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New York Yankees, Tampa Bay Rays Pause Game Coverage to Highlight Gun Violence Stats
Breitbart ^ | 05/26/2022 | Jordan Dixon-Hamilton

Posted on 05/26/2022 6:57:14 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay Rays suspended their usual game coverage on Twitter to draw attention to gun violence within the United States.

Typically, the two organizations’ Twitter accounts post live states about the game being played. Instead, they posted statistics about gun violence on Thursday. The move by the two Major League Baseball teams comes in the aftermath of the Uvalde school shooting, where an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school.

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This is why I stopped watching baseball years ago. It's a woke dumpster fire
1 posted on 05/26/2022 6:57:14 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Teams from places like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, etc. need to look at their own Democrat-run cities for all the criminals who have already been caught committing crimes with firearms but are out free on the streets.

New York City in particular, with a racist black man recently shooting up a subway car full of people and another perp who shot an innocent passenger dead just a few days ago. New York City releases criminals back into the public because they don't care who they shoot and kill.

3 posted on 05/26/2022 7:01:58 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: ChicagoConservative27

2025

Amendment XIV is now under fire....


4 posted on 05/26/2022 7:02:34 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Johnny Rockets

The Ray’s actually gave money to gun grabbing anything. I dispise that franchise now.


5 posted on 05/26/2022 7:04:56 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! S Matter)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Oh puleeze!
6 posted on 05/26/2022 7:06:41 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Uvalde sounds like a Yankees pitcher.


7 posted on 05/26/2022 7:07:47 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Anytown


8 posted on 05/26/2022 7:11:22 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! S Matter)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just another reason to send out a big FU to pro sports.


9 posted on 05/26/2022 7:11:36 PM PDT by tomkat ( SOTU = FUBAR )
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To: Johnny Rockets

Ah, those useful idiots still supporting the MLB, an organization that hates them.


10 posted on 05/26/2022 7:15:04 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Did they mention 13/50+?


11 posted on 05/26/2022 7:25:57 PM PDT by Captainpaintball
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Did they mention all the blacks that are killing other blacks by the hundreds?

I didn’t think so.


12 posted on 05/26/2022 7:36:59 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what you get when gullible children run a 'news' channel.)
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To: joma89

They overcharge, overadvertise and rip off the fans to pay the obscene salaries of players, executives and owners. They are fleecing the useful idiots big time.


13 posted on 05/26/2022 7:47:44 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I took my son to a San Francisco Giants game in SF when he was about 5 or 6, about 25 years ago. We were sitting just past the dugouts on the third base line when they rolled out the “AIDS Quilt.” You can imagine the questions from my son: “Daddy, what’s that?”

I think I went to one or two games after that.


14 posted on 05/26/2022 7:51:44 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Wanting to make America great isn’t an insult unless you’re trying to make it worse! ULTRAMAGA!!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Did they mention the millions of people who successfully defended their loved ones with a firearm?


15 posted on 05/26/2022 11:32:28 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (My body, my choice....but not when it comes down to unconstitutional "vaccine" mandates.)
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This is why I stopped watching baseball years ago. It’s a woke dumpster fire

beat me to it


16 posted on 05/27/2022 2:40:38 AM PDT by stockpirate (Where Justice Ends Tyranny Begins...Repression Breeds Violence)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

All aboard!


17 posted on 05/27/2022 4:42:05 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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"Happy as a Commucrat after a School Shooting!"


18 posted on 05/27/2022 4:59:55 AM PDT by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, RINOs, Islamonazis, Marxists, Commucrats, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
There are 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, and this number is not disputed.

0.000000925% of the population dies from gun related actions each year. Statistically speaking, this is insignificant!

What is never told, however, is a breakdown of those 30,000 deaths, to put them in perspective as compared to other causes of death:
• 65% of those deaths are by suicide which would never be prevented by gun laws
• 15% are by law enforcement in the line of duty and justified
• 17% are through criminal activity, gang and drug related or mentally ill persons – gun violence
• 3% are accidental discharge deaths

So technically, "gun violence" is not 30,000 annually, but drops to 5,100. Still too many? Well, first, how are those deaths spanned across the nation?

480 homicides (9.4%) were in Chicago

344 homicides (6.7%) were in Baltimore

333 homicides (6.5%) were in Detroit

119 homicides (2.3%) were in Washington D.C. (a 54% increase over prior years)

So basically, 25% of all gun crime happens in just 4 cities. All 4 of those cities have strict gun laws, so it is not the lack of law that is the root cause.

These are also democRAT controlled cities. The problem isn't guns. The problem is a RAT infestation.

This basically leaves 3,825 for the entire rest of the nation, or about 75 deaths per state. That is an average because some States have much higher rates than others. For example, California had 1,169 and Alabama had 1.

Again, California is infested with RATs. Alabama is not.

19 posted on 05/27/2022 6:04:52 AM PDT by LouAvul (Complacency is the enemy of courage.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

lots of emotion, but short on facts.


20 posted on 05/27/2022 6:07:57 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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