Dear Sane America,
Yesterday in Times Square, Pamela Cisneros, 49, of Queens, treated Seventh Avenue like an all-you-can-stab buffet. She looked like an over-stuffed burrito waddling around, pulled t... View MoreDear Sane America,
Yesterday in Times Square, Pamela Cisneros, 49, of Queens, treated Seventh Avenue like an all-you-can-stab buffet. She looked like an over-stuffed burrito waddling around, pulled two kitchen knives out of a Target bag, and in about twenty seconds stabbed a 68-year-old man and then Erin Piacenti, 32. Erin died. The man lived. Cisneros then waddled toward police with both knives still in her hands, ignored every order to drop them, announced sheâd rather kill the officers, shrugged off the tasers, and kept coming.
So they shot her.
And now, this is the part that apparently requires a think-piece... we never have to worry about her stabbing anyone else. Ever. See how easy that is? One afternoon of random murder in the middle of the most filmed intersection on the planet, a four-minute conversation that went nowhere, and then the problem is permanently solved. No ankle monitor. No âsheâs struggling with her mental healthâ press conference six months later after the next victim.
Just done.
Now imagine, just imagine... if we treated the rest of them the same way. Imagine we actually locked these people up when they stab strangers, or swing knives at cops, or keep proving they cannot be left around other human beings. Imagine we didnât release them because the jail is âovercrowdedâ or because a judge thought a stern talking-to plus a bus token would do the trick. Imagine that when someone is in the middle of killing people in public and refuses to stop, we sometimes just kill them instead of hoping the taser works this time.
The results would be almost comically simple.
Fewer people would get stabbed in Times Square. Fewer families would be identifying bodies at Bellevue. Tourists could walk past the ball-drop building without wondering whether the next person with a shopping bag is about to start a collection. Repeat offenders would spend their time in cells instead of back on the street collecting new victims.
And the ones who keep coming at police with weapons after theyâve already drawn blood would, occasionally, not get a second chance. It would be boring, really. No more âunprovoked double stabbingâ headlines every other month. No more body-cam footage of officers begging someone to drop the knife while civilians scatter. Just a lot of dangerous people sitting in prison, and a much smaller number of them no longer breathing because they chose to keep attacking after they were told to stop.
Apparently thatâs the controversial part.
Not the part where a woman is dead on the sidewalk because someone decided other peopleâs lives were optional. The controversial part is the idea that we might actually remove the people who keep doing it.
Cisneros doesnât get to stab anyone else.
Thatâs the whole point. It wasnât complicated. It wasnât a failure of social services in that moment. It was a woman who looked like an over-stuffed burrito waddling around Times Square with two knives after sheâd already killed someone. They stopped her the only way left. See how easy that is when you stop pretending the alternative is compassion?
Credit: Glenn Reib
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PLAYING THE NAME GAME
Presidents have been playing the name game for years. The only new development is that Democrats and a few official Canadians are acting like this is the first time anyone ever ... View MorePLAYING THE NAME GAME
Presidents have been playing the name game for years. The only new development is that Democrats and a few official Canadians are acting like this is the first time anyone ever picked up a pen.
Obama and Biden renamed plenty of things. The biggest one was taking Mount McKinley and turning it into Denali. Trump put McKinley back on the mountain. He also renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Now Lake Ontario has officially become Lake America on the U.S. side.
Funny how the outrage only shows up when the new name has the word America in it. The truth is simpler. Names change. Maps change. Politicians love a good rebrand. Trump just happens to enjoy doing it out loud, with a marker, and a grin. Trump is the master troll.
If the other side can rename a mountain, they can survive a gulf and a lake.
â The GrrrTeam
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The first clue is in the angle of the bows. The arcs of rainbows are always centred on the antisolar point, which, from Sandyâs perspective, is in the exact opposite direction from the Sun. Sandyâs bows are centred on a point not far below the horizon, so the Sun behind her must have been only just above it. The second clue that the Sun was low in the sky comes from the colours of the rainbows â or, rather, the lack of them. The bows show no blues and greens, and thatâs because they were formed by the golden evening rays of the setting Sun. These colours had been largely filtered from the sunlight during its long passage through the low atmosphere, and so they were missing from the rainbows it formed. âCabin crew, please prepare for landing.â
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