Posted on 06/03/2019 8:25:39 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
BALTIMORE - Baltimore’s mayor believes he has a solution to solving some of the violence in the city: Public boxing matches.
After eight shootings and 11 stabbing incidents in the city over the weekend, Mayor Jack Young said he is trying to find ways to ease tensions in the city.
"If they want to really settle them, we can have them down at the civic center, put a boxing ring up and let them go and box it out,” Young told WBAL. “Those kinds of things, you know, and the best man wins and the beef should be over. Those are some of the things I'm thinking about.”
Young and City States Attorney Marilyn Mosby attended a recent National Gun Violence Awareness Day event and left with several ideas.
"Gun violence has been plaguing this city for the last 10 years. The murder rate in this city and non-fatal shootings have increased,” Young told WBAL. “I'm not happy with it and neither should the citizens of Baltimore," Young said.
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Bread and circuses.
Constitutional COncealed Carry will END Street Violence
Midnight basketball wearing mittens?
Didn’t Clinton already try this with Midnight Basketball?
How’d that work out?
“Those kinds of things, you know, and the best man wins and the beef should be over. Those are some of the things I’m thinking about.”
Mayor, you are lost....Way behind....This isn’t 1950....
The Grandson of Midnight Basketball
Remember that?
Beat me by 12 seconds, you dog ;-)
What are you going to do about the shootings in the audience, you drooling moron?
Fight Club
Encumbering one’s trigger finger with a boxing glove is a sure to to encourage more violent yute spree shootings.
Boxing has been around for a while.
He’s naive to think it will change more than a few but it’s not the coliseum.
It won’t be in the middle of the street if you read it. It will be at the civic center.
And NO, constitutional carry won’t do SH.T in these neighborhoods and is an absurd answer.
These are not good neighborhoods where the few bad guys will be swayed by carry to be more careful.
MANY are bad and most felons do have guns.
Starting with getting married and being stable financially and emotionally before having a baby is the only thing that would help and that’s not gonna happen.
Guess promoting family, faith, a good education and condemning RAP music didn’t make the list.
No, lets organize the violence.
Let’s get two rival gangs in the same room to watch two from each fight.
That’s not going to lead to a gang fight that spills outside where each side has weapons stashed in there cars.
I think public hangings would also cut gun crime.
Hmmm. 10 years ago “violence” got out of control. Right about the time that Marxist piece of sh!t hussein got elected. Wasn’t he supposed to be the great uniter?
What are you going to do about a fighter that takes a dive and costs those that bet on him a lot of money?
I support this idea. Not because it will solve anything - it won’t - but because watching losers punch each other in the face for no money is funny.
What a moron. What retard would bring fists to a gunfight?
So stupid.....the thugs aren’t looking for a fair fight. They get their kicks beating and robbing old ladies and killing innocent people on the street.
Violence (gun) is not taking place because the parties can’t box. It’s taking place because the two parties don’t want to duke it out. There may be unequal physical size. They may simply want to kill from a distance.
Boxing publically is not going to end gun violence.
It would probably lead to more.
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