Streets of San Francisco overflowing with guns

Streets of San Francisco overflowing with guns

---And the country is overflowing with illegal immigration bringing in MORE criminals. A man/woman should have the right to protect his/her family and not make it illegal for him/her to have a gun in which to do it. The criminals are going to get them REGARDLESS of the laws if they want one. Give the rights back to the citizens and you will see a drop in crime if they know we are armed.

For all I know guns may be the cause of a crime wave in San Francisco, but the statistics cited in this article are the most muddled I've seen in quite a while. Two conspicuous points:

...a handful of other indicators, from shootings to the number of guns seized by police, all point to a greater level of gun violence in San Francisco.

(I need hardly point out that many things can cause a rise in the rate of gun seizure.)

San Francisco police Capt. Kevin Cashman,[...] blamed the increase in gun violence on gangs and the availability of guns on the streets. However, law enforcement officials did not provide any indications of why there are more guns in San Francisco.

In other words, he blames the increase on two factors, but doesn't show any evidence that those two factors have changed. He could just as well have blamed it on the proximity of the Pacific Ocean.

http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/sfh-3.html

1978 Harvey Milk was born May 22, 1930 in Woodmere, New York. He became a sucessful Wall Street investment analyst and supported Barry Goldwater for president.

He got involved in Broadway theatre which began eroding his conservative views. He moved west and decided that he wanted to be Mayor of San Francisco! His new found liberalism, charisma, weird sense of humor, and belief in politics as theatre, set the stage for his San Francisco political career.

... It's 11 AM on Monday morning, November 27, 1978 in San Francisco. The startling news comes to us from KSAN, the popular rock-and-roll station. Dianne Feinstein, President of the Board of Supervisors, in a shaking voice says: "Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot . . . and killed. The suspect is Supervisor Dan White."

Dan White was a typical all-american-boy born and raised in San Francisco. He was a policeman and then a fireman and then ran for Supervisor in the heavily conservative Irish-Catholic working class neighborhood known as District 8. He promised to restore traditional values to San Francisco city government. He promised to rid San Francisco of "radicals, social deviates, and incorrigibles"

... However, he did not bother to contact White at any time during the weekend. By Monday morning White's rage had reached a peak and he loaded his gun and went downtown. He entered City Hall through an open basement window to avoid the metal detectors at the entrances. He went first to Moscone's office and shot him in the chest and then delivered a bullet to the head at close range as the mayor lay dying on the floor. As he walked down the corridor to the Supervisors' offices on the other end of the building, he reloaded his gun. He asked Harvey for a few minutes in private and led him into his former office where he slew him in the same manner including two bullets to the brain...

Dan White left City Hall without further incident and was found a short time later with his wife praying at Saint Mary's Cathedral, several blocks from City Hall. Dan White was paroled from Soledad Prison on January 6, 1985 after serving a minimal sentence for manslaughter. He committed suicide on October 21, 1985.

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