Posted on 08/05/2007 11:43:52 AM PDT by shrinkermd
A good article written by a trauma surgeon comparing his Iraq experience with that of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Besides this there is this:
"...More young men are killed each day on the streets of America than on the worst days of carnage and loss in Iraq. There is a war at home raging every day, filling our trauma centers with so many wounded children that it sometimes makes Baghdad seem like a quiet city in Iowa.
"...Unlike the Iraq conflict, this war is not on the front pages of The Post or on CNN. You have heard of the Washington area sniper shootings and the massacre at Virginia Tech. I am sure you have not heard about the "Lex Street massacre," in which 10 people ages 15 to 56 were lined up and shot, execution-style, in the winter of 2000. Seven were killed, three critically injured.
"...You haven't heard about this tragedy because it happened to inner-city poor people in a crack house in Philadelphia. Imagine, for a moment, if this had occurred in a suburban shopping mall or if a Marine unit in Iraq had been involved. There would be shock, outrage, 24-hour news coverage, Senate hearings and a new color of ribbon to wear. That double standard, that triage of compassion and empathy, is why the war on the streets continues unabated.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
What is GSW?!
Gun Shot Wounds
We need more gun control, blah, blah, blah.
My GUESS, from a quick search, is gunshot wound?
Of course, it also has nothing to do with those same North Philly denizens adhering to the ridiculous "Stop Snitchin'" campaign.
One of the reasons this crap keeps happening is no one has the testicular fortitude to actually help gt these scumbags of the streets.
We don’t need more gun control; we need gang control. That’s what the reference to “inner city” means. Gangs.
I lived in Center City, Philly, near the Art Museum in 1969-70. Gunshots every night back then. Never got used to it.
There were places where I wouldn’t stop the car at a street light or red light. You “knew” if you did you wouldn’t be starting up again, and this was in the middle of the afternoon!!! Nighttime I didn’t even wanna think about!
Membership in a gang is and has the same effect as being a member of a terrorist cell. They are domestic terrorists who should be hunted down unmercifully and eliminated.
What we need is free libraries, public education, museums, low cost public housing, that will stop.....
Oh.
Yeah.
Um?
Gun control, that’s the ticket!
Too lazy to type it out?
The war in Iraq is the most horrible tragedy to befall America except maybe the 2nd Amendment or Global Warming or AIDS or name-the-topic-de-jour.
At the end of the day, it is just more emotional, subjective nitwittery.
Best regards,
Bla-bla-bla...
Most people are smart enough to know what it means.
I know that, and you know that, and any rational person knows that, but the MSM and the RATS will always use any crime story to propagandize for more gun control.
THANK YOU ..THANK YOU....FOR POSTING THIS ONE !!!!
I have been saying for a loooong time..we should have a weekley or daily running tally of those killed in the US by gunshot!
This gangsta stuff is what I have called “ Reverse darwinianism “!..we keep the most UNFIT alive with entitlements, etc.
A good school lunch program would fix this.
Oh..btw.. the Libs will say our military didn’t ‘choose “to put themselves in this position. Yeesh.
Little surprised washington compost is running this article. Wonder why?
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