Hartford Connecticut, The Modern-day Wild West?

This past weekend Hartford reached the dubious milestone of 100 shooting victims so far this year.

One dead and six injured following a parade in Hartford's North End on Saturday. See 1 Dead, 6 Injured in Hartford shootings

In response a teen curfew will start on Thursday with penalties for teens under 18 found on the streets of Dodge, um Hartford, after 9 pm. Not surprisingly our illustrious friend of criminals, the ACLU, is complaining that this curfew is unfair to all the young upstanding members of the community that roam the streets after 9 pm. See ACLU angered by Hartford's planned teen curfew imposed after shootings leave 1 dead, 6 wounded

If you listen to the response of Eziekel Robert's regarding the death of her 21 year-old son you get an understanding of the problem:

"He wasn't a bad kid. OK, he might have got into the wrong crowd, hung with the wrong people," she said. "But ain't none of them perfect. My son, he was bad in his way, too. But he wasn't the baddest."

According to the Courant, Ezekiel Roberts was found guilty on March 3 of accessory to first-degree assault in the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Hiram David Colon in East Hartford in 2006, court records show. Roberts was one of six who played a role in the stabbing, but police could not determine who delivered the fatal wound.And Ezekiel Roberts had been arrested four times this summer already — twice for criminal trespass, once for possessing a small amount of marijuana, and once for violating his probation.

It is understandable that a mother would be in grief over the loss of her son. However, it is disconcerting that she doesn't see accessory to murder and continued incidents of lawlessness as being all that bad. This is clearly a problem.

It is also troubling that Eziekel fathered a child at 17. I can only hope that that child has been placed with a decent family so that he has a chance of a future as opposed to many of the children being brought into this violent environment by lawless gangbangers and drug addicts. The cards are stacked 999 to 1 against them as long as they live among criminals.

This behavior is totally unacceptable in American society. It is not a "culture" it is lawlessness. If we need more prisons to handle the mass inflow of low lifes then we should build them. I'm sure we can find a couple of available large, (northern) islands to house the criminals.