Posted on 12/21/2013 2:00:28 PM PST by jimbo123
Three people died and at least three others suffered gunshot wounds as a wave of pre-Christmas carnage swept the city on Friday night and Saturday morning, authorities said.
The violence kicked off in the Bronx around 7:30 p.m. when 19-year-old Edward Melina was killed by a gunshot wound to his torso.
Melina was shot in a dispute that unfolded on East Tremont Avenue near Crotona Avenue. He was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital but could not be saved.
The bloodshed continued in Brownsville, Brooklyn when police found a 36-year-old man shot to death at the Kingsborough houses at around 2 a.m., cops said.
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Strict gun laws, so no way any of this really happened. </sarc>
Impossible—isn’t New York a gun free zone?
This is a bunch of Brabra Streisand. NYC has the toughest gun laws in the nation, the cops are tough and they’ve got a Commie mayor who doesn’t allow citizens to own weaponry.
In Chicago, those numbers would be called the warm up lap.
Not pre-Kwanzaa?
You know that there were many, many criminals that wanted to shoot someone and thought, "I better not. That would be breaking the gun laws of NYC. What was I thinking." < /sarcasm-thick-as-molasses >
The De Blasio Effect begins to kick in already.
Fiction fiction fiction. Guns are highly illegal in NYC.
DeBlasio’s New New York.
Christmas Mayhem, I must have missed that part
growing up. Maybe it’s an urban tradition?
Yep. NYC returning back to the Dinkins era.
gun control laws get more strict, crime goes up. totally predictable
Carnage:
1.the killing of a large number of people.
synonyms: slaughter, massacre, mass murder, butchery, bloodbath,
3 people, carnage does not make. NYC 8.337 MILLION.
STOP THE HYPE!!!
It was out of towners. No one in new York has a gun.
Nothing like a holly, jolly Christmas!
Only 3 so far? All that gun control is working wonders. Of course, there’s still 3 days to go. And then New Year’s.
NOW I remember, it’s a part of Festivus, comes under
the Feats of Strength...
Glad I left 26yrs ago.
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