Steve_Zissou
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I remember hearing something somewhere about 13 also being 50, but I can't, for the life of me, figure out what they actually meant by it...
Can somebody fill me in on what the underlying issues are? The media says there are too many guns, that’s not true?
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https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance
You can see the crime stats at this site but it doesn’t get updated until Monday and Twitter says a 16 yr old male was murdered yesterday
Police say on Wednesday, April 17, Barry Holmes, 57, of Temple Hills, was shot after asking a pedestrian not to step on freshly laid asphalt at around 4:30 p.m. in the 5100 block of Southern Avenue.
Sources familiar with the investigation say a man and a woman were pushing an empty stroller while attempting to cross Southern Avenue from the Prince George’s County side to the D.C. side when Holmes asked them not to cross.
According to sources, the man told Holmes he was going to kill him and pulled a handgun from what appeared to be a diaper bag.
Holmes – then fearing for his life – began to run north on Southern Avenue before tiring and stopping. That’s when the gunman walked up to him and fired one round into his chest.
When officers arrived at the scene, police say they found Holmes suffering from a gunshot wound. He was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Just a couple ideas...
Too many guns in the hands of prohibited persons
Refusal to prosecute said felons for gun crimes
Refusal to prosecute straw purchasers
Implementing the Near Act
Disbandment of the vice squads
Councilpersons more concerned with protecting criminals than victims
But the fact is virtually all the violence in today's society is done by a tiny group of repeat criminals. It is not this idiotic term of "gun violence" or "knife violence"-- it is "criminal violence."
Hit the nail on the head there. Guns don't commit crimes - criminals do. And they'll do it with whatever tools they have. Take guns away, and they'll do it with something else. The key to reducing crime is dealing with the criminals, but the media and government seem happier to blame "scary, evil" guns. Funny, they don't call for a ban on knives when someone gets stabbed. You don't hear stories about "fist violence" when someone gets beaten. Dems need to wake up.
Baltimore it is 90% of murder perps have one arrest, and over 80% a felony or ten arrests.According to Chief Newsham the average person caught for a gun crime has 9-10 previous arrests.
And 45% are under some sort of supervision for a previous gun violation.
Absurd.
Can somebody fill me in on what the underlying issues are? The media says there are too many guns, that’s not true?
Baltimore it is 90% of murder perps have one arrest, and over 80% a felony or ten arrests.
This is why the "prison reform" groups, which lobbying groups for criminal lawyers keep claiming we need to reduce prison populations. They know it causes more crime and gives them more business.
They yammer about people arrested for carrying personal use amounts of marijuana, when the data shows that is not even 0.003% of people in prison.
Lowering actual time served for serious crime increases murder rates.