MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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[CRIME NEWS] Crime is number one concern for black adults
By artappraiser on Sun, 04/17/2022 - 3:36pm |
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https://twitter.com/PeterMoskos/status/1515170739791568899
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^ the link above goes to a whole thread. I just want to add that he included this on it:
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/17/2022 - 3:38pm
edit to add: reporting on this Syracuse shooting is not included in the above article:
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/17/2022 - 7:52pm
on the Columbia SC mall shooting Sat. with 14 injured. I think it would be dumb to censor this first tweet - think people should be aware of the way many people are reacting-
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/17/2022 - 7:07pm
But you see, he's special because he's Black, and we have too many Black men in jail and prison so we have to let some stay out and that will fix everything?!
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/17/2022 - 9:12pm
Here's more on the shooting of 9 at a Furman SC nightclub early Easter morning:
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/17/2022 - 7:13pm
Here's more on the Pittsburgh mass shooting early Easter morning at a house party, 11 shot, 2 juveniles dead
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/17/2022 - 7:25pm
NYTimes on the Pittsburgh "party" that drew 200 people, many of them underage, to an Airbnb rental. As many as 50 rounds were fired, the authorities said.....there was evidence of multiple weapons at the scene...
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/18/2022 - 12:19am
here's more on the Indianapolis Easter shooting mentioned on the map in News Nation Now article:
it wasn't a mass shooting at a party, but not to worry, they had one of those last weekend:
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/17/2022 - 7:34pm
Philadelphia in a race to equal what's going on in Ukraine while city council votes on Ukraine:
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/17/2022 - 3:50pm
Philly update, racking em up (surely beating Kyiv?)
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/17/2022 - 8:47pm
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by artappraiser on Sun, 04/17/2022 - 4:37pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/17/2022 - 5:11pm
other updates on famous cases:
(if you read the article, it is because psychiatrists are working on the right drugs for him and convinced the judge that they need more time to do that)
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/17/2022 - 5:18pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/17/2022 - 5:12pm
The above tweets have caused a lot of ruckus as one can imagine. Here's one example:
Here's another:
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/17/2022 - 5:45pm
Finally have a mugshot for the triple murder suspect in the Georgia gun range case; honestly was waiting on it until I posted the rest of the news! Sad but true situation that if they don't reveal the race, everyone starts reading racial stories into such an arrest!
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/17/2022 - 5:58pm
Police have confirmed what was only a rumor about the death of rapper Archie Ebersol on my last Crime News thread: he was shot and killed by his brother (therefore it would make sense his family didn't want to talk about it):
meanwhile looks like team sports world going nuts honoring him; here's one example, he's a "hometown hero":
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/17/2022 - 6:36pm
but wait, there's more from rap world:
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/18/2022 - 4:46am
I would add: mostly since summer 2020.
Edit to add a rather thought-provoking reply to Mr. King:
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/17/2022 - 8:55pm
Ed Latimore ("Former Heavyweight boxer (13-1-1)" and "bestselling author of Sober Letters to My Drunken Self") just retweeted this Jan. 28 tweet
I don't pretend to know the exact reason why except that I suspect it is applicable here somehow.
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/17/2022 - 11:40pm
hey, it's only been a week and you could care less about us in Cedar Rapids and our mass shooting (2 killed, 10 injured, one black man arrested on charge of killing one, still an open hunt)
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/18/2022 - 12:29am
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/18/2022 - 12:44am
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/18/2022 - 12:45am
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/18/2022 - 12:56am
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/18/2022 - 1:01am
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/18/2022 - 1:39am
Chicago still beyond pitiful - too often there literally is no law nor order
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/18/2022 - 2:19am
Just legalize drugs, it'll be ok.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 04/18/2022 - 2:47am
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/18/2022 - 3:07pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/18/2022 - 3:40pm
lots of links there to all the local news updates on the mass shooting, it's almost like "live" coverage
they have this photo of one of the boys killed WPXI - Jaiden Brown Jaiden Brown, 17, was one of the teens killed in a mass shooting in Pittsburgh on Easter Sunday. (Courtesy of Jaiden Brown's family)
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/18/2022 - 3:50pm
Iowa nightclub shooting: 2nd suspect arrested after 2 killed, 10 hurt in Cedar Rapids
Iowa nightclub shooting: 2nd suspect arrested after 2 killed, 10 hurt in Cedar Rapids The Cedar Rapids Police Department announced Monday that U.S. Marshals arrested Dimione Jamal Walker, 29, on first-degree murder and weapons charges in connection with the incident, which occurred April 10 at the Taboo Night Club. (Chicago Police Department)
By Michelle Ewing, Cox Media Group National Content Desk, @ WPXI.com, April 18, 2022 at 3:29 pm EDT
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/18/2022 - 3:56pm
I really wonder how long before we see the conspiracy theory that BLM is really a false cover organization for racists to get Blacks to buy guns and kill and maim a lot of Black youth? So, you know, there will be fewer of them coming up to register to vote?
