I have friends who grew up in Philadelphia. I guess it was nice, once.
I spent a week there in 2015, Center City, and I’ve been back twice on business since then.
I grew up in Brooklyn, went to school there in the 1970s, and lived in Manhattan until I was 30. It’s not like I am a stranger to the urban environment.
But I could tell you after ten minutes on the street downtown that Philadelphia was in trouble, big trouble, and I’m not at all surprised that things have gotten worse since 2015.
Solutions do exist as the saying “an armed society is a polite society” suggests.
One sign on the city limits:
Gun Free Zone. Didn’t work.
So, new severe restrictions to go on the books for all law abiding citizens.
Will the habitual lawbreakers then stop the violence because they are so deeply impressed by the new laws?
No.
Have you noticed the media doesn’t talk to the mothers of murderers (there’s never a father involved)? I would think it would be quite enlightening to hear how someone screwed up so bad as a parent that there son murdered someone.
No one dare say what the “gun violence” in Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, etc. etc. problem is. Too many out-of-control black young men. If you daren’t even name the problem, you have no hope of fixing it.
Solution? Change the factors that stifled Black families.
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
Nobody cares.I mean the Cops and politicians don’t care.
It’s the same here in Chicago. It all starts at home with the families. If a woman makes a bad decision and conceives with a man who won’t stick around for whatever reason, it’s usually downhill from there.
The issues stem from:
1.) Lack of a parental figure, usually of the same sex as the child, or both.
2.) Injection of substance abuse into family life, use by parents and/or older role models.
3.) Lack of accountability for bad decisions, bot at home and in school.
4.) Allowing kids to run wild without supervision for long periods of time, causes exposure to street life.
5.) Not teaching boundaries, allowing kids to believe they can take what they want when they want it.
Partially because we call it gun violence instead of human violence.
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.)
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.
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?
A leftist asking a question everyone else (except other leftists) already know the answer to.
JoMa
A 16 year old is 63 - 67 trimesters of age. There are options.
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.
3 reasons: street gangs, street gangs and ... street gangs.
If the street gangs assumed room temperature one fine day crime rates would plummet overnight.
If there was a Bounty on Known Gang Members, all this crap would end overnight.