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Police say Lower Mills head shooting NOT random
By adamg on Fri, 11/07/2014 - 12:55pm
The Dorchester Reporter updates us on the latest in the shooting of a father of three Tuesday night.
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If anybody is looking for me,
If anybody is looking for me, I'll be hanging out in the last thread about this shooting, waiting for various anonymous posters to acknowledge that untargeted shootings in broad daylight are not, in fact, a plague on our fair city.
Shouldn't be long. I'm sure they'll be back real soon, and feeling very silly about the whole thing.
Be afraid
Be very afraid!
Stay in your car or in your house. Do what you are told. Follow orders for your safety!
This is the American way!
Do you ever get tired of
Do you ever get tired of posting this same comment on every story?
If you are caught up in an
If you are caught up in an argument in the street with some group of thugs and get shot, that is still pretty random to me. People should be able to walk on their streets without being bothered by bullies with guns.
I hope the police commissioner and mayor have a better plan than what is being done now. These shootings are becoming more brazen each and every day.
Randomness
I don't disagree with your premise, but the police comments are in reaction to a WFXT piece yesterday that made it sound like some guy just started shooting his gun for no damn reason.
Well...
If this turns out to be one of those "well he brushed my shoulder with his backpack and didn't say excuse me..." then it might as well be. A headline saying that it wasn't random makes me assume that the victim was somehow involved in some kind of bad behavior or knew these guys and it sounds as if this is not the case. The comments from the family members are heartbreaking--I am really pulling for this guy.
Proactive- Stop the supply
Stop the supply of illegally bought and sold weapons.
Less/no supply of guns = less gun violence.
It's Proactive vs Reactive.
Getting Information on stash houses is difficult unless police have good informants or can get info from someone arrested.
That doesn't work. See the
That doesn't work. See the Drug War for the multitude of reasons why supply side interdiction is a failure.
What does work is keeping known violent people locked up for more than 3-5 years at time. Targeting the end user works be it stopping violence by keeping gang members off the streets or eliminating drug abuse by getting addicts into rigorous treatment programs.
Wow!
You are so sure stopping the supply of guns won't work to help reduce gun violence?
Wow!
Trillions of dollars spent
Trillions of dollars spent fighting the supply of totally illegal drugs leads and failing miserably makes me to believe attempting to stop 1800s technology from falling into the hands of criminals won't work.
Millions of illegal guns
Are already out there on the streets - eliminating gun production outright will not make any difference, let alone making it slightly more difficult for people to buy one. Effective thug control, on the other hand, would do wonders - implement 5 year minimum for possession and 15 year minimum for any violent crime committed while in possession and ensure it's always enforced, and gun violence will decrease by a factor of 10 overnight.
About getting rid of illegal guns
Great idea! Now how do we do it?
Black Market Gun Trade
ATF, FBI, State, Local PD need information, informants, and resources because its hard to shut down the out of state gun dealers, buyers, sellers who habitually trade with gangs and make money with their black market gun sales.
Look up The Iron Pipeline.
Death rides the Iron pipeline from Southern States to the North.
Sounds random to me. Unless
Sounds random to me. Unless more comes out that the victim and the shooter had a past. From the story it is a random act of attempted murder. Not a robbery. Not a gang retaliation. Not a vendetta shooting. Just a poor guy on his way home from work getting shot by an angry thug.
For profit gun control
I been within feet of two Assaults with firearms of recent, last fall in Fields Corner a guy in a SUV got six shots off at another guy on the side walk. The Police were just a couple of cars behind. A few months ago on Dot Ave. at Ashmont another guy fired two shots at another with Police across the street, under a shot spotter and six cops with a cruiser with lights flashing across the square. They knew who they were shooting and other knew who was shooting at them. it's not violent guns it's violent people who don't even care the the police are looking at them. The guns are old, they have been out in the black market on average of 15 years, propose some new restrictions, they will mean nothing, nothing, nothing to the violent inner city sub culture. I'm suspicious of all the anti-gun cash available to gun control groups to promote an off point agenda. It's violent people, violent Mothers, absent and or violent Fathers that should if I may, respect each other and there children.