Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey and other city officials told state lawmakers that gun violence has reached epidemic proportions in Nebraska's largest city.So what are you getting for your membership, Mike?
City Councilman Jim Suttle said creating jobs, particularly in the manufacturing sector, would get prospective gang members off the streets.
I don't suppose you've considered that some of these guys are so scary they're a danger to have around, Jim? Why not hire them to do some chores around your house? Maybe the wife can bring them out a tray of lemonade? Or give them city jobs where they hang around you all day?
Say...here's an idea!
I also like how the "Authorized Journalists" at the AP provide a list of organizations at the end of their piece composed solely of organizations that have utterly failed to provide solutions.
Omaha. Isn't that where some people were killed by a gunman in the gun-free mall? Carried a SHOTGUN stuffed down his pants leg, if I recall correctly.
ReplyDeleteI believe he was "known to police," as they say. A record of threats and violence, maybe?
I read the stories of terrified people hiding in clothes racks, trying to be invisible.
He would have seen ME. I saw a cool photo. A semi-auto pistol has these words around the muzzle: "SMILE. Wait for flash."
I sat through hours of this public hearing, and even better than "All they need is JOBS!" was Senator (not for much longer) Ernie Chambers blaming it all on "rich white people" keeping the black man down.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, and gun manufacturers are directly responsible for guns used in crimes on the street.
The Von Maur shooter used an AKM. I know somebody who was there but left his Sig .40 locked in his car per mall rules. He could have taken the shot. Still bothers him.
> The Von Maur shooter used an AKM.
ReplyDelete...wasn't it an SKS?