Posted on 01/04/2016 10:26:38 AM PST by Zakeet
Blood was shed in Baltimore at an unprecedented pace in 2015, with mostly young, black men shot to death in a near-daily crush of violence.
On a per-capita basis, the year was the deadliest ever in the city. The year's tally of 344 homicides was second only to the record 353 in 1993, when Baltimore had about 100,000 more residents.
The killings were on pace with recent years in the early months of 2015 but skyrocketed after the unrest and rioting of late April. In five of the next eight months, killings topped 30 or 40 a month.
Nearly 90 percent of the year's homicides were the result of shootings, renewing calls for new gun laws. Counting nonfatal shootings, gun violence was up more than 75 percent compared to last year, with more than 900 people shot.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
They need more gun laws ... more space to destroy ... more CVS freebies ... and much less police!
I’m havin’ a day ja voo voo.
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1993 was the height of the crack cocaine wars, when gangs killed over territorial monopolies.
The administration doesn’t care, as long as there is no handy Whitey around to blame.
By God, Obama will fix the problem. All he has to do is take the guns for Arizonians and Mississippians. That will bring Baltimore’s murder rate down fast.
or something.
Thank god my family left that kind of hellhole before I was born, TBH I think there is nothing more we can do, they got themselves in this mess, they need to get out of it themselves, the worst thing they did was buy into the progressives and the great society, after that, its history.
No, it’s the Tea Party! No, wait, DT!!!
Nooooo - it was Boooooooooooosh!!
How can this be?
Maryland passed one of the most restrictive gun control laws in the country effective 1 Oct. 2013. The lions would lay down with the lambs. Just ask Martin O’Malley. It was his baby.
Must be a misprint. /s
Yes...my plan is working perfectly.
Democrat mayor, democrat city council, democrat police, democrat victims. NOT OUR PROBLEM.
That said a few hundred more pages of gun control laws will gin up the vote and assure people democrats are ‘doing something’...
Democrat mayor, democrat city council, democrat police, democrat victims. NOT OUR PROBLEM.
That said a few hundred more pages of gun control laws will gin up the vote and assure the black community that democrats are ‘doing something’...
How many white people KILLED Blacks...? How many whites killed whites? Asians? Pacific Islanders?
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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