To be honest, I really can't see Lindsey Graham getting all that upset if a lot of Black constituents in SC continue to kill and maim one another.
And what happened to all those angry white male mass shooters, where did they go?
Just sayin'.
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/18/2022 - 4:07pm
p.s. and hey, why not let all the Black male felons out on bail, bond and early parole if they're not going to hurt white people?
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/18/2022 - 4:12pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/20/2022 - 8:33pm
White men aren't really part of the show anymore, so there's no reason for them to bug out? That's my guess.
People like Tucker Carlson assume that means "the end of men" but there's a lot of freedom when the world stops paying attention to you.
Also, artappraiser, not to harp on an old topic, but a lot of faux disorders that were previously marketed at young white men and were treated with heavy pharmaceuticals are now being targeted at people of color. I will suggest a correlation, as it's been a trend for the past few years.
The spin on marketing over the past few years has been that these disorders are underdiagnosed in women and people of color generally, thus making getting diagnosed with a mental disorder or learning disability almost sound like a privilege that only white people previously enjoyed.
by Orion on Mon, 04/18/2022 - 11:25pm
re: antidepressants - whatever might be the correlation, it would be tiny compared to this elephant in the fucking room and therefore doesn't mean much:
Guns in America: Nearly 40 million guns were purchased legally in 2020 and another 4.1 million bought in January
Douglas A. McIntyre, 24/7 Wall Street, FEB. 10, 2021
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/19/2022 - 1:13am
p.s. it's really beyond me to see smart people go out of their way to blame anything beyond the fucking elephant in the room; BLACK LIVES MATTER 2020 PROTESTS TO DEFUND AND/OR ABOLISH POLICE WITH ASSOCIATED RIOTS, LOOTING AND OTHER CIVIL UNREST DURING A PANDEMIC when nobody knew what was going to happen.
Any logical person might at least consider buying a gun to protect oneself if there weren't going to be any police around and people would soon be stealing what they wanted from houses, or right off your body, not just stores next time. All the more reason for the already criminally minded and those equating power with guns and killing (the rap world for example) to find gun ownership and absolute necessity? People were being attacked for being middle class eating in outdoor restaurants and for having houses in formely poor neighborhoods for chris sake, government buildings were being burned to the ground.
Why o why at this point are people so hesitant to blame BLM / George Floyd 2020 anti-police protests for the predicament we are now in with 8 gazillion more guns out there and shrugs about everyone using them because according to The Woke you know police are always worse
BLM PROTESTS IN 2020 DURING A PANDEMIC WERE THE CAUSE, it's just so obvious: MASSIVE GROWTH in gun ownership with everyone being okay with that because police were pulling back and prosecutors were pulling back , fewer of them want those jobs (who would?!!!) at the same time LOTS OF CRIMINALS BEING LET OUT EARLY because of covid and JUDICIAL SYSTEM BASICALLY ON HIATUS...
To even begin to staunch the tide now: Woke anti-police and anti-prison talk has to be ridiculed, ruthlessly. Young people need to go back to FEARING, yes fearing, police, the law and the courts. It's too late to do it a nicer way, precisely because we let a ton more guns out there and we are never going to get those back and until more people start feeling they don't need them, the gap for those who can''t get one by buying second hand or stealing will now be filled with ghost guns.
There is no alternative now, the guns are out there: law and order and respect for it has to be real tough, and give a shit about your poverty or problems, solving those come after a secured society. Security is the # 1 reason civilization exists, everything else comes after that.
We do have to go back to the Dick Tracy model,where the cops are the good guys and the robbers are the bad guys and I am very sorry that BLM fucked this all up for people of color but they did, they really really did. Blame them, one of the worst most counterproductive protest movements of all times, of all times.
