Leaders scramble for ways to stop surge of killings (San Francisco)

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 11/19/05 | Jaxon Van Derbeken

[LdSentinal]

A surge in random violence has pushed San Francisco's homicide rate ahead of last year's pace, leaving city officials wondering what more they can do to reduce the bloodshed.

Two killings took place Friday. In the first, a carpenter was gunned down in the morning as he walked in a Mission District alley, possibly because he was wearing a blue shirt in territory claimed by a gang that wears red.

Then at 6:30 p.m., an unidentified man was gunned down in the 1600 block of Sunnydale Avenue.

The two killings brought the city's total to 84 slayings in 2005, compared with 81 at this time last year.

Until recently, police and city officials had been encouraged by a drop in homicides that dated from the middle of 2004. That was around the time local authorities began working with federal law enforcement to charge chronic violent offenders with federal gun possession crimes that could put them behind bars for long stretches.

[YouPosting2Me]

"A surge in random violence"

Ahhhh, reminds of Paris in the spring...

[martin_fierro]

Ooooh, I know!

Let's ban all guns AND give free wireless internet access!

[clee1]

San Fagisco... a blight on the Nation.

[dead]

In the first, a carpenter was gunned down in the morning as he walked in a Mission District alley, possibly because he was wearing a blue shirt in territory claimed by a gang that wears red.

That's so eighties.

[massgopguy]

They should leaflet men in Red Shirts to make sure they got the gun ban message.

[Eagles Talon IV]

Oh Hell, this is easy to fix. All they have to do is ban handguns...oh wait...

[EagleUSA]

These morons are unexcelled in the liberal destruction of their city. The Communist Manifesto has taken over...along with ULTRA-EXTREME liberalism. These Marxists haven't figured out that crime goes up where criminals KNOW there will be little punishment in the courts for crime AND NO GUNS in the hands of law-abiding citizens....

Marxist idiots.

[planekT]

All these criminals will turn in their guns on April 1st, according to the plan.

BWAHAHAHAHA

[IronJack]

city officials [are] wondering what more they can do to reduce the bloodshed.

Maybe they could hold hands with the murderers and sing "Kumbaya." Or seek them out and mind-meld with them. Or share a bong.

You know, all those pacifist "solutions" that other people are supposed to try but that never seem to work in the real world.

[RexBeach]

Nice to know tough gun laws are reducing crime in San Francisco!

[KenmcG414]

If there was ever a city that asked for it, SanFrancisco is.

[savedbygrace]

An immediate pullout.

Isn't that what they want President Bush to do in Iraq?

[svcw]

Looks like they baned all personally owned guns a bit to soon.

[fizziwig]

Wait till the youts start rioting in frisco.....they ain't seen nothing yet..

[Mears]

You beat me to it!!

[TNdandelion]

A friend of mine that ran a lawn service that serviced some city housing (projects) found herself in a similar bind. When confronted by gang members that were opposed to the color shirts her workers wore, they decided to agree on LIME GREEN t-shirts next time.LOL

[Youngman442002]

N.G.L. No Great Loss

[FeeinTennessee]

Hmmm, well that info. is quite interesting...seeing as San Fran just voted to ban guns:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/9/80901.shtml?et=y

[kentj]

The rear end ramming board of stupidvisors needs to consider a law that the frontiers settlers used when establishing our great country.

As difficult as it will be to accept but make it a law that everyone has a gun in a house and they know how to use it - if not then they can not have the house.

Arm up or get the heck out of our frontier cause we don't want to save your fairy candy ass's anyway.

Oh maybe I should not have said that quite that way PC and all - let me try again - We don feel it our responsibility to come to the aid of people who will continue to put themselves at risk without taking proper steps to protect themselves. there that was better wasn't it - I would not want to offend the flaming happy people center of the world now would I?


One more thing stop with the back-door stuff with each other it's not healthy, AIDS, Hep 1-12, herpes, ruptured colon (very nasty) have you lost your mind?