Posted on 01/03/2007 5:48:04 AM PST by rellimpank
In memory of Darrent Williams, the Broncos player killed Monday, Denver should close ranks against the gun culture that endangers the city's streets.
The dawn of the new year should be a time of renewed optimism and fresh starts. Instead, Denver is reeling with sadness over a senseless tragedy.
If the Denver Broncos are the heart of the city, as one player said recently, then that heart is breaking over the shooting death of 24-year-old cornerback Darrent Williams. He was gunned down in the middle of the night on Jan. 1 when someone pulled alongside his rented Hummer limo and strafed it with gunfire. Williams had just left a birthday party for Denver Nugget Kenyon Martin at Shelter, a nightclub on Broadway. Two others in the limo also were injured.
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There, that's more like it.
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.
Denver should close ranks against the ILLEGAL & CRIMINAL culture that endangers the city's streets.
--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--
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...
Excellent point.
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.
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.
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.
Exactly!
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.
Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars.
Along with more armed, law abiding citizens of course.
That gets a don-o
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.
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.
I'll give 100-1 that the shooter was not licensed to carry, nor a member of the evil NRA.
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