Posted on 06/24/2020 8:49:00 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Data collected by Action News shows shootings in the city of Philadelphia have surged since the end of May, and it shows no signs of slowing down.
On Monday night, Philadelphia police said two 15-year-olds were shot, one suffered at least 15 gunshot wounds. The teens, who are expected to survive, are just two of the dozens of shooting victims this year.
Data shows that 117 people have been shot in Philadelphia since June 1, or for the past three weeks.
Since the year began, nearly 800 people have been shot in the city, that's a 24% increase from the year before.
(Excerpt) Read more at 6abc.com ...
“...15 gunshot wounds...” — probably bird shot.
“Parkinson’s law is the adage that “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”. It is sometimes applied to the growth of bureaucracy in an organization.”
IOW the number of social problems expands to keep the number of available social workers busy.
Defund and disembowel the Philly PD!
Gun violence is one of the stupidest phrases I’ve ever heard in my life
Democrats couned this a couple decades ago as they tried to pass all their anti-Second Amendment legislation
All of their statements all of your bills always say blah blah blah against gun violence
Since When has an in animate object, a fire arm , gotten up walked across the yard and shot you?
It's part of the antisocial distancing mandate.
All depends on how a 'crime' is defined.
Refer to Article 58 of the 1936 USSR constitution for a glimpse into that definition.
Over 7,000 black men were killed by other black men in 2019.
Which group needs to examine their values? OK, both... but which is the greater threat to black lives?
That is when the useful idiots will say "we never wanted this" as the powerful laugh at their stupidity.
I wonder what the growth rate of “knife violence” and “auto violence” was?
Try an Associate Word game: Ask your pro-gun buddies what is the first word that comes into their mind when the word “gun” or “violence” is mentioned.
I’ll warrant that most of the time it will either be “violence” or “gun”. See how insidious the media is in the constant use of that phrase?
The DA was funded by soros
There are a great many historic sites in Philadelphia going back to colonial times. Monument survivors may have been triggered by recent events.
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