Soon after gunfire broke out about 8 p.m. along Greenmount Avenue in North Baltimore on Tuesday, city police officers already parked in the area found three victims with gunshot wounds — one of them, a 16-year-old boy, unresponsive.I suppose this is what John Lott and his followers mean be "more guns equals less crime." Or is Baltimore just the exception to the rule?
The boy, identified Wednesday morning as Daniel Pearson, was pronounced dead at a local hospital at 8:22 p.m., according to Detective Vernon Davis, a police spokesman. The two other victims, men ages 33 and 20, were also sent to hospitals and were in stable condition Wednesday morning, police said. Police did not identify the victims.
The triple shooting raised the total number of people shot in the city Tuesday to five, and brought the total number of killings in Baltimore this year to 197, which was the total homicide count for all of 2011. Pearson is the eighth juvenile murder victim.
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To much turkey and wine to let you think today, Mikeb? Baltimore is in Maryland--you do remember that, right? In other words, it's in a state that has a lot of the gun control that you want. In additional other words, it's an example of gun control failure.
ReplyDeleteLott is talking about what happens when good citizens are able to own and carry guns. You knew that, but typically, you're twisting statements and creating outlandish interpretations to make your narrative work.
Yep. According to the excellent Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Maryland is ranked 7th in the nation for the kinds of gun laws that are supposed to end this kind of violence.
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Obviously that only means they'd be that much worse if they enjoyed Arizona-type freedoms.
DeleteBullshit, Mikeb. Can't you recall the recent discussion about rates of violence in Maryland, D.C., and Virginia? Virginia is the lowest, and it's gun laws are the best of the three.
DeleteEven more interesting, both Baltimore and Chicago have most of the gun control laws that gun control proponents want ... and both have very high murder rates with firearms. Clearly gun control laws fail to reduce murders with firearms.
ReplyDeleteOh, based on only two cities in which you've jumped to conclusions about the correlation and causation of gun violence we can judge?
DeleteBut was that not your point in this post? That one city (Baltimore) has murder rates that are increasing, so therefore John Lott must be wrong?
DeleteWell, yeah, I guess it was. But the list of cities with more murders this year than last is growing. Today it's Oakland.
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Baltimore must be made up of a large majority of "fat white men".
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You are consistently using cities that actually support lotts statements as Oakland is in the gun control Mecca of California (the Bay Area) which is the Brady gun control Holy Grail.Very difficult for law abiding citizens to carry and it is straight gang war in Oakland. IE criminals, understaffed police department and law abiding citizens being unable to legally carry to defend yourself. And there is a distinct correlation of the ease of law abiding citizens being able to carry and lower violent crime rates. The causation however is a far murkier far more complicated issue than simply being able to obtain a gun. MikeZ
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