As predictable as the rising sun:
A wave of violence swept New York City over the weekend as 21 people were shot, four of them fatally, authorities said Monday.
The shootings, which included the separate woundings of 10- and 12-year-old boys, made for the third weekend in June that at least a dozen people were shot, police said. In the last week of June, 35 people were shot, down from 39 gunshot victims the same week a year ago, according to New York Police Department statistics. A breakdown between those killed and those wounded was not immediately available.
This year, 611 people have been shot in the city compared with 554 for the same period last year.
Thank Goodness that ironically named SAFE act is keeping all those people “safe”.
I thought states and cities with higher Gun Control had lower “Gun Death”. Isn’t that why they passed those laws?
The really sad thing is when anti-gun activists push more of this crap they talk about the high gun violence rate of the United States. OK the US isn’t all that bad, but they have their magical little sorting hat that picks which nations are “Third World” and what nations are applicable. Still the sad fact is that in places with lower gun control there are a lot less dead bodies, but the failure of states and cities with high gun control is rolled in as if it’s relevant.
Thanks, I’m for REPEALING crappy laws, not adding them on!
Mayor DeBlasio’s policies will bring back the glory days of 1970’s New York.
“Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don’t mind the maggots,”
The NYC Metro area has gun people. My sister dated a gunnie (long guns) when she lived in the City, and, later Yonkers, back in the 1960s and ’70s. Is there a way for pro-gun people there to organize around some model legislation? Pro-gun legislation seems to me civil liberties, property rights, and civic empowerment legislation.