Here We Go Again
Today's MGCSS/DHBA comes from the Boston Globe.
Clearly, the Globe is just making these stories up now. I mean, come on, a drive-by shooting? In Boston? Why we have the "most effective gun control laws in the country". It's very illegal to shoot someone on the sidewalk from a moving vehicle. And a stabbing? That's not possible. We've been told we need these "common sense" gun laws, because "guns cause crime".
I call upon the Boston Globe to recant these two OBVIOUSLY fabricated stories.
But don't despair, fair citizens of Boston, your courageous mayor has a plan. Yes, after approximately 4,378 days serving in the capacity as mayor of this town, he now has a plan (this time he means it). He just needed a few (thousand) days to work out the kinks.
I will say I am definitely in favor of increasing the number of officers patrolling these neighborhoods on mountain bikes. More to the point, I'd like to see more cops trading in their cruisers for bikes, instead of having the city use the old "throw more money at it" method of problem-solving. The rest of Menino's plan, however, seems to revolve around the theory that these kids are shooting each other because they're bored and "there's nothing to do".
We live in the largest city in New England. There are plenty of places to go, and things to do that don't involve gunplay (though, not nearly enough indoor pistol ranges). If boredom triggered violence, the town in Maine I grew up would have been a friggin' bloodbath.
Violence claims two more lives in Boston
Homicides rise to 29 this year
By Cristina Silva, Globe Correspondent June 30, 2005
A 19-year-old man was killed in the hallway of his grandmother's home in a drive-by shooting Tuesday night in Roxbury, and five hours later another man was found fatally stabbed on a Dorchester street corner, police and relatives said yesterday.
Clearly, the Globe is just making these stories up now. I mean, come on, a drive-by shooting? In Boston? Why we have the "most effective gun control laws in the country". It's very illegal to shoot someone on the sidewalk from a moving vehicle. And a stabbing? That's not possible. We've been told we need these "common sense" gun laws, because "guns cause crime".
I call upon the Boston Globe to recant these two OBVIOUSLY fabricated stories.
But don't despair, fair citizens of Boston, your courageous mayor has a plan. Yes, after approximately 4,378 days serving in the capacity as mayor of this town, he now has a plan (this time he means it). He just needed a few (thousand) days to work out the kinks.
City officials plan to announce today Mayor Thomas M. Menino's summer antiviolence strategy, including a new squad of about 10 police officers on bicycles patrolling Mattapan, Roxbury, and Dorchester; the return of city-sponsored midnight basketball; and 14 new youth workers.
I will say I am definitely in favor of increasing the number of officers patrolling these neighborhoods on mountain bikes. More to the point, I'd like to see more cops trading in their cruisers for bikes, instead of having the city use the old "throw more money at it" method of problem-solving. The rest of Menino's plan, however, seems to revolve around the theory that these kids are shooting each other because they're bored and "there's nothing to do".
We live in the largest city in New England. There are plenty of places to go, and things to do that don't involve gunplay (though, not nearly enough indoor pistol ranges). If boredom triggered violence, the town in Maine I grew up would have been a friggin' bloodbath.
