free!

But probably not.

And BTW, just exactly who was "Scot?"

Anyway, we know that innocent people are shot, with a gun, one of those scary firearms, doncha' know, about 77 times each weekend in Chicago.  And we know that an average of about 11 folks die.  Each weekend!  Whew!  That's a pretty big number, doncha' think?  Chicago residents suffered a total of 4,516 shootings and 763 deaths in 2020.  From gunfire.  Sure to break all records for firearm violence in 2020.  In a city where guns are pretty much illegal and buying one takes an act of Congress.*   And just for the record, killings are up 236 over 2019, so they just have to be doing something...wrong.  

Thus, fellow Pilgrims, we can assume that those rambling around Chicago's Southside stand a mucho larger chance of dying from a stray bullet...or one not-so-stray...than their Northside neighbors.  Or their Eastside neighbors.  Or pretty much any other neighbors, anywhere in America.

So knowing that folks in the Southside are in danger, and that sending anyone else there would put them in danger as well, sort of like Mayor Cuomo sending his aged senior citizens from hospitals back to NYC nursing homes to die, how about we just stop trying to get death penalty cases through bleeding heart juries, and simply send them to where there's a pretty good chance their heart will be bleeding within a matter of days?

Assuming the NYC nursing homes aren't taking new "guests," that is?

Chicago's Southside residents have been dying in droves from errant gunfire for years.  But the so-called "MainStreamMedia" chooses not to talk about it.  Why?  Most likely because the victims are Black, and Black folks aren't all that important.  You can bet if these killings were occurring in any White enclave, anywhere, the backlash to stop them would be enormous!  

But they're Black, so no big deal.  And since there's already a "killing field" happening every weekend in Chicago, why not take advantage by simply adding a few murderers and rapists and kidnappers to the mix?  I say this is an idea whose time has come?   

If you agree, fellow Pilgrims, be sure to call and write your local elected weenie and recommend they send all their felons with death sentences to Chicago post-haste.  Hey, we might even televise the action, like Richard Whazizzname did for Aaaanold, and make a little money off the exercise.  Pay-per-view, doncha' know...

I love it when a plan comes together...

*  (Literally; it took even more than an act of Congress.  It took a vote by the Supreme Court.   McDonald v. City of Chicago, 2010.  Look it up.).