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billh58

(6,641 posts)
Sun Jun 20, 2021, 07:47 PM Jun 2021

Weekend gun violence shakes gatherings in cities across U.S.

Weekend violence: 400 shot in US

Over the last weekend, a spate of shootings from coast to coast left over 100 dead and 300 injured. Is the end of the pandemic seeing a rise in crime? Source: CNN

https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/05/10/exp-tsr-todd-weekend-violence-420-people-shot-in-72-hours.cnn


The right-wingers must be so proud that their Second Amendment solution is working.
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Weekend gun violence shakes gatherings in cities across U.S. (Original Post) billh58 Jun 2021 OP
Just like the old days in the Balkans! Mopar151 Jun 2021 #1
Same ole, same ole. Pandemic, no pandemic shootings. AndyS Jun 2021 #2
I thought this only happened in CHICAGO!? live love laugh Jun 2021 #3

Mopar151

(10,177 posts)
1. Just like the old days in the Balkans!
Sun Jun 20, 2021, 08:16 PM
Jun 2021

"We must break the chains of the (Communist?) Oppressor's, so that we may breathe the air of freedom! Only then, may we take up our true cause of shootin` those goddammit neighbors! Worst bunch you ever saw - the sonsabitches have needed killing for 400 years!

AndyS

(14,559 posts)
2. Same ole, same ole. Pandemic, no pandemic shootings.
Sun Jun 20, 2021, 08:19 PM
Jun 2021

Some at home 'cause she's just won't listen. Some 'cause kids gonna' be kids (with guns). Some 'cause road rage. Some 'cause "I felt threatened". Some 'cause the music was too loud.

All because we worship guns.

Reduce the gun supply, reduce death and injury.

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