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Yes.....here we have a story from New York...you know, one of the cities that has strict gun control....and gangs represent about half of the gun murders...or gang related activity...that doesn't include other criminal activity...
Nearly half of NYC's shootings gang-related
Of the more than 300 homicides so far this year in New York City, almost half of those – 40 percent – were determined to be gang-related, with 49 percent of the city’s nearly 1,100 shootings tied to gangs as well.
Law enforcement officials in the Big Apple say homicides are up, though overall crime is slightly down, but the beefs between rival gangs are erupting more commonly over seemingly petty offenses. The city’s 375 gangs – most of which are huddled around housing projects – are typically at war over drugs, money and turf, but a great deal of the gang-related shootings also stem from the notion that a boy becomes a man once he puts a bullet in another person.
“It’s a fearsome reality: violence for its own sake,” Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told the New York Daily News, who published a special report Sunday on the city’s gang violence. “The gun has come to define manhood for these young men, and the willingness to use it has become a rite of passage.”
Nearly half of NYC's shootings gang-related
Of the more than 300 homicides so far this year in New York City, almost half of those – 40 percent – were determined to be gang-related, with 49 percent of the city’s nearly 1,100 shootings tied to gangs as well.
Law enforcement officials in the Big Apple say homicides are up, though overall crime is slightly down, but the beefs between rival gangs are erupting more commonly over seemingly petty offenses. The city’s 375 gangs – most of which are huddled around housing projects – are typically at war over drugs, money and turf, but a great deal of the gang-related shootings also stem from the notion that a boy becomes a man once he puts a bullet in another person.
“It’s a fearsome reality: violence for its own sake,” Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told the New York Daily News, who published a special report Sunday on the city’s gang violence. “The gun has come to define manhood for these young men, and the willingness to use it has become a rite of passage.”
