Posted on 07/03/2010 2:29:52 AM PDT by Scanian
Eight people were shot -- two fatally -- in four separate incidents in Brooklyn Wednesday night.
Last month, 26 people were shot, three fatally, over the course of one weekend in Chicago -- grisly, but a marked improvement over the Windy City's previous weekend, when more than 50 were shot, with eight dying.
An argument for tougher gun control?
But New York City and Chicago already have some of the most stringent gun-control laws in America -- to no apparent good effect.
So perhaps the real issue is a fundamental cultural disrepect for the value of human life -- and not just on the street.
Especially not just on the street.
Take Wednesday's absurd decision by a three-judge federal panel that rescued a notorious Staten Island cop-killer from an exceedingly rare -- but well-deserved -- death sentence.
The 2-1 decision by the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals was based on but a few words of a lengthy prosecutor's summation during the penalty phase of Ronell Wilson's trial, after he was convicted of murdering undercover cops James Nemorin and Rodney Andrews in 2003.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Sometimes it is to wonder if in internecine cases, where it’s gang versus gang and participation in the gangs is voluntary, should we give the person the needle or a medal. When they start going after nonparticipant citizens, or police, that is, of course, when the boom should be lowered the hardest. For all the fuss made over this case, two undercover agents perished cruelly, but what did the killer think they were? Were the agents outed before being shot? Did they manage to keep gang personas to the end? We are not told.
At some point, it needs to get personal for these judges.
‘nuff said.
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