In a tough Philadelphia neighborhood where an off-duty police officer
was shot to death last month, a mother is afraid to walk to the corner
store with her two children. In a Chicago area where 23 people have been
killed by gunfire so far this year, kids don't want to go outside. In
Harlem, a 26-year-old man worries his family will get hit by crossfire.
Residents of inner-city neighborhoods plagued by gun violence say they
feel neglected and ignored even in a presidential election year marked
by highly publicized shootings at a Colorado movie theater, a Sikh
temple in Wisconsin and outside the Empire State Building — a year in
which Republicans have launched a full-throated defense of gun ownership
while Democrats have largely kept quiet about an issue they used to put
front and center.
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2 comments:
The problem is that only the bad guys have guns in these cities. An armed society is a polite society.
Working guns acquired through "gun buy-back" programs should be given to people who live in bad areas. They need them for safety. If you give these poor people their own guns crime will plummet
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