At least six people were shot in four separate incidents, including one fatal shooting, Saturday night, police said.
A man was shot in the stomach in the 400 block of N. Luzerne Avenue in East Baltimore at about 5 p.m., Detective Jeremy Silbert, a police department spokesman, said.
Several hours later, at about 9:30 p.m., and less than three miles away, another man was shot in the chest and killed in 1900 block of Washington Street, Silbert said.
At about the same time, another man was shot in the Northwest area of the city at Park Heights and Woodland avenues, several blocks south of Pimlico Race Course. The victim was shot in the back.
A half hour later, about 10 p.m., police were called to the 1300 N. Montford Ave. in East Baltimore, where Silbert said three people were shot. He did not have any information about their conditions but said police are looking into the possibility of a fourth victim who walked into an area hospital.
Shouldn't gun owners feel a slight twinge when they read stuff like this, knowing that all those guns started out legally owned and somehow slipped into the hands of criminals?
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
"Shouldn't gun owners feel a slight twinge when they read stuff like this, knowing that all those guns started out legally owned and somehow slipped into the hands of criminals?"
ReplyDeleteI feel the urge to avoid Baltimore. Thanks to gun control, I cannot have a gun there but obviously criminals can.
The logic escapes gunloons.
ReplyDeleteThey believe the answer to gun violence is more guns. Which will mean more guns in the hands of criminals causing gunloons to demand still more guns. Which will mean...
--JadeGold
I second FWM's comment.
ReplyDeleteI feel safer where I am, where there is no criminal/government monopoly on force.
And statistically, I am safer.
Az Red lives in the garden city of Oklahoma City. Yet the murder rate in OK City is 25% higher than the national average and the violent crime rate is 25%-50% higher as well.
ReplyDeleteAs I've noted many times before--if you live in gun paradises like New Orleans, you aren't statistically safer. And you're statistically safer in NYC than OK City.
Why is that?
--JadeGold
There Jade, I fixed it for you. Now it makes sense.
ReplyDeleteThe logic escapes the anti-freedom loons.
They believe the answer to gun violence is more gun control. Which will mean more guns in the hands of criminals causing anti-gun loons to demand still more gun control. Which will mean...more gun deaths at the hands of gun control which is a proven failure every place it is tried.
Let me see, JadeGold says more guns is the problem, while FWM says more gun control is the problem.
ReplyDeleteWell, if we're talking about gun violence in places like Baltimore and Chicago, I think JadeGold is right.
If we're talking about inconveniencing gun owners in Ohio, I guess I agree with FatWhiteMan.