If you want an example of how quickly civilization can devolve to good guys vs. bad guys you can check out Ukraine right now, it's not a video game, it really can happen and right quick.
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/19/2022 - 1:23am
To be fair pandemic in jails/prisons and fears of such + infected/out-sick staff & guards & police likely pushed some of the stupider early paroles and no charges for petty crime laws that feed the increase in streetcrime and lawlessness, not just the BLM protests/woke socialist encampments in Portland/Seattle. However, turning up heat on police no doubt lowers their willingness to take chances for a more hostile public, esp. in areas where they'll be viewed thru a racism prism - like most crimeridden areas.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 04/19/2022 - 1:30am
yes, I mention that, it is a part of the perfect storm during a pandemic. But what threw it over the top, really, be honest: protests, looting and rioting against police and law and order itself! (Many places are still having a very hard time hiring, who wants that job? anyone sane?)
Without those protests, the pandemic problem of reducing the prison and jail population during the pandemic would have been a much smaller effect because there would still be respect for law and order. The raison d'etre of the protests was to degrade the respect for law and order system we had. They really shouldn't have been allowed in a pandemic! Not at all! With many downtowns empty and unprotected. And first responders of all kinds out sick. Martial law type situation was called for, really, no protests, NONE, cause: police are busy with a pandemic. And we allowed bored white kids with dreams of anarchism to let loose cause no nightclubs were open to distract them. The professional looters moved in pronto, they could see the opportunity: collapse of law and order.
Trump loved every minute protests were allowed in blue cities.
Coachella is going on right now. THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT IN A COUNTRY WITH A LOT OF GUNS. YOU HAVE "POLICING" No protesting about the "policing". IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, YOU STAY HOME.
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/19/2022 - 1:52am
speaking of metal detectors:
edit to add: by the way, before I could find a tweet quote of this story without commentary, after searching for it by article title, I had to scroll past a whole lot of educated left types tweeting the story basically with the comment "WE WARNED YOU HE WAS DUMB". Way to win friends and influence people? NOT. More like a way to antagonize working class people who see that all the rich people in NYC have them in their skyscrapers and airports as do institutions like courts and large high schools.
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/19/2022 - 3:51pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/19/2022 - 12:18am
social workers could do this too
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/19/2022 - 2:36am
"Syracuse" trending on Twitter, this is it, judge for yourselves:
(don't know anything about the situation, i.e., don't even know if it is about a bag of chips)
a reminder from the top of the thread, this is what Syracuse Police Chief Kenton Buckner looks like
and here is more about him
https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2022/03/syracuse-police-chief-kenton-buckner-finalist-for-job-on-west-cost.html
where it mentions this
Mayor Walsh is an Independent who won re-election six months ago, defeated Democratic challenger Khalid Bey with over 60% of the vote.
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/19/2022 - 1:47pm
Where's their white privilege?
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/19/2022 - 4:46pm
Not a crime, just non-Charlton-Heston millennial types promoting gun culture,
I note the guy in the booth next to them is Black.
Seems to me that the old school NRA crochety old white guy is history. They're gone!
Politically, guns are no longer an old white guy thing, nor are they a "red state" thing, nor are they a rural thing. To talk otherwise is just to mark yourself as old, clueless and out of touch. (The guy upthread complaining that the SC nightclub should not be described as "rural" was correct.)
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/19/2022 - 5:01pm
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by artappraiser on Wed, 04/20/2022 - 3:31am
I do in fact clearly remember the suggestion on a dagblog thread that since traffic police are incurably racist, that we should have cameras doing that work, as if it wasn't really that important of a community service
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/20/2022 - 3:30am
Mountain bikers being robbed at gunpoint in Oakland hills: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/thieves-target-Bay-Area-bikers-17...
by Orion on Wed, 04/20/2022 - 5:43am
Louisiana woman stabbed to death on Facebook Live after ‘drug binge’: cops
By Mark Lungariello @NYPost.com, April 19, 2022 7:44pm
per a report.AP/Baton Rouge Police Department
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/20/2022 - 1:39pm
Justice for Black philanthropist - lock him up forever, not rehabilitable: Man who pleaded guilty to killing philanthropist Jacqueline Avant is sentenced to 190 years to life in prison
By Taylor Romine, CNN, Published 10:22 PM EDT, Tue April 19
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/20/2022 - 1:54pm
Accused SC mall shooter connected to 2018 fatal shooting
by Marcus Flowers @ Wach.com, Sunday, April 17th 2022
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/20/2022 - 2:13pm
what a surprise NOT - look what Washington State Senate Republicans are tweeting
and what are they talking about in St. Louis?
