Historic low in NYC, Chicago homicides

[Foosinho]

The bloodshed in Baltimore is blamed on entrenched poverty, widespread drug addiction, failing schools and easy access to guns.

That's a lie. Criminals are to blame for the bloodshed.

No it's not. Three of those things breed criminals, and the fourth makes is easier to commit violent crime. Simply blaming "criminals" is tantamount to throwing your hands up and saying the problem is unfixable.

Keeping guns out of the hands of those with poor intentions - or at least making them difficult to acquire - does help. But so does reducing poverty, drug addiction, and fixing schools.

 

[hnk45acp]

All in all, I strongly suspect that these statistics are doctored, incomplete, or simply misleading, so as to create a false flag under which the anti-2nd Amendment people can fly their political bullsh*t this coming election.

I don't think that the data is doctored, it's just interpreted to aid whose ever side wants to push their points of view. You could easily say that letting the AWB expire and the increase in CCW nationwide has helped the natl crime stats down but it wouldn't necessarily be true either. Causation vs. correlation and all that. I live in NYC the reason why crime is down is because we have over 35,000 cops on the streets. As to why crime is up, it's a whole myriad of reasons and you'd be hard pressed to find any direct correlation with any and all above reasons mentioned in the article but that doesn't stop lazy journalists from making dramatic leaps of reasoning

 

[Stephen21B]

There are so many guns around here (central PA) that the market is saturated to the point where gun shops are selling $300 guns for $150 or less but I have yet to see a gun fight in the streets or at Wal-mart or at the local schools or here at Dunkin Donuts, At Fort Leonard Wood in MO where I'm currently stationed (home for the Holidays right now though) everyone has an assault rifle, there everywhere, in the barracks, in the chow hall, everywhere but I have yet to see a shooting there either, I know I'm just preaching to the choir but I really doubt the "assault" weapons are the problem actually I know they are not but thats not the point.

 

[Stephen21B]

There are so many guns around here (central PA) that the market is saturated to the point where gun shops are selling $300 guns for $150 or less but I have yet to see a gun fight in the streets or at Wal-mart or at the local schools or here at Dunkin Donuts, At Fort Leonard Wood in MO where I'm currently stationed (home for the Holidays right now though) everyone has an assault rifle, there everywhere, in the barracks, in the chow hall, everywhere but I have yet to see a shooting there either, I know I'm just preaching to the choir but I really doubt the "assault" weapons are the problem actually I know they are not but thats not the point.

 

[Robert Hairless]

There's a trick to hiring a statistician, accountant, chief financial officer, or anyone else who manages numbers. Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire, surely knows this trick.

When you interview candidates just ask "How much is 2 + 2?"

Then hire the first one who looks you straight in the eyes and asks "What would you like it to be?"

At any rate, I think it's wonderful that the homicide rate in those cities have declined so dramatically. There's no need now to spend any more tax money hunting down "illegal" guns. Let's give a rousing cheer for Mayors Bloomberg and Daley, then move on to other ways to harrass people and keep them in line.

 

[iiibdsiil]

Well, next time I get pulled over in Miami and they ask me why I need a gun in my car, I'll be sure to let them know Mr. Willie Moreno informed me that there are thugs in Miami with assault weapons that fire 20 rounds a second! We'll see how hard the cop laughs at that one...

 

[buy guns]

Of course the crime in Chicago will go down when you knock down the projects and force the residents to move into the south suburbs. My town sure as hell does not have the same population of people it did 5 years ago.

 

[scout26]

Wait a second, wait a second. The Brady's, VPC, etc. have been tellilng me that since the AWB expired, "Shoot First" laws have been passed that there's guns and blood in the streets.

Were they not telling the truth ???

 

[scout26]

And I also sent an E-mail to the Miami PD asking how many homicides were comitted with fully automatic firearms as described by Mr. Moreno.

If I get an answer, I'll post it here.

 

[Davo]

Even L.A. is seeing the same thing. Most of the population that commits most of the homicides cannot afford to live near downtown. They are moving inland.

I see youve met my neighbors.

 

[stevereno1]

Illinois and New York are so far to the left that they have become irrelevant in the political scheme of things. Just as the south has reddened it's Redness. A few states are left that are truly "swing states" and they are who decides national elections.