Saturday, April 24, 2010

Known as "Operation Drop in the Bucket"

"Undercover cop removes more than 150 illegal guns from Brooklyn's streets in 'Operation Phoenix'" 


Although statistics are sparse, it's estimated that there are roughly 2 million illegal handguns circulating in New York City (Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island (aka "and another borough I can't remember")). To remove "more than 150" (153 to be precise) means that this guy singlehandedly removed 0.00765% of the estimated illegal handguns.

This is hardly newsworthy. It reminds me of a government operation intended to "wipe out" illegal marijuana farms across the U.S. After four years of covert operations and millions of taxpayers' dollars, they reported that they had found and destroyed 150,000 pot plants and deemed the operation a success. Of course, if you do the math, that's about an acre of pot plants.

I guess Liberals bank on the fact that nobody will do the math. Keep in mind that these are the same people who are responsible for the quality of education in our public schools.

From the Daily News.

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