Posted on 05/21/2014 5:30:43 AM PDT by rellimpank
Milwaukee Ald. Ashanti Hamilton got to the heart of the matter at a community meeting on the north side Monday when he said, "We all have a role to play in the condition of the city. Ninety percent of the work doesn't cost money. It's a change in the mind-set of the people who live right here." Of course, a few more police on the streets also can help.
Hamilton spoke at a meeting of the Black Male Achievement Advisory Committee, but that meeting — with more than 100 people in attendance — turned into a community forum on violence in the wake of recent shootings, including the wounding of an 11-year-old girl last week and a triple shooting Sunday that resulted in the deaths of two men. The two were killed on Ceasefire Sabbath, which capped off Ceasefire Week, an effort to address gun violence in Milwaukee. The shootings showed just how important it is to keep sending the message on gun violence.
Hamilton was right to emphasize the importance of a community effort against gun violence. As long as young men (and women) think that guns are an acceptable way of settling disputes and as long as the community that surrounds them supports that kind of thinking, curbing violence in the city will be difficult. Changing those attitudes is undoubtedly tough, but parents and community leaders need to keep hammering away.
At the same time, more police officers in neighorhoods where they're needed, more jobs, laws that make it more difficult for criminals to obtain guns and more active engagement by city leaders are also needed.
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I would laugh...but it really isn't funny. We really are going to have to divide this country. The only criteria I can think of that would separate the libs and general dumba$$e$ from normal cogent thinking people would be a test with such questions as..."If on Ceasefire Sabbath, which caps off Ceasefire Week, two men are shot to death and an 11 year old girl is hit by a bullet: a. The gun should have had a trigger lock. b. The victims did not recognize the Sabbath. c. Stupid names or slogans don;t prevent anything. d. It was George Bush's fault.
Only the people who pick "c" can be part of the new free country!
“Black Male Achievement Advisory Committee”....
Must be a racist group.
Every time I see that phrase I know that the article or editorial disguised as news will have an anti-gun slant.
Did the word “father” appear anywhere in the article?
I don’t know about that if the Alderman’s words are sincere and people pick up on it:
“....Ninety percent of the work doesn’t cost money. It’s a change in the mind-set of the people who live right here.”
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I truly have no knowledge of Milwaukee, but I suspect that if even just half of the people in the troubled neighborhoods heeded these words change for the better could occur.
Exactly - it seems anthropomorphizing should have been in the Alinsky Rules for Radicals since that crowd uses it to mold public opinion.
Maybe if you vote democrat more things will get better. It has worket out sowell these many years.
The what?
For just a relatively small amount of $10,000, they could buy a lot of $150 .22LR pistols and $10 boxes of ammo, to distribute to those without a felon in the house and who want a gun. The guns could even be engraved so that they can easily be associated with their legal owner.
Overnight, their neighborhood would be a lot safer for perhaps a decade or more, and for a fraction of just one years’ pay for a rookie police officer.
Every week there’s some sort of candlelight vigil or event to “stop the violence” in black communities across the country. And every year the homicide numbers pile up. Which leads to the question: do these anti-violence actions do anything? Doesn’t look like it to me.
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