Latino gang members were hunting for black people in the Harbor Gateway community of Los Angeles.I guess carry permits weren't a factor, either, since you can't get one if you're not politically connected in LA County.
Age was not a factor. Neither was gender.
[Via Avg Joe]
All together now: "Permeets? We don't need no steenkeen permeets!"
ReplyDeleteThen why do WE?
Notice the authorities want money from Hollywood to make up for all those movies that "glamorized gangs."
Those films play in El Salvador and Honduras much? Which came first, the gangs or the movies?
The authorities know these people, and know them well. The gangs are PROUD of what they do. At least let the people have a fighting chance. The gangs use gun laws for rolling papers.
As long as the people accept it, nothing will change. They are at the bottom of an upside-down pyramid of Power. Gangs and government have it, the People die for lack of it.
L.A. Deputy District Attorney Cathryn Brougham says "anything less than the death penalty is not justice."
ReplyDeleteOnly she's talking about Juan Alvarez, who three years ago parked his SUV on train tracks in a suicide attempt, but changed his mind and ran. The collision derailed the train which hit two others and killed 11 people and injured 180.
Gang members, though, need rec centers and help finding jobs. Oh, yeah.
Sort CCW's in LA by zip code and you will find the vast bulk of them in places like Beverly Hills. Lots of crime there.
ReplyDeleteLook at Compton or SE LA, etc. No CCW's, obviously no crime the Only Ones can't handle.
By result it is a racist and classist outcome. Just as LA concealed carry gun bans started out in the early 1900's. Now, the laws read broadly, but the result is the same.
Can't bring up the link. Have you new information?
No, old info in the KeepAndBearArms.com archive. For some reason that site has been down all day.
ReplyDelete"Sort CCW's in LA by zip code and you will find the vast bulk of them in places like Beverly Hills. Lots of crime there.
ReplyDeleteLook at Compton or SE LA, etc. No CCW's, obviously no crime the Only Ones can't handle. "
The same is true in MA.
Boston, Brockton, Roxsbury, Lynn, very low rates of lawful firearm ownership (according to FIDs issued) in the neighborhood of <2% in my town 7.5%. Crimes of violence commited with firearms in Brockton, or Boston (Boston has .7% firearm ownership rate practically nil rate of LTC), etc with its "low firearm ownership rates"?; record high levels of violent crimes involving firearms.
Crimes of violence committed in my town (or similar towns) with TEN TIMES the rate of gun ownership of Boston? Hardly any.
Tell me again how peaceable citizens owning firearms lead to higher rates of violent crimes involving firearms....
Interactive map of FID licenses in MA by town 2006 & 2007
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http://www.boston.com/news
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