Time to Erect a Victims of Crime Memorial on the National Mall
7th April 2012
Steve Sailer has one of those excellent ideas that won’t go anywhere.
Far more people have lost loved ones to crime over the decades, and they deserve a serious memorial on the National Mall to commemorate their tragedies. We also have a Victims of Communism Memorial, a Holocaust Museum, and and increasing number of ethnic victim remembrance sites under the names of museums. It’s time for a tasteful, somber memorial to all the people whose losses disappear down the memory hole because their loved ones were random citizens brutalized by criminals.
Of course, the reason it won’t go anywhere is that it will be a constant reproach to those who are ultimately responsible for those deaths, those whose responsibility it was to protect those innocent victims but who, through venality or incompetence or ambition, decided that they had more important fish to fry.
Yeah, Eric Holder, I’m looking at you.