A BIG hand for LPD

My favorite store was robbed a couple of nights ago. I happened to go there the following morning. A Lincoln Police car was parked just outside the front door and an officer had the gate pulled down a little as he stood on a ladder dusting the gate for prints. Not good.

My friend Travis the shoe guy filled me in with as much as he knew. There was a robbery during the night. The thieves came through the front door after breaking one of them. The got the big garage door metal protective gate up somehow. They wanted guns and got plenty of them--84 according to news reports.

Most of the guns were handguns. But there were some military style assault rifles. That is a lot of firepower in the wrong hands and these were the wrong hands. How could they get away with such a crime at a big mall like South Point?

For one thing, there was no security. The crime happened around 2:00am and security stops at 1:00am. I know, dumb. The Sheels cameras produced dark film. Double dumb. In this day, motion detectors should have lit that place up like Christmas. Plus, some security companies offer a service that also records and alerts security to things like breaking glass. The store and the mall both get a big F. They owe themselves and us the best security, especially when it comes to guns.

My thought was the guns were long gone to some other place. But less than 24 hours later, Lincoln Police Swat unit recovered 30 of them and made three arrests. They were local gang members. Bravo LPD. That's very impressive considering what you had to work with.

Perhaps they will get the rest of them soon--both guns and thieves. If not, the "hood" just got a whole lot more dangerous.

Some folks will be hollering for more gun laws and that makes me yawn. If you want to stop gun violence, register ammunition. If you come up on a records check or a mental health check, no bullets for you.

After all, how dangerous is a gun without bullets? And, old guns and stolen guns now have new rules to play under.

But that debate may never come. Until then, we have to rely on law enforcement to keep us safe and last night, Lincoln Police did a hell of a great job!