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/20/2022 - 2:24pm
in Indianapolis:
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/20/2022 - 2:56pm
meanwhile in NYC, D.O.J. is urgently instructing Mayor Adams that he needs to get going cleaning up Rikers and probably make new jails if he's going to continue with his plans:
who wants to work at Rikers? Nobody, I'd venture a guess... (hence, "catch and release")
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/20/2022 - 3:04pm
heart-wrencher on the aftermath of letting mentally ill wander the streets and attack asian-featured people with rocks:
(perp did it several times, look it up....)
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/20/2022 - 3:08pm
Denver: 10 gang members indicted on 114 felony counts, 1 suspect at large
by: Colleen Flynn..@ kdvr.com, Updated: Apr 19, 2022 / 12:57 PM MDT
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/20/2022 - 3:44pm
^ is a result of the federal government involvement in urban crime started, like it or not-reality bites sometimes, under THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION (with direct involvement by BILL BARR among others) while a lot of Democrats were supporting "defund police" protests and even anarchists attacking Federal property and agents in places like Portland and burning of cities like Kenosha
Monday, December 21, 2020
U.S. Department Of Justice Recognizes Colorado Task Force With National Achievement Award In Support Of Project Safe Neighborhoods
RAVEN Receives National Outstanding Partnership/Task Force Award
are some Republicans and Trump supporters gonna talk about this in campaigns for Nov. 2022 campaigns? You betcha!
There's one thing about the local Dems in Denver, I do distinctly recall them being quite unfriendly to out-of-state BLM "protesters", the mayor announcing something like "go home, you are not welcome here" just after a night of black block types just breaking windows in the downtown area, before things ramped up at all. If only more blue cities had done "sister souljah" like attacks on the agitators in 2020 instead of allying with them, they might not be blamed so much now for high crime.
But nooo, instead of supporting Fed and local projects like this, most blue city governments were supporting dissing law enforcement as racist and supporting defunding it and letting gang bangers out on the streets in the name of a supposed racist judicial system. All basically because of emotional reaction to what happened to one man (Geo. Floyd) and one viral video and lots of hype about police abuse stories while totally disregarding actual facts about the number of police abuse victims vs. the massively larger number of victims of minority crime.
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/20/2022 - 3:51pm
Rapper A$AP Rocky arrested in connection with 2021 shooting @ Twitter events, 2 hrs. ago
A$AP Rocky was arrested on Wednesday morning at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in connection with a November 2021 shooting in Hollywood. The 33-year-old rapper, whose given name is Rakim Mayers, was taken into custody on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, according to a news release from the Los Angeles Police Department.
right wing newspaper right at the top of the feed
then there's Fox
and pop news after...
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/20/2022 - 4:33pm
^ a reminder why this is extra big news, he is Rihanna's baby daddy and he's been parading her around to all her photo ops in which she wears fashions that proudly accentuate the baby belly, even leaving it bare sometimes, he's like a Rihanna accessory where you can't totally successfully show off the baby belly without the baby daddy on one arm as well-this has been huge news in Black pop subculture and among fashionistas
here they use one of the Rihanna photo ops
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/20/2022 - 6:12pm
p.s. he did add this:
but it is still worth sharing as it is showing the effect on exposed kids
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/20/2022 - 6:15pm
also you can just substitute Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania for South Africa:
by artappraiser on Thu, 04/21/2022 - 12:56am
Rap and firearms go together like hand and glove? And really, you hardly hear about the NRA anymore...
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/20/2022 - 8:05pm
two more from the lovely world of rap
by artappraiser on Thu, 04/21/2022 - 1:37am
John Pfaff@JohnFPfaff Professor @FordhamLawNYC. Prisons & criminal justice quant. I'm not contrarian–the data is. Author of Locked In, now available. And @Tom_Scott_C Social Scientist in the Center for Policing Research and Investigative Sciences at RTI International. Evaluates crime prevention and law enforcement practices:
edit to add-there is also a comment in there from @JacobKaplanCrim he is Criminologist at Princeton. Knows stuff about #rstats, UCR, NIBRS. PhD from Penn.
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/20/2022 - 11:07pm
also it seems there is no good current nationwide data on felony cases in large urban counties?
