That's horrific! A 3 year old baby killed, 2 siblings and mom traumatized and faced with unimaginable loss! And then hours later, more death and injury of kids! I can't imagine the grief the families must be experiencing. How many other kids are affected by what happened. And is this a case of kids killing kids? We need to find a way to get guns out of the hands of people who intend to harm. And, we need to look upstream and take the required steps. How to do these things needs a lot more funding, analysis, legislation, and action. I just don't understand why it's not happening. There's too much talk and not enough action. We want to pretend we're a country that cares about life and kids, but our actions don't demonstrate we do. We need radical change, I think, to change this awful, violent trend. We need a leader committed to substantive change. So far, I haven't seen one.
The fight for better gun control is a uphill battle because of the Republican Party.Combined with all the other ingredients, poverty etc easy access to guns is a deadly ingredient.Also the community has to overcome the “snitches get stitches” and the powers to be need to be more supportive of the police in Htfd and make sure they have the resources they need!
Spoken like someone who knows what he's talking about. I don't want to overlook any of this, but what gets lost in the press (we suck at providing context) is an understanding as to how did we get here?
Up until the 6o’s the “Saturday night special’ a cheap revolver holding 5 or 6 billets was the bad guys weapon of choice.Then into the 70’s 80’s as Vietnam wound down the gun manufacturers developed weapons like the AR-15 which was based off a combat weapons platform , like Colt and with the NRAs support marketed it as a sportsman’s weapon and began flooding the market.into the 80’s with the crack epidemic high powered high capacity weapons became the choice of drug gangs thus forcing a internal arms race requiring the police to upgrade to similar weapons as a matter of survival!In spite of all of the evidence to the contrary and the backing of the NRA the Republican Party latched on to a false version of the second amendment and receiving
Large financial support from the NRA had blocked any chances of meaningful gun control.Easy access to guns is one of the greatest problems we have. BTW the gun culture was not born in the Wild West, in fact back in those times there were towns that required you to check your gun with local authorities when you entered town!
hey, I remember working on that Marcelina story with you. one of those ones you don't forget.
I went back and read that story. I don’t want to brag but we did a good job. Remember knocking on their apartment door?
I do. And going to her school and her funeral. too bad another story has to be written about something like this.
The little tree they planted out in front of her school...yeah. That would have been awesome had that been the last story like this.
That's horrific! A 3 year old baby killed, 2 siblings and mom traumatized and faced with unimaginable loss! And then hours later, more death and injury of kids! I can't imagine the grief the families must be experiencing. How many other kids are affected by what happened. And is this a case of kids killing kids? We need to find a way to get guns out of the hands of people who intend to harm. And, we need to look upstream and take the required steps. How to do these things needs a lot more funding, analysis, legislation, and action. I just don't understand why it's not happening. There's too much talk and not enough action. We want to pretend we're a country that cares about life and kids, but our actions don't demonstrate we do. We need radical change, I think, to change this awful, violent trend. We need a leader committed to substantive change. So far, I haven't seen one.
Oh, God! Now this, too. https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/12/us/knoxville-school-shooting/index.html
Oh, God.
The fight for better gun control is a uphill battle because of the Republican Party.Combined with all the other ingredients, poverty etc easy access to guns is a deadly ingredient.Also the community has to overcome the “snitches get stitches” and the powers to be need to be more supportive of the police in Htfd and make sure they have the resources they need!
Spoken like someone who knows what he's talking about. I don't want to overlook any of this, but what gets lost in the press (we suck at providing context) is an understanding as to how did we get here?
Up until the 6o’s the “Saturday night special’ a cheap revolver holding 5 or 6 billets was the bad guys weapon of choice.Then into the 70’s 80’s as Vietnam wound down the gun manufacturers developed weapons like the AR-15 which was based off a combat weapons platform , like Colt and with the NRAs support marketed it as a sportsman’s weapon and began flooding the market.into the 80’s with the crack epidemic high powered high capacity weapons became the choice of drug gangs thus forcing a internal arms race requiring the police to upgrade to similar weapons as a matter of survival!In spite of all of the evidence to the contrary and the backing of the NRA the Republican Party latched on to a false version of the second amendment and receiving
Large financial support from the NRA had blocked any chances of meaningful gun control.Easy access to guns is one of the greatest problems we have. BTW the gun culture was not born in the Wild West, in fact back in those times there were towns that required you to check your gun with local authorities when you entered town!
Is that true? About western towns? Because all I know about that is what Hollywood told me.
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I'm borrowing that post and sharing it here (thanks, Chief): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gun-control-old-west-180968013/?fbclid=IwAR3QqECiKSjeQQVZ34rOhxDXljQ2cwko9VG2NOQUI5waquo7-72yUEEQX6g