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Why is gun violence in Philly ‘exploding’ when solutions exist?
Philly.Com ^ | 09/07/2019 | Erin Arvedlund,

Posted on 09/07/2019 4:44:15 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

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To: rolling_stone

More bad news.


21 posted on 09/07/2019 5:27:17 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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The guns aren’t violent. Some of the people wielding them are.

And most of them have at least one trait in common, as do most of the people who run the city.

(And it isn’t love of what the Liberty Bell stands for and The legacy of Benjamin Franklin.....I’ll leave you to figure out what that main trait is.)


22 posted on 09/07/2019 5:54:58 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Kid Shelleen
Just tell all the people in Philly do turn in their guns. That should stop the problem. /s



23 posted on 09/07/2019 5:56:20 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: Kid Shelleen; Albion Wilde
Data are your friend:

The rate dipped in 2013-2014 and has slowly risen back to around 23. Thus, it is better than during the 1989-1997 period but it has been rising the past few years.

Philadelphia has had people of all sorts of colors, shapes and sizes forever. So why are things worsening just over the past few years? The explanation I read that makes the most sense is the heroin and the opioid epidemic and related gang violence. This isn't a gun problem.

24 posted on 09/07/2019 5:58:46 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: frank ballenger

The really old history books had the whole state of Michigan listed as a ‘fever swamp’ to be avoided at all costs.


25 posted on 09/07/2019 6:10:34 PM PDT by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

When the elite push the notion that all cultures are equally good and valid, you just have to accept that certain cultures that promote violence are just another equally good and valid way of life. So what’s the problem?


26 posted on 09/07/2019 6:15:01 PM PDT by motor_racer (If you don't read the news, you are uninformed. If you read the news, you are misinformed.)
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To: DoodleBob

We Verlaine percent of the population that is minority, on welfare, arrest rates .. independent impacts but they add up.


27 posted on 09/07/2019 6:24:24 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Mittens is the new Juan. Go away mittens)
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To: Beagle8U

Fever swamp....

Too late. I can’t escape.

One U of Michigan book mentioned moose would walk across campus on any given day. 1920s I think. Northern Michigan U. I could believe now.


28 posted on 09/07/2019 6:25:06 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

A leftist asking a question everyone else (except other leftists) already know the answer to.

JoMa


29 posted on 09/07/2019 6:36:03 PM PDT by joma89
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To: Kid Shelleen

A 16 year old is 63 - 67 trimesters of age. There are options.


30 posted on 09/07/2019 6:44:25 PM PDT by Rembrandt (-)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Those darn guns walking the streets shooting people again? Gun violence or human violence? Why are liberals too damned stupid to know the difference? Because there is power in being against guns, no future in calling out their own when human violence erupts.


31 posted on 09/07/2019 6:52:44 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Kid Shelleen

3 reasons: street gangs, street gangs and ... street gangs.

If the street gangs assumed room temperature one fine day crime rates would plummet overnight.


32 posted on 09/07/2019 6:58:16 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Kid Shelleen

If there was a Bounty on Known Gang Members, all this crap would end overnight.


33 posted on 09/07/2019 7:47:47 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Kid Shelleen

Because the people are the problem, not the guns.


34 posted on 09/07/2019 8:12:39 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Because the city is run and ruined by stupid/leftist Democrats who handicap the police, fail to help ICE get illegal aliens off the streets and out of the country, who believe that all cops are white racists, that drugs do no harm to their users, that Uncle Sam “pork barrel” money will continue to flow to their failed, corrupt inner-city projects and bloated salaried administrators, and that the poor people just love being used for target practice and piggy banks through killing drugs.

Other than that, Philly is a great city to live in if you are a rich white or black liberal who doesn’t have to live in the “hood”. I did when I was in college there. I saw the poverty and crime. Nothing has changed except the corrupt and incompetent Democrats and Marxists who run things.


35 posted on 09/07/2019 9:28:36 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: tired&retired

#6. Re “There were drunks and drug addicts passed out on the sidewalks everywhere”.

AND they were just the city officials!!!


36 posted on 09/07/2019 9:29:59 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: gaijin

Black thugs in London, England use brass knuckles to rob white boy of his PANTS, right there on the street:

https://twitter.com/crater_robert/status/1170254913970028544
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Enoch Powell was right:

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2016/03/31/mainstream-german-newspaper-publishes-favourable-article-on-enoch-powell/


37 posted on 09/07/2019 10:36:23 PM PDT by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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To: Kid Shelleen

share commonsense solutions.


like disarming law abiding citizens. When “gun control” achieves its aims, only the cops and the criminals will have guns; mass shootings will increase, not decrease - or at best remain at the same level as present.


38 posted on 09/08/2019 2:07:15 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Rudy Giuliani turned NYC around by empowering police to stop, question and search the elements of society that committed criminal acts in the neighborhoods where they live and cause problems. That worked.


39 posted on 09/08/2019 3:44:54 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: dblshot

Call it what it REALLY is .
Black Violence.

3% of population, Black males 14-35
commit 1/2 of all violent crimes, 1/2 of all murders.

Blacks committed 433,934 crimes against Whites
Whites committed 55,685 crimes against Blacks

14000 Black on White Rapes
White on Black Rapes statistically 0

(2007 FBI Crime Stats)

Blacks 40 times as likely to assault a White as the reverse.

Violent Crime
Blacks 24.7/100k 7x higher violent crime rate
White 3.4/100k

In 2012, blacks committed 560,600 acts of violence against whites, and whites committed 99,403 acts of violence against blacks, according to data from the National Crime Victimization Survey provided to the author:


40 posted on 09/08/2019 5:01:53 AM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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