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I merely voiced my opinion.

rmrd0000 — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 21:23:09 +0000

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I merely voiced my opinion. You voice yours. I see no problem.

Meta again.

artappraiser — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 21:19:17 +0000

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artappraiser — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 21:18:11 +0000

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Meta again.

I see you are still kvetching on this point elsewhere on this site: I’m not sure what this article contains that hasn’t been stated before

So I will respond. My answer is as I stated above:

I had never seen the problem stated so clearly

He did in one very striking paragraph what Glanton takes a long ranty rambling article which also is loaded with defensive angry resentment pointed towards the reader right at the start via the headline, i.e. how dare you think we don't know what the problem is?

Further, I mentioned that he probably got his succinctness from boots on the ground giving him very clear lectures on the situation. I didn't figuring it all out to him.

Good writing matters,that's often my reason for sharing links: good writers deserve more clicks. We need better communication in this country, it's important. Not stuff that's extra loaded with past resentments that have to be decoded and that may turn some people off right away or make their eyes glaze over.

Good writing matters also seems to be the case with NCD and Lulu on another thread. Lulu takes it personally. I then wonder if Lulu would take it personally if NCD said he didn't like a certain movie as much as Lulu did.

Cavaet: I post bad writing when I feel it needs to be decoded, that we can learn something from the bad.

I’m not sure what this

rmrd0000 — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 17:29:39 +0000

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I’m not sure what this article contains that hasn’t been stated before

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/glanton/ct-trump-scott-violence-glanton-20170202-column.html

Even Al Sharpton realized that there were no easy solutions to the problem.

Yeah, the "unintended

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 16:25:34 +0000

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Yeah, the "unintended consequences" is seriously important. People forget that with complex problems, chance of failure is quite high, as is making the problem worse. Those out of power can be critical with no risk.

I was just struck by the

artappraiser — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:46:44 +0000

In reply to How to stop the Chicago massacre

I was just struck by the succinct realist sounding excerpt I posted, I had never seen the problem stated so clearly, seemingly without much spin at all. I couldn't remember whether he was a conservative, didn't even bother to. He clearly got that from boots on the ground people, maybe it's wrong, but I thought it worth sharing for that.

These stories are heart

HSG — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:45:53 +0000

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These stories are heart-breaking. I credit Michael Gerson - a conservative Christian - for writing this one.

There has been a decrease in

rmrd0000 — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:36:29 +0000

In reply to How to stop the Chicago massacre

There has been a decrease in homicides in Chicago, but obviously the decrease is not enough.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/01/us/chicago-homicide-shooting-statistics/index.html

This article from the Chicago Tribune gives a more historic al context for the homicide rates over the last 60 years. Joblessness, the intentional placement of a highway to fragment the black community, any antagonism between Chicago police and the black community play major roles.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-history-of-chicago-homicides-htmlstory.html

Yes, this is a certain level

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 08:12:55 +0000

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Yes, this is a certain level of hypocrisy on the left - while we'll get outraged over school shootings, we'll resist the idea that there are still slums - black slums principally - that have horrible murder problems, that need some serious remedy past accepting the status quo. (can't blame this one on lead)

What was the big statement about this in 2016? Slamming the white female Dem candidate for using the term "superpredator" 20 years prior. Would it be okay to call Niklas Cruz a "superpredator", or would that be an insult to his Hispanic parents? My, we're so careful and PC. Meantime, over 600 murders a year in Chicago - that's like 25 Parkland shootings a year, 2 a month. Where's our urgency, our lie-down-on-Chicago-mayor's-lawn about that, our focus on coming up with practical ways to lower numbers of awful killings? Sometimes we just suck.

And does "Parkland" strike anyone else as an ironic name like Banksy's "Dismaland"?