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/20/2022 - 11:23pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/20/2022 - 11:12pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 04/21/2022 - 1:18am
here's a bunch more:
by artappraiser on Thu, 04/21/2022 - 1:32am
UM
by artappraiser on Thu, 04/21/2022 - 4:49pm
no words needed for the above; watch it with sound on.
for the below, read it. it's a message from hell, they can try, but shit sometimes doesn't work out and authorities do most often investigate when that happens, seems to me they investigate police a heckuva lot more than crimes lately
edit to add - bad cops do seem to go to jail more frequently than other kinds of criminals lately:
by artappraiser on Thu, 04/21/2022 - 2:15am
fair questions, mho -
by artappraiser on Thu, 04/21/2022 - 2:29pm
I see in Salem, Oregon they clear out a homeless encampment after some of them have been murdered by a drunken driver:
by artappraiser on Thu, 04/21/2022 - 4:23pm
At least 3 people were shot during ‘active threat’ in northwest D.C.
By Michael Balsamo @ AP, via NPR.org, Apr 22, 2022 6:02 PM ED:
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/22/2022 - 8:39pm
edit to add from the above NBC article, the deceased sniper and his guns; note that P.D. twitter thread has lots of updates after that picture
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/22/2022 - 10:52pm
Here's a WaPo video, as I am trying to figure: just where were those social workers?!!! I see at the beginning a Black man and woman running behind a (Black) cop and next to another (Black) cop aiming a rifle sky high. Must be they were running away from the cops, upset they were there. ACAB, no matter what race. I wonder where the violence interrupters in lawn chairs and the BLM community self-government negotiators were, surely they could have wrested the three rifles from the sniper...to like just go to the 5th floor and knock (of course, forced entry would be fascist) and say "please stop shooting". I know they weren't the big team of guys in green uniforms riding on the green van, those were more fascist forces like the cops...abolish em all, they're not needed.
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/22/2022 - 11:55pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/22/2022 - 9:37pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/22/2022 - 10:14pm
missed this one:
update on another
the toxic culture
you're nobody unless you're talking about a court case over violence going on
by artappraiser on Sat, 04/23/2022 - 9:52am
Found dead and discarded in Mozambique - What really happened to Elly Warren?
by Orion on Sat, 04/23/2022 - 3:01pm
The NRA should be proud of them!
Edit to add: then someone called in this kinky gay sex thing, or what?
by artappraiser on Sat, 04/23/2022 - 10:09pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/24/2022 - 10:52am
Dec. 21, 2021: Axios-Ipsos poll: Crime a top worry for Latinos
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/24/2022 - 11:48am
Op-ed NYPost (which, like it or not, working class people tend to prefer to elite info. outlets like the NYTimes) -
Leftists’ anti-police policies have led to a startling number of black, Latino crime victims
By Michael Goodwin April 19, 2022
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/24/2022 - 11:56am
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/24/2022 - 12:25pm
she's running for Congress in VA's 10th district (currently represented by Democrat Jennifer Wexton, who was first elected in 2018), she's currently Prince William Co. supervisor, knows where to show up and tweet about it -
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/24/2022 - 12:38pm
oh look it's the evil NYPD doing social work, not just harassing p.o.c.;, who'd thunk it?
Is this a new thing caused by 2020 protests? Why no, Miz Woke, it's NOT new.
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/24/2022 - 9:24pm
Yes, i recall Officer Stadanko visited the Catholic school to lecture studenta on the dangers of drugs, Sister Mary Elephant presiding.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 04/25/2022 - 5:22pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/25/2022 - 12:40am
^ need for emphasis, Wray said: in 2021, there was a 59% increase in murders of police officers. FBI Director Wray says “an alarming percentage” of the officers killed were killed in ambushes.
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/25/2022 - 12:43am
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/25/2022 - 12:44am
13 yr. old girl -
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/25/2022 - 1:25am
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/25/2022 - 1:31am
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/25/2022 - 2:47am
Cities want to return to prepandemic life, but face an enduring obstacle: Transit crime.
