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We live in a city where mass shootings happen weekly. It’s long past the time to call them what they are.
The Philidelphia Inquirer ^ | 5/7/2023 | Helen Ubiñas

Posted on 05/09/2023 5:51:58 AM PDT by MrRelevant

The hope, of course, being that calling these clusters — or incidents or triple or quadruple shootings — what they actually are would elicit the same public outcry as those designated mass shootings.

But we’re still parsing out impact and outcry.

There have been 23 shootings so far this year with three or more victims, according to the Police Department’s shooting database. In essence, a mass shooting every five days. In February, seven people, including a 2-year-old girl and five teenagers, were shot in Strawberry Mansion.

Last year there were 74 shootings with three or more victims. And except for a few rare instances, they are described in all manner of ways except the one they should consistently be referred to: mass shootings, every single one.

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To: MrRelevant

YES! CALL THEM WHAT THEY ARE! The visual result of a Nation that has turned away from the God of the Bible. And guess what! It’s gonna get a whole lot worse...


21 posted on 05/09/2023 7:18:45 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: KenD
If laws against something eliminate it then there can be no murders, no “mass shootings”, etc. because those things are against the law today.

Outlawing guns will end gun crime the same way outlawing drugs ended drug crime.

22 posted on 05/09/2023 7:19:05 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
For some reason there is a reluctance to talk about violence and mayhem committed by youth gangs. Perhaps it’s because of so many of the gang members are members of minority groups? I’ve never been able to figure that one out

DING! DING! DING! Yes, it's because of the inordinate amount of crime committed by Blacks to Blacks out of all proportion to their percentage of the U.S. population.

Bill Clinton understood this and that is why when sHrillary was running for President in 2016, Bill was called racist on the campaign trail by angry BLM Liberals. His 1994 Crime Bill that banned assault weapons also put 10,000 more cops on the streets, greatly increased incarceration rates (especially among Blacks,) and vastly increased the prison population which consisted of Blacks out of proportion to their population percentage.

Arresting and incarcerating Blacks is racist today, which is why Soros-funded D.A.s are letting Blacks go when arrested for petty shoplifting crimes all the way to felon in possession of a firearm charges.

23 posted on 05/09/2023 8:02:27 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: MrRelevant

Feral blacks, mostly killing other blacks, that’s really all this is.


24 posted on 05/09/2023 8:40:30 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: MrRelevant

Call them what they are: Dem voters.


25 posted on 05/09/2023 8:49:47 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: MrRelevant

If you want to have an honest conversation about crime and shootings, you have to talk about race. America’s murder rate among Whites is on par with Denmark.


26 posted on 05/09/2023 9:54:29 AM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: Mr. Blond

That conversation cannot happen. Otherwise all the thought and effort the left puts into making these 3rd world cesspools murder hotspots is wasted. Democrats need chaos and strife to survive. Until the people are ready to lock up criminals and psychopaths the killing continues. In most of the most violent places, its easier for a bad guy to get a gun than the good guys...by design.


27 posted on 05/09/2023 10:41:02 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: MrRelevant

According to the headline. Shootings in Philadelphia will now be called: “Plain old Black on Black murder, with Stolen guns”


28 posted on 05/09/2023 11:01:30 AM PDT by cquiggy
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To: MrRelevant

You’re putting the cart before the horse. It is not “Blue cities”. Show me violent cities in Vermont and New Hampshire. It’s the minorities that made the cities blue, not the other way round.


29 posted on 05/09/2023 12:17:01 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: Mr. Blond

I think were on the same side...lol. Why do these scumbags flock to those cities and stay there? These are the places the leftist politicians will support them financially, excuse them criminally, treat them like victims while simultaneously condemning the violence and chaos these folks cause...while, of course, never actually accepting blame for the failed policies theyve implemented to feed it.


30 posted on 05/09/2023 12:29:12 PM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: MrRelevant

Generally speaking, yes. I don’t know if any White Democrats had to attract blacks to Baltimore, poor blacks don’t have the agency to migrate. There are just black cities, because that’s where they found themselves. Whites leave Detroit, the blacks stay behind. Africans then elect Africans, then you get Africa.


31 posted on 05/09/2023 12:39:20 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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