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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36618 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36618 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Unbelievable. :-O Maryland's highest court limits use of ballistics evidence at trials. Only in the land of the gun. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30981 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Unbelievable. :-O Finger prints are about ready to be thrown out as conclusive evidence, so I'm not surprised by this narrow ruling. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36618 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
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Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30981 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36618 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
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Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3332 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
Keeping the morgue and funeral homes busy... Chicago shootings: At least 29 shot, 8 fatally, in weekend gun violence across city, police say Half of the shootings occurred in just two police districts: Harrison, which surrounds Garfield Park on the West Side; and Deering, which covers parts of McKinley Park, Bridgeport, Back of the Yards and Brighton Park. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36618 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36618 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36618 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36618 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36618 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36618 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Two people killed and nine injured in series of shootings across New York City. Boy, 7, is fatally shot in the head by stray bullet after fight breaks out over jet skis in Florida. "Insanity" is certainly the right word to describe it all. 'Insanity': 4th of July weekend shootings across US kill 13 dead, injure more than 80. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30981 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
More than a dozen mass shootings in the 4 day holiday. https://www.aol.com/news/july-4-gun-violence-14-165422389.html https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/last-72-hours?sort=desc&order=%23%20Victims%20Injured |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3332 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
Making Al Capone look like an amateur 73 people shot, 11 fatally, over July Fourth weekend in Chicago that began and ended with mass attacks Nearly half of the people shot were in just three police districts: Deering and Englewood on the South Side, and Chicago Lawn on the Southwest Side. |
Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1136 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 |
I have a question. The right to bear arms is closely linked to America's founding history, enshrined in the Constitution. It's not a new phenomenon. But I have the gut feeling that today there are many more irresponsible, careless, maybe criminals who carry guns, but don't know how to handle them safely. Has this always been a problem or is this a more recent phenomenon, since maybe 10 or 20 years? I don't remember hearing that many reports of incidents when I was young. But the internet didn't exist then either. Is there a summary somewhere of the history of how this problem came about? It is always easy as a European to shake your head at such incidents. But we are no better: We Germans are emotionally attached to driving without a speed limit on the autobahn. If a speed limit (120 or 130 km/h / 75, 80 mph)) is temporarily imposed on sections due to a high number of accidents, then accidents, injured and deaths drop sharply there. Nevertheless, the speed limit has to be lifted two or three years later if the reason no longer applies. That will never change, no matter which party governs. [EDIT:] I handled guns and rifles in my army days. My dad was a cop, he kept his service gun at home after 1990. I'm no stranger to guns. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21129 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
It's the recent phenomena of the NRA getting political?... Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30981 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
https://www.historynet.com/a-tale-of-two-lawmen-in-muddy-bloody-mining-towns/ In that era Tombstone hosted the infamous shootout near the O.K. Corral and other encounters involving the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, Luke Short, Milt Joyce, Buckskin Frank Leslie and others. Bodie was even more on the wild side, witnessing 70 shooting incidents and nearly 30 murders between 1878 and 1882, which translates to a homicide rate 10 times that of present-day Chicago. |
Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1136 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 |
https://www.historynet.com/a-tale-of-two-lawmen-in-muddy-bloody-mining-towns/I don't meant Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Gun violence at the frontier of (western) civilization is understandable. But what about the 'old' civilized cities: Philadelphia, Providence RI, Baltimore, maybe New Orleans in the 1930s, ... , 1950s? |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30981 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
https://www.historynet.com/a-tale-of-two-lawmen-in-muddy-bloody-mining-towns/I don't meant Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Gun violence at the frontier of (western) civilization is understandable. But what about the 'old' civilized cities: Philadelphia, Providence RI, Baltimore, maybe New Orleans in the 1930s, ... , 1950s? Ah, Prohibition, Al Capone and his band with the Tommy guns? I'd think from the 1940's through the 1950's just about everyone had seen enough blood albeit a lot of it Japanese, German and Korean so that might be a lull period. Of course some other major events happened in the USA starting in the 1960's. One being the Miranda Warning. Another being the (temporary) end of Capital Punishment. And you can't forget the Civil Rights movement. The USA has always been a violent place. Perhaps far more than continentals could understand. I think we have been in a long term down trend until very recently, when our political leaders started talking about games and winning at all cost. That spiked violence again. Never mind our idiot institution in DC that thinks we are still in the 1780's. Perhaps https://www.theviolenceproject.org/ and https://www.splcenter.org/ may have some data and background material for you to peruse and links to rabbit holes to jump in. |
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