Just ducky: focus on gun, not on the crime

[cyclist]

I'm not sure yet where this is going to go, but it appears they are focusing on firearms and not on the crime or lack of personal temper control. I'll have to check their site later today.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=737629

Editorial: Casualties together
One bullet can have many victims, which is why a new campaign to reduce gun violence in metro Milwaukee will attempt to engage everyone in the cause.
From the Journal Sentinel
Posted: April 9, 2008
It starts with angry words and shoves exchanged on a city sidewalk between two teenage boys. Suddenly, one takes out a handgun and pulls the trigger. The boy who has been shot falls backward to the ground in slow motion and, one by one, other people fall as well - a waitress, an office worker, a woman in her kitchen, a priest.

"If we call ourselves a community, maybe it's time we realized gun violence isn't someone else's problem," a woman's voice says. "Eventually, we all feel the impact."

The 30-second public service TV announcement is powerful. Given the gravity of the problem, it had to be. It's part of a larger campaign, to be launched at 1 p.m. Thursday at Discovery World, to motivate everyone in the greater Milwaukee area to get behind efforts to reduce gun violence.

Then, the goal is to educate the community about local programs that already have shown success in reducing firearm violence and to motivate business, community leaders and others to fight this insidious problem by helping to provide jobs, funding and willingness to mentor kids at risk for being victims or perpetrators of violence.

Serve, a nonprofit advertising firm, helped put the One Milwaukee Gun Violence Campaign together with the Milwaukee County district attorney's office, the mayor's office and the Milwaukee Police Department. Impressive coalition. Compelling message. We hope it sinks in.

Visit www.onemilwaukee.org for more information. The Gun Violence Campaign portion of the site will be available after 1 p.m. today.

 

[strat81]

While this discusses a dramatization, I'll ask: Where were these boys' parents, especially their fathers?

 

[armoredman]

I made a couple of posters a while back to address this.

 

[Ash]

Well, I agree that gun crimes need to be reduced. I wholeheartedly agree with that. Gun crimes should be eliminated if possible.

With that in mind, the focus on reducing gun crimes is not the gun, but the finger, as armoredman points out (no pun intended).

Banning the gun, as proven across the world, does not reduce gun crimes (or violence).

Ash

 

[mrokern]

I used to live in Wisconsin. They may love their hunting, but when it comes to practical gun policies and self-defense, they are just as bad of nannies as Illinois, NYC, and California. Actually worse than most in some ways, since they are a no-issue state just like Illinois.

And as someone who grew up in Milwaukee, there are areas in that city you couldn't pay me enough money to set foot in regardless of how well I was armed. But wait, there aren't any carry permits allowed, so it must be safe. :banghead:

-Mark

 

[oldgold]

Armoredman;

Good posters.

My first thought after reading the OP's post is why focus on 'gun' violence and not just plain old violence. Certainly a ball bat or a knife violence is just as bad. To ignore other types of violence leads me to believe they are heading to gun bans instead of the real problem. JMHO

 

[armoredman]

Anyone who wants to use them, may do so.
Ash, I love giving antis the "finger" - it confuses them.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

It starts with angry words and shoves exchanged on a city sidewalk between two teenage boys. Suddenly, one takes out a handgun and pulls the trigger. The boy who has been shot falls backward to the ground in slow motion and, one by one, other people fall as well - a waitress, an office worker, a woman in her kitchen, a priest.

All the others were hit by the bullets? Overdramatizing and exaggerating much?

 

[Kentak]

I'm in favor of registering trigger fingers!

 

[cyclist]

Okay, that onemilwaukee.org site has their gun section active now.
I think they would have been better off if they focused on "violence" instead of on "guns".
They have links leading to the millionmommarch and comments from the Brady Bunch.
Their focus on guns blinds them to all the other crimes, in my opinion.
I'll reserve personal judgement until I see how this plays out functionally.

 

[average_shooter]

Here's the video:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1nZANvUwuWc&