Williams' murder a cowardly gun crime (barf alert)

Denver Post ^ | 3 Jan 07

[oh8eleven]

Incredibly, Williams' murder was the second drive-by shooting of a pro athlete in Denver in less than a year.
Not so "incredible," considering today's athletes.

[Puppage]

Denver should close ranks against the ILLEGAL & CRIMINAL gun culture that endangers the city's streets.

There, that's more like it.

[atomicpossum]

I've never understood why libs think that people willing to break laws against murder are going to be deterred by laws against having a gun.

[Valpal1]

You left the word gun in, should read:

Denver should close ranks against the ILLEGAL & CRIMINAL culture that endangers the city's streets.

[rellimpank]

--and I would leave the "gun" out of that quote--the "gun culture" of which I am a part has nothing to do with gang and other criminal related shooting, to which I will bet this is related--

[2banana]

I'll bet one my paychecks the the criminal who did this was a fellow "brother" taking shots at a random "rich" limo to teach some cracker a lesson...

[Puppage]

--and I would leave the "gun" out of that quote--the "gun culture" of which I am a part has nothing to do with gang and other criminal related shooting, to which I will bet this is related--

Excellent point.

[oldironsides]

Ray Lewis of the Ravens leased a limo and became involved in a shooting after a super bowl party and a man died. Nothing to see here, move on. Philadelphia had 400+ murders.
People are dying all over the USA and criminal behavior is still glorified in rap music. Let us hear once again how poverty is the reason for the murders. BS.

[robertpaulsen]

"Denver should close ranks against the gun culture that endangers the city's streets."

The gun culture?

What about the hip-hop culture? The drug culture? The gang culture? The club culture? The black culture?

"Police couldn't say for sure whether an earlier altercation at Shelter was related to the shooting."

Uh-huh. I'm betting that Mr. Williams dissed the wrong person.

[Youngman442002]

We have a white mayor in Denver.....do you think politically he can round up the Black and Hispanic gang members and get them off our streets...NOT

Do me make Rap Illegal..NO

Did more people get murdered in the US of A on New Years than died in Iraq for the weekend...YES

Our society is falling apart....I personally think we need a benevolent Dictator

[Mr. Mojo]

"Williams' murder a cowardly gun crime"

No, it was a cowardly gangsta crime. Had the perp instead killed Williams by running him down in his own car would the author have written about "a cowardly automobile crime"? Obviously not. .....unless the auto in question were an SUV, that is.

[pandoraou812]

Exactly!

[bondjamesbond]

It's not so much the guns, of course, but the fact that violent criminals are using the guns. That said, I think we can all agree that violent criminals using guns is a bad thing.

To combat that problem, we need to have fewer violent criminals running around.

[Youngman442002]

Cowardly...in the Gangster world...this is a show of Manhood...LOL

[umgud]

Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars.

[Puppage]

To combat that problem, we need to have fewer violent criminals running around

Along with more armed, law abiding citizens of course.

[don-o]

Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars.

That gets a don-o

Big Ceegar!

I am sorry this man got killed. But, he placed himself in a situation where unsavory types might reasonably be expected to be present.

Grace of God moment here. Many years ago, three people were killed on a Christmas Eve in a "revenge shooting. I knew many of the people who were in that bar that night. I was not far enough into the disease at that time to have been there.

But, I could have been.

[Condor51]

There is no 'gun culture' problem.

The problem is the.... Thug Culture, the Rap Hip-Hop Culture, Gang Culture and excusez-moi the Black Culture (deal with it pc hand wringers).

And the 'culture' that if someone bumps into you, instead of saying excuse me, or pardon me, you start talking trash about being 'disrespected' (what kind of word is that anyway?).

And the 'Culture' that every Black Pro Athlete needs a 'posse'. Tony Dungy 'went off' about this while at Tampa Bay about some of his players and was then summarily fired.

So NO, it's not a 'gun culture' problem. It's a problem foisted on 'us' by p.c. liberals who refuse to call a spade a spade, and a thug a thug. These 'athletes' should be playing in Sing Sing or Statesville, not Denver or Chicago.

[USS Alaska]

I'll give 100-1 that the shooter was not licensed to carry, nor a member of the evil NRA.