Posted on 09/07/2019 4:44:15 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
There was a shooting in Philadelphia every six hours in 2018. Jim MacMillan contends that didn’t have to be.
“We know how to stop gun violence,” MacMillan, founder of IBGVR.org, the Initiative for Better Gun Violence Reporting, said Saturday at a conference designed to spread the word on what he and others contend are effective deterrents. Community activists; young people from the inner city; mothers of children killed by guns; and reporters from television, online, and print news outlets gathered to talk about how better to cover gun violence in the city and share commonsense solutions.
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I have friends who grew up in Philadelphia. I guess it was nice, once.
I spent a week there in 2015, Center City, and I’ve been back twice on business since then.
I grew up in Brooklyn, went to school there in the 1970s, and lived in Manhattan until I was 30. It’s not like I am a stranger to the urban environment.
But I could tell you after ten minutes on the street downtown that Philadelphia was in trouble, big trouble, and I’m not at all surprised that things have gotten worse since 2015.
Solutions do exist as the saying “an armed society is a polite society” suggests.
One sign on the city limits:
Gun Free Zone. Didn’t work.
So, new severe restrictions to go on the books for all law abiding citizens.
Will the habitual lawbreakers then stop the violence because they are so deeply impressed by the new laws?
No.
Have you noticed the media doesn’t talk to the mothers of murderers (there’s never a father involved)? I would think it would be quite enlightening to hear how someone screwed up so bad as a parent that there son murdered someone.
I used to work in downtown Philly 40 years ago... it was nice.
Went there recently for a wedding. There were drunks and drug addicts passed out on the sidewalks everywhere. Not against the buildings or on steps, but right in the walkways at the intersections next to the municipal building.
No one dare say what the “gun violence” in Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, etc. etc. problem is. Too many out-of-control black young men. If you daren’t even name the problem, you have no hope of fixing it.
Solution? Change the factors that stifled Black families.
Declared a “Sanctuary City” with an azzhat mayor.
And now there is a suggestion to ban kevlar vests.
How can someone decent visit a filthy jungle urban city? I won’t go. Boycotted Detroit since 1975. Proudly.
Black thugs in London, England use brass knuckles to rob white boy of his PANTS, right there on the street:
https://twitter.com/crater_robert/status/1170254913970028544
Krasner!
Nobody cares.I mean the Cops and politicians don’t care.
It’s the same here in Chicago. It all starts at home with the families. If a woman makes a bad decision and conceives with a man who won’t stick around for whatever reason, it’s usually downhill from there.
The issues stem from:
1.) Lack of a parental figure, usually of the same sex as the child, or both.
2.) Injection of substance abuse into family life, use by parents and/or older role models.
3.) Lack of accountability for bad decisions, bot at home and in school.
4.) Allowing kids to run wild without supervision for long periods of time, causes exposure to street life.
5.) Not teaching boundaries, allowing kids to believe they can take what they want when they want it.
Worked at 15th & chestnut in the 60’s nice at the time.
banning bulletproof glass in stores...yeah thats the ticket
It isn’t just Detoilet, it’s every city over 10,000 in lower Michigan.
Some are less crappy, but they all suck.
Partially because we call it gun violence instead of human violence.
Michigan’s State Motto: Si quaeris peninsulam crappiscam circumspice. This Latin phrase translates to ‘If you seek a crappy leftist peninsula, look about you.’ (My own version. Studied Latin 59 years ago.)
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