Posted on 08/01/2021 6:25:22 AM PDT by rellimpank
Until 2017, Oct. 1 was just another day of the year. Tragically, however, it is now synonymous with the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history — and it happened in our community.
While high-profile mass shootings get most of the media attention when it comes to gun violence, they actually make up a relatively small percentage of gun deaths. I don’t say this to suggest that mass shootings aren’t a tremendous and tragic problem, because they are. However, I think it is important to recognize that the scope of the gun violence crisis is so large that the number of casualties resulting from mass shootings is dwarfed by the thousands of Americans who lose their lives to firearm suicide, community and domestic violence, and unintentional shootings each year.
As the Clark County district attorney and a member of Prosecutors Against Gun Violence, I am deeply committed to improving the safety of my community, my state and my country, and one of my top priorities is to end the gun violence epidemic. There are many steps that we need to take to do this, but one of the easiest and most immediate is confirming a director to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).
This may not even be on the radar of many of those in our community, but this is an important position and it is critical that the right person be selected to lead the ATF. The president’s nominee, David Chipman, worked at ATF for 25 years. During that time, he served on the ATF’s version of SWAT and investigated the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. David has also investigated major firearms trafficking cases, including a crime ring that was transporting guns to New York from Virginia in exchange for drugs.
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Hide and watch the GOP cave in for this slug.
You’re welcome to go first.
Yep.
Clearly a POS rag...
Very excellent thoughts...
Only exception I would make is the last paragraph, which I think is nearly impossible at this point...
Whoever Biden nominates will be bad news for gun owners, probably even drinkers and fireworks fans.
But mostly those of us who enjoy our precious 2nd Amendment.
That’s probably true. Urban blacks are killing themselves; they have no training and shoot willy-nilly at people on their front porch or at a barbecue, usually killing an innocent child.
Then, of course, it’s payback time for the gangbangers, who have to rush over and shoot up their families, grandparents, infants, etc.
I’m from Chicago and watch the daily news. When I first moved to Canada (unwillingly; got married to a Quebecois), I was really shocked that the news broadcasts did not start without the anchor saying, “Another shooting left three people dead on the South Side.”
Don’t be sorry; it was well-said.
I have often thought that “women’s lib” was one of the worst things to happen to the U.S. Women stopped cooking nutritious food for their families (Uber Eats, anyone?) and eventually led to the forced “wussificattion,” if that’s a word, of real men. Their sons are given drugs like ritalin because they are behaving as most boys do; they get antsy sitting behind a desk for eight hours.
With Covid, there’s no recess (someone should invent a huge sanitizing airplane to soak playgrounds) and boys always get lost in the shuffle.
And with the “woke” culture, real men are afraid to speak up, at risk of being called .... racist, sexist, homophobic, you name it.
It is not the America I grew up in.
I’m originally from California, but I spent my middle years — about 25-30 years total — in Chicago. For me it turned out to be a wonderful place . . . in parts. It was quite possible to live there safely and enjoy the many cultural and job opportunities. But I would never advise someone to buy a home (I rented) or try to raise children there. Things have gotten much worse since I moved back West. Carjackings, drive-bys, shoplifting and burglaries, armed robbery, you name it. All are off the chart, along with property taxes.
Just a minor clarification...
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