Posted on 08/07/2017 1:08:13 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
When someone is shot in Sacramento, its a good bet that one of about 50 mostly black or Latino young men pulled the trigger.
Police know it. Community members know it.
DeVone Boggan knows it, too. In Richmond, where he runs an anti-gun violence program called Advance Peace, he has befriended 84 men considered most likely to kill with a gun there.
The truth about gun crimes, said Boggan, is that a small number of known shooters cause an outsize amount of trauma. They can be hard to catch, he said, and few have tried to reach them with anything but enforcement.
Every shooter in Boggans program in Richmond has been shot or had a family member shot. Gun violence typically breeds gun violence, because its cyclical and retaliatory, he said.
He said the violence often has less to do with organized gangs than it does personal rivalries and neighborhood cliques. Weve got beefs around respect issues, historical beefs, Boggan said.
Boggan said shooters are kids who grew up in atmospheric trauma and chaos every day, and often go minute-to-minute fearing for their safety and the safety of loved ones.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Post of the Day!
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Fifty (50) identified perps?
A single box
-- properly applied -- would fix the problem.
Another study, vigils, “Don’t Nobody Shoot Nobody” weekends, and all the rest of it, but whatever you do, don’t speak the truth. The problem isn’t guns. The problem is young black males with guns and young Hispanic males with guns. Shhh, keep pretending it’s the gun.
If you know who is killing all those folks then go out there, find them, and shoot them.
GMTA
50 member Midnight Basketball League. Problem solved.
50 rounds in a box of ammo.
Coincidence??
Listen carefully...NO!
Pour encourager les autres ...
Hooking them up to old Sparky will also get them to stop
I stopped reading at that point.
I would submit to you, that almost every American who shot and/or killed a bad guy in self-defense, does not suddenly become "cyclical and retaliatory." My understanding is that they go through a range of emotions that does not generally include going Full Metal Jacket on the neighborhood.
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