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Post by Kelpea on Jul 17, 2015 15:39:15 GMT
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Post by kellybelly77 on Jul 17, 2015 15:46:21 GMT
Those numbers are staggering. And depressing. If you click on the "last 72 hours tab" there are 11 pages worth of shootings across the country in the last 3 days.
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Post by Kelpea on Jul 17, 2015 15:47:38 GMT
I know, kelly.  The stats that strike me the most sobering are the childrens' and teens' deaths. |
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Post by kellybelly77 on Jul 17, 2015 15:50:13 GMT
And, those numbers are only the verified shootings I believe. I scrolled through all 11 pages and didn't find the numerous shootings that have happened in our town in the last couple days.
A 5 yo girl was killed in a drive by shooting about 10 days ago and there have been retaliatory shootings almost every night since then including a young woman being shot in the leg 2 nights ago and then last night rounds of gun fire in the same vicinity.
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Post by back to *pea*ality on Jul 17, 2015 15:54:13 GMT
All I need to do is turn on the tv every morning and listen to the local news. Hardly a night passes in Philadelphia that is not marked by gun violence usually a fatality. Increasingly, the violence is not just a night but during the day too. In June, shots were fired at people attending a block party just around the corner where my son lives. Children/teens are shot on the playground, sitting on the front stoop and even inside their homes where they expect to be safe. Last night a woman was driving in her vehicle and was caught in the crossfire during a drug deal gone bad and was shot in the back.
It is disheartening.
I looked at the website, not sure how accurate it is. I don't see any of the shootings reported in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Los Angeles and a few for Chicago and NYC where you would expect numbers to be higher.
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Post by peano on Jul 17, 2015 16:37:09 GMT
Thanks for posting this.
Also sobering: a FBI agent leaves weapons and other paraphernalia in an unlocked car and they are stolen. If we can't trust LEOs to have a modicum of intelligence, how can we possibly trust Joe Average to handle guns responsibly?
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Post by Kelpea on Jul 17, 2015 16:39:55 GMT
saw that, too, peano. WTH???
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jul 17, 2015 19:00:11 GMT
Thanks for posting this. Also sobering: a FBI agent leaves weapons and other paraphernalia in an unlocked car and they are stolen. If we can't trust LEOs to have a modicum of intelligence, how can we possibly trust Joe Average to handle guns responsibly? ...wait... let me get this straight: you're saying because one FBI agent was an idiot and didn't follow his training (because I'm sure he had a TON of it) that NO ONE else can ever be trusted to handle a gun properly and responsibly?? Isn't that, like, over-generalizing at its most broad, and something no one should really do?? |
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The stats that strike me the most sobering are the childrens' and teens' deaths. 
