Enough is enough ...

The murder of a random man by three teens who were “bored.”

The fatal shooting of a baby in a stroller by a teen robbing the baby’s mother.

The beating death of an 88-year-old WWII vet outside a VFW club by two teens robbing him.

All this against the 50^th anniversary of Dr. King’s “I have a dream” speech in Washington, D.C.

In that speech, Dr. King said he dreamed of a day when people would “not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” 

Well it’s long past time to do just that.

Let’s just drop all the pretense and political correctness and judge everyone by what they do, not why, how they were raised, their age or their race.  When you pull out a gun and kill someone who is not a threat to you, or beat a defenseless person to death, I don’t really care to know anything more about you.  Your sob story or perverted rationale is irrelevant to me, and certainly to your victim. 

You are simply a murderer.  You are someone who should be permanently removed from society, and better yet, from breathing the same oxygen as the rest of us.  If you’re old enough and callous enough to commit a murder, you’re old enough to pay for it with your own life.   

I’ve had enough of all the excuses.  I’m fed up with the revolving door on teen murderers getting a break because they are only 16, or poor, or stupid, or come from a broken home.  They crossed one of the few bright lines in our society, perhaps one of the earliest of all taboos, and knew they were doing it when they killed someone. 

These aren’t youthful mistakes; these are cold, calculated murders that send a chill up the spines of decent people everywhere. 

Breaking a window with an errant baseball is a mistake; you can always replace a window.  But killing someone you don’t know with a gun or by beating them to death in the commission of a crime or for sport?  That’s not a mistake.  You can’t replace the life you took, and frankly there’s no amount of counseling or “rehab” in juvie or real prison that will bring that life back. 

We need to treat teens who murder like a virus.  Which is what they are.  We need to stop them before they become cultural idols and infect others.  And we need to stop them before they reproduce.   

Most of all, we need to step up to the problem and ignore the handwringing and certain global outrage when we execute a few of these monsters.  Which we should do in an expedited fashion.

After all, “justice too long delayed is justice denied,” again according to Dr. King. 

In the meantime, we’ll have to listen to all the BS.  I’ve had my fill. 

I thought my head would explode when the mother of one of the teens who killed the Australian jogger blamed the “community” for the murder.  Apparently, if we’d kept her kid more entertained this might not have happened.  It’s our job to keep potential teenage killers busy so they don’t go around and shoot innocent people, right? 

I know we’ll hear the excuse for the teen that shot a baby between the eyes in front of its mother that she refused to give up her purse.  I mean, he gave her every opportunity to do the right thing – he threatened her, he threatened her baby, he even shot the mother in the leg and still she wouldn’t give it up.  She didn’t leave him any other choice but to kill her baby.   Wait for it …

I can’t imagine what the excuse will be for the teens that beat the 88-year-old vet to death while he was sitting in his car.  But rest assured there will be one.    

Now, all of these crimes involved black teens, something you probably already knew from seeing pictures on TV or online.  Less covered – except for the jogger – was that all the victims were white.   

Some people – not the black community or most of the media of course – have suggested these should be treated as hate crimes.  For the record, I’ve never been a fan of hate crimes legislation.  These laws have always appeared redundant and silly to me and more a comment on political correctness run amuck than anything else. 

Plus, they seem to be applied arbitrarily, which is not how equal protection under the law is supposed to work.   How does beating up someone because of their race, religion, gender or sexual preference make that beating somehow worse?  If you kill someone for one of those same reasons does that make that murder somehow more noteworthy than any other murder? 

As for arbitrary:  How is it that a black person killing a white person is just a regular crime, but a black person killed by a white person is automatically considered a potential hate crime? 

Trust me, if the jogger had been black and the three teens that shot him in the back were all white don’t you think Jesse and Al would be screaming racism?   If the white woman and child who were shot had been black and the shooter – who had shot someone else in a robbery 10 days earlier – had been white, what do you think they would have had to say?  And if the 88-year-old vet had been black and the two teens who beat him to death had been white ….

Well, you can bet Eric Holder and Obama would be on TV promising the full weight of the Federal government to investigate.  They wouldn’t give a damn about the age of the perpetrators.   

Instead, what do we hear?  Crickets. 

So much for “not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” 

The excuses are over.  Unequal treatment under the law cannot be tolerated.  And teens of any race who commit murder should be tried as adults and if convicted executed as adults would be.

Enough is enough.