By Julie Bosman, Sophie Kasakove, Jill Cowan and Richard Fausset @ NYTimes.com, April 25
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/25/2022 - 12:07pm
dupe deleted, see below
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/25/2022 - 11:37pm
typical fan commentary on the made-for-60-Minutes Megan Thee Stallion "drama"
here is a summary for those who have not kept up:
(yes I chose Kenosha News on purpose) I swear rap world sells dysfunction or "war" way beyond that of old tyme soap operas, precisely because it ends up real, not fiction.
then I also got this -
by artappraiser on Mon, 04/25/2022 - 10:34pm
one Chicago judge finally convinced to lock an incorrigible up:
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/26/2022 - 3:52pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/26/2022 - 5:07pm
from
are any of the programs that will get this money any good? that's the question
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/26/2022 - 5:15pm
I just don't know if her tactic of blaming "greedy gun lobbyists and lawmaker allies" is going to work that well anymore, though. All of a sudden, in 2020 and 2021, tons of people who never thought about owning guns and weren't into gun manufacturers' marketing went out and bought guns when "defund police" protests and riots became an epidemic during a pandemic. The marketing was furnished by BLM and Covid, actually, the message was: better safe than sorry. Nearly every voter probably knows someone who was a first-time gun buyer if they didn't buy one themself.
And now the Russian invasion of Ukraine has just reinforced the olde NRA/2nd Amendment message that a democracy is not safe unless everyone in it is armed....men there who never owned a gun or used one have now been given a gun and a crash course and told to shoot Russians....
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/26/2022 - 6:38pm
They're not selling guns in stores in Ukraine, are they? IIRC they are distributed to people who have applied and then have been approved to fight for the country.
That's how it is largely done all over the planet. They are a commercial item here and hence the neverending debate that we have.
I'm going to double down on this one. There is not one country on earth that doesn't have guns. There's only one that sells them as a consumer item. That country has mass shootings.
by Orion on Tue, 04/26/2022 - 7:57pm
It's a very good point you make. The question is what to do about it. First, the water over the dam problem - a gazillion guns are now out there in this country and will last a long time and be passed to others. Second, now there is the availability of the option of ghost guns (which may even derail a lot of regulations that worked up to this point in other countries.)
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/26/2022 - 9:51pm
I imagine that there are also a gazillion guns in Israel. Nevertheless, you don't hear about a random person with mental health issues letting rip on a subway platform. Since everyone is required to have military service, Israelis are actually much more likely to have access to a very powerful firearm.
In fact, Palestinian terrorists have to improvize, throwing rocks and creating their own explosives, as they generally don't have access to the things Israelis have. They don't just transfer guns from Israel to Gaza the way someone would from Nevada to California.
The issue really is the sort of market economy and accompanying philosophy that we have in this country. We imprison porn actors for rape and we put mass shooters away but we do nothing to restrain and regulate the society so that those people choose a different avenue because that wouldn't make money. In fact, whatever the penalty is, we give them the tools they want and give them the infamy they seek, all while condemning them and shaking our head.
Capitalism is amoral - it will sell pharmaceuticals that turn someone's brain upside down, guns meant for warfare, and any other manner of items that should be looked at with shame. It will sell freedom fries one decade and wokeism the next. It doesn't give a F.
by Orion on Tue, 04/26/2022 - 11:34pm
I think this is waaaay smart, he is playing the tough boss of police to co-opt the whole ideological hatred of police by the "defund" crowd. No one likes lazy ass public servants not doing their job, especially New Yorkers. This issue, it's a uniter, not a divider. As a skeptical constituent, I am pleased! Very savvy -
by artappraiser on Wed, 04/27/2022 - 3:13pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/29/2022 - 1:00pm
surely social workers could handle this -
by artappraiser on Sat, 04/30/2022 - 1:38am
from above - Felton James Martin of Lafayette was booked with two counts of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted first-degree murder, as well as home invasion and felon in possession of a firearm.
from above - Still wanted is Davieontray Breaux, also of Lafayette. He should be considered armed and dangerous, the chief says. He's wanted on the same charges that Martin was booked with
from the above
by artappraiser on Sat, 04/30/2022 - 2:37am
fake or not, he's obviously proud of it -
by artappraiser on Sat, 04/30/2022 - 2:57am
by artappraiser on Sat, 04/30/2022 - 1:00pm
Madison Ave retailers lock doors in daytime amid crime frenzy
By Kerry J. Byrne @ NYPost.com, April 30, 2022 9:14am
on Madison Ave.Helayne Seidman
by artappraiser on Sat, 04/30/2022 - 1:19pm
dupe deleted, see below
by artappraiser on Sun, 05/01/2022 - 11:03am
by artappraiser on Sun, 05/01/2022 - 11:02am