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Flags were lowered to half-staff last week to remember the eight people killed by gun violence at spas in Georgia; and again this week for the 10 people killed in a Boulder, Colo. supermarket. Those crimes and tragedies made national news, and revived painful questions about race, gender and gun violence in America.
Last Saturday, a "peace march" was held in southwest Philadelphia to call for an end to gun violence there.
The marchers gathered not far from where a 15-year-old boy named Antonio Walker had been shot to death a few days before. Police say it was a "random" act of violence. But of course, the loss was direct and devastating to Antonio Walker's friends and family. He was a great track star, and was trying to start his own clothing line. His mother, Nydisha Williams, told local reporters, "I will be mourning for the rest of my life."
Across town that very morning, five people were wounded, and a 29-year-old man was killed, in a neighborhood called Nicetown. Police have not released the name of the man who died. He was shot 14 times.
Last Saturday, a "peace march" was held in southwest Philadelphia to call for an end to gun violence there.
The marchers gathered not far from where a 15-year-old boy named Antonio Walker had been shot to death a few days before. Police say it was a "random" act of violence. But of course, the loss was direct and devastating to Antonio Walker's friends and family. He was a great track star, and was trying to start his own clothing line. His mother, Nydisha Williams, told local reporters, "I will be mourning for the rest of my life."
Across town that very morning, five people were wounded, and a 29-year-old man was killed, in a neighborhood called Nicetown. Police have not released the name of the man who died. He was shot 14 times.
Opinion: The Gun Violence All Around Us
Posted from npr.org
Firearms and Guns
Violence
Crime
Murder
Posted >1 y ago
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No matter whether they pass laws to either take weapons away from the peaceful gun owners or to tax them so it's hard to buy them, criminals are going to have their own weapons that the police don't know about, and the people that are without will be easier targets shipmate PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
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SFC Kelly Fuerhoff
Okay by that "logic" let's just get rid of laws. Right? F* it. People break laws every day - so let's just live in anarchy. That's what I hear when people say "CrImInAlS dOn'T fOlLoW laWs!"
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SPC Les Darbison
SFC Kelly Fuerhoff - No let's just get rid of things like fire extinguishers, seat belts, and bicycle helmets. You really don't need them until it's too late. Just like firearms.
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SPC Les Darbison
SFC Kelly Fuerhoff - Anarchy exist were laws aren't equally enforced. Just think about the riots and looting that happened most of last years. Those neighborhoods destroyed. Some under occupation by those same Ppl. If a foreign country occupied any of our territory that would be a cause for war. Yet we allowed THUGS to infreign on our peaceful citizens communities and take away all of their God given rights and freedoms!
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I fear the two sides are so far apart there may never be a solution to this issue. Especially when we have organizations making money off the status quo.
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The left-sided media dropped covering the Colorado shooting when the perpetrator came from the middle east. And they couldn't blame it on a white man. So they had their fall-back plan lets make more gun laws!
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