Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forum'This is not normal': Cape sees 15 shootings in less than a year
This is not normal, she said.
The style and circumstances around some of the shootings alarms Stop Needless Acts of Violence Please (SNAP) members, who met for a vigil Friday night near the site of Airious Darlings killing March 31.
The first Cape Girardeau/Bollinger County Major Case Squad investigation of 2015 began in the afternoon of June 29. Paige Smith was sitting on the porch between two other women when she was shot in the head in a drive-by shooting.
http://www.semissourian.com/story/2296310.html
flamin lib
(14,559 posts)previous years. Do I need a sarcasm thingy here?
jonno99
(2,620 posts)ileus
(15,396 posts)you can't be too safe...
TeddyR
(2,493 posts)Who have some of the more stringent gun laws in the country experienced huge spikes in murders last year.
And this from the same story:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/04/21/homicides-were-up-last-year-in-some-major-u-s-cities-just-three-cities-saw-most-of-the-increase/?hpid=hp_local-news_pn-homicides-1230pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
jimmy the one
(2,717 posts)Baltimore had a spike in murders due the killing of freddie gray last year, & subsequent rioting & civil unrest.
I know it's a bit dated at 4 years old, but even with the spike in balto's murder in 2015, the 4 gun control cities overall fared better in 2012 than the 9 pro gun cities listed below:
...all rates, 2012...pop ..... violcr... murder... property
Gun control cities
Los Angeles 3,855,122 ....... 481 ....7.8 ......2,269 (+~14%vcr,2014)
Baltimore 625,474 .........1,405 ......35 ..... 4,660
New York 8,289,415 .........639 ...... 5.1 ....1,722 (still safest >500k population)
Chicago 2,708,382 ...........N/A .....18.3 .... 4,152 (handguns ok 2011)
Pro gun cities:
Tenn Memphis 657,436 .......1,750 ....20.2 ....6,312
Dallas 1,241,549 ..................675 .....12.4 ...4,373
Houston 2,177,273 ...............992 .....10.0 ...4,945
Kansas City 464,073 ...........1,263 ......22 ....5,525
Nashville 620,886 ..............1,216 .....10.0.....4,195
St. Louis 318,667 ..............1,776 ......35 .....6,902 (siccw 2005)
Detroit 707,096 .................2,122 ......54 ....5,792 (siccw 2002, leans gun)
New Orleans 362,874............815 .......53 .....3,772
Oklahoma City 595,607 ........919 ......14.3 .... 5,941.8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate_(2012)
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)It appears the phenomenon of violent gang activity is deeply entrenched in some cultures, and will remain that way unless more fundamental social policy changes are made. Since much gang activity is centered on prohibited drugs (and the territorial disputes which arise therefrom), yet another prohibition policy -- banning guns -- is just as likely to fail as the drug bans. In fact, the violence problem will probably be exascerbated.