Headline reads: “More gun violence shakes a worried city”, but read the story:
More violence erupted early Sunday: In four drive-by shootings in South Seattle, gunmen fired more than 60 rounds, riddling four houses and several cars with bullets. Miraculously, no one was hit; a teenage girl dived to her bedroom floor to avoid being shot.
While gang detectives are involved in several of the investigations, and police say at least one suspect is an admitted gang member, detectives do not know what role gang tensions may have played in the violence….After Thursday’s Central Area killing of Justin Ferrari, a 43-year-old father of two, Seattle police dispatched additional patrol officers, along with teams of officers drawn from the department’s SWAT and Anti-Crime teams, to patrol high-crime areas in the East, West and South precincts…He was waiting to cross Broad Street when he heard two gunshots. He looked down and saw blood gushing from his right leg….The suspect was chased down by officers and arrested in the Seattle Center House.
Officers said he told them he is a gang member from the Kent area. He was shooting at another man, also a gang member, who had hit him on the head with a skateboard, according to police. Officers recovered a handgun and the shooting suspect was booked into the King County Jail on investigation of assault.
The list goes on. But we have arrested gang members, drive-by shootings, gang confrontations, and police patrols in the “high crime neighborhoods”. Is this “Gun Violence” or is it “Gang Violence”?
To be anti-gun means that if you leave the gangs alone but chase after guns (in the hands of lawful citizens of course, because going after criminal’s guns would be dangerous), it would save lives and stop crime.
Good luck with that!
Gangs DO get guns, lawful or otherwise… and you’re right that would be profiling and RACIST… sigh
there are times and areas where prudent people don’t travel. As a geek, formerly working in Pioneer square, that was a problem. Servers don’t always respect the idea that the state mandated bar closing time isn’t a good time to page for humans. Customers don’t always appreciate local time zones… and with the attitude expressed in local media I expect criminal threat to widen (geographically) and deepen in terms of actual threat. Now, in hard times I’m not going to let that keep me from earning a living (knock on wood, my current long term employment from home looks secure) but that wouldn’t even be a consideration if we lived in a society that valued individual liberty properly.
“Anti-Crime teams”
Aren’t these teams otherwise known as the police? Or do the police do other things that are not anti-crime?
Duh! Police mostly write traffic citations…and here in Massachusetts direct traffic around construction sites. None of which are crimes.
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