Baltimore: 16 shot in 14 days

[chsnprodigy]

Hello,
I just want to bring something up that irritated me this morning while getting ready for work at 4:25am. While watching the news they reported that 16 deaths (shootings) have happened in 14 days in Baltimore City. Every time I think about SB281 it really irritates me that its not working and this is proof. It irritates me that the people who wrote SB281 dont understand that criminals are criminals because they dont follow the law. Ok im done.

 

[Kman]

Stay classy Baltimore!

 

[Jim12]

They need to revoke each of the shooters' HQL's. Problem solved.

 

[Ellegon]

Then you'll love this http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-guns-md-20140113,0,243774.story
They go on to blame gun owners and dealers for the problem.

 

[abean4187]

Even if SB281 worked, it would be years before Maryland saw any positive results. Likewise, even if SB281 prevented any new illegal guns from coming in, which it won’t since MD is surrounded on all sides by free states, it would be years before the police could take all the illegal guns off the street.

Anyone claiming that SB281 worked or didn’t work at this point is just making stuff up. The law has only been in effect for three months. No three month old program is going to heavily reduce the number of crimes in Maryland.

 

[danb]

look on the bright side: Batts and the BPD is reporting that gangs are getting more accurate (I am not making that up). Most of the 16 were execution-style killings. That means fewer innocent bystanders.

 

[bobbowmossberg]

Then you'll love this http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-guns-md-20140113,0,243774.story
They go on to blame gun owners and dealers for the problem.

Very Shitty article. I tell you!

 

[sbmike]

Even if SB281 worked, it would be years before Maryland saw any positive results. Likewise, even if SB281 prevented any new illegal guns from coming in, which it won’t since MD is surrounded on all sides by free states, it would be years before the police could take all the illegal guns off the street.

Anyone claiming that SB281 worked or didn’t work at this point is just making stuff up. The law has only been in effect for three months. No three month old program is going to heavily reduce the number of crimes in Maryland.

Valid points but isn't the real question, as it always has been, at what point... ever... is any part of FSA2013 going to prevent these types of crimes anytime in the future? But, of course, it's for the children.

 

[engine42410]

Activate the purge, that will stop crime in the state of maryland. Watch the movie the purge and you will see the postive effect it will have.

 

[Mr H]

Been a lot more "shot" than just the 16... no, 17... wait, I think I heard another...

In any case... Bodymore is a cesspit.

 

[DoubleTap007]

What upsets me more, is that with a known high crime rate, they still require good and substantial reason for a carry permit. This is the true crime here.

 

[Ragnar]

Where can you find statistics on number of people shot, not just killed?

 

[Ellegon]

If that article wasn't enough try this one...http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/op...d-gun-backlog-letter-20140114,0,1156639.story
Watch your blood pressure.

 

[Mr H]

This is a Vinny DeMarco opinion piece, so TIFWIW...

As the Sun article pointed out, there has been a drastic decline in handgun purchases in Maryland since the new law went into effect, and the Maryland State Police are doing a very good job of implementing it.

Laughable, of course...

This only takes into account the "HQL-Era" processing, completely ignoring the backlog.

 

[swinokur]

Well, I wonder if any were shot with banned long guns?

I feel so much safer now.

 

[Uncle Duke]

What upsets me more, is that with a known high crime rate, they still require good and substantial reason for a carry permit. This is the true crime here.

Yep! Their continued insistance upon ignoring the facts of today's dangerous realities in favor of their utopian and self serving agenda is nothing short of criminal negligence as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Brychan]

If 16 people have been shot & killed, how many have been shot total? Also how many murdered by other means?

 

[FrankZ]

I wonder if the Sun investigated whether the guns in the Baltimore City jail were purchased and processed through background checks? Did the inmates all apply for HQLs?

The fact that people excising their rights broke the system shows the system is flawed.

 

[eruby]

Baltimore: 16 shot in 14 days

I'm very sorry if any law-abiding citizens were among the body count.

The thugs, scumbags and miscreants? Not so much.

 

[Mr H]

I wonder if the Sun investigated whether the guns in the Baltimore City jail were purchased and processed through background checks? Did the inmates all apply for HQLs?

The fact that people excising their rights broke the system shows the system is flawed.

Point of clarification...

The State is excising our Rights... We the People just want to exercise them!!

ex·cise ik-sahyz
verb (used with object), ex·cised, ex·cis·ing.
1. to expunge, as a passage or sentence, from a text.
2. to cut out or off, as a tumor.