“Enough Is Enough” is the name John Cramsey chose for his drug-abuse rescue group. Having suffered the loss of his 20-year-old daughter to a heroin overdose, Cramsey and a group of concerned friends banded together and committed to take action against heroin abuse.
Unfortunately for Cramsey, the group disbanded after he and two accomplices were arrested in the midst of a “rescue mission.” The threesome was armed with an assault rifle, 12-gauge shotgun, and five pistols, but it was likely their choice of vehicle that caught the attention of the NYPD.
Cramsey’s lifted, zombie-defense-force themed Dodge Ram is hard to miss, and it had a cracked windshield.
Police explain that the mission’s objective was to rescue a 16-year-old heroin-addicted female held against her will by drug dealers in Brooklyn. Also worth noting is the fact that police identified Cramsey and his two passengers as heavy heroin users themselves.
With almost 50 percent of high school students using some form of addictive substance, Cramsey certainly is not the only parent disturbed at the state of things. He may be the most extreme, though.
Among the weapons cache loaded into his Ram, police discovered ammo boxes adorned with “shoot your local heroin dealer.”
Whether Cramsey and friends would have actually resorted to violence, we’ll never know, but the idea of gun-toting heroin addicts bringing war on one another Mad Max style is scary enough unrealized.
One of the people travelling with Cramsey was 29-year-old Kimberly Walker, mother of an 8-year-old. Walker’s mother describes her as having never even fired a gun. Had Cramsey and Walker made it to their destination, Walker’s first time firing a gun could have come while taking fire. It could never have come at all.
It’s fun to watch movies where the good guys saddle up and bring justice to those who’ve wronged them.
Cramsey’s posse saw themselves as doing exactly that, but in reality, their actions placed themselves and many more in danger. Rather than saving a life, several could have been lost in the gun crime of the century.
In a nation with working gun control, this situation simply does not happen. It is shocking to think that after witnessing the nation’s deadliest mass shooting on record this month in Orlando, there are still examples of citizens arming themselves with assault weapons, convinced they are going to “make a difference.”
Reality is not the movies, and for Cramsey to think it’s acceptable that he murders drug dealers to “make a difference,” when doing so does nothing for either the 16-year-old he set out to rescue, or his late daughter, is absurd.
Rationalized gun violence is still gun violence.
The ease with which individuals acquire assault weapons like Cramsey’s, and those used at Sandy Hook, San Bernardino, and other tragic incidents means that rationalized murder can become mass murder in a matter of seconds.
It’s true that making such weapons illegal won’t keep them from falling into the wrong hands, but the current state of things almost ensures that they will.
Not everyone who uses heroin dies, but in 2014 there were more than 11,000 deaths attributed to heroin overdose, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
The government spent trillions fighting drug cartels to avoid more deaths. The same year, nearly 13,000 people were killed by gun crimes and violence, and another 23,000 were injured.
Is a sit-in the best we can do? Enough is enough.
Watch this video for more information about Cramsey and his gun crime-laden, vigilante rescue
Featured Image: Screenshot Via Enough Is Enough Facebook post.
