Neotrotsky
Council to Supreme Soviet
Obamas hometown murders up 31% but he'd rather talk about free contraception
and how Romney spends his money
and how Romney spends his money
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I'm asking you what support you expect from the Federal Government
None. I just expect Obama to be an equal opportunity rabble rouser
Just what I expected
William Bratton: The Real Story of Chicago's Bloody Summer - WSJ.com
Were supposed to believe he was a concerned community organizer from Chicago. Yet gun violence among blacks in his home town is through the roof and not ONE FUCKING PEEP.
But he has time to talk about:
Free rubbers
Gay rights
Taxes on the rich
Romney's work ethics
Mexican illegals
Class warfare
Fake jobs created
Chicken sandwiches
Etc...
The man is a complete phony.
William Bratton: The Real Story of Chicago's Bloody Summer - WSJ.com
Were supposed to believe he was a concerned community organizer from Chicago. Yet gun violence among blacks in his home town is through the roof and not ONE FUCKING PEEP.
But he has time to talk about:
Free rubbers
Gay rights
Taxes on the rich
Romney's work ethics
Mexican illegals
Class warfare
Fake jobs created
Chicken sandwiches
Etc...
The man is a complete phony.
I thought his home town was either Kenya or Hawaii. :S
William Bratton: The Real Story of Chicago's Bloody Summer - WSJ.com
Were supposed to believe he was a concerned community organizer from Chicago. Yet gun violence among blacks in his home town is through the roof and not ONE FUCKING PEEP.
But he has time to talk about:
Free rubbers
Gay rights
Taxes on the rich
Romney's work ethics
Mexican illegals
Class warfare
Fake jobs created
Chicken sandwiches
Etc...
The man is a complete phony.
William Bratton: The Real Story of Chicago's Bloody Summer - WSJ.com
Were supposed to believe he was a concerned community organizer from Chicago. Yet gun violence among blacks in his home town is through the roof and not ONE FUCKING PEEP.
But he has time to talk about:
Free rubbers
Gay rights
Taxes on the rich
Romney's work ethics
Mexican illegals
Class warfare
Fake jobs created
Chicken sandwiches
Etc...
The man is a complete phony.
Well I have tried to look up "community organizer" in the yellow pages--none exist in my phone book--I also tried the government section looking for something that said "community organizer"--and it's not there either.
So you may want to look in your phone books to see if you can find a "community organizer" listed anywhere--but my question is--(what in the hell does a community organizer do)?
I'm not sure how the murder rate in Chicago is something that is Obama's place to discuss. Seems to me that would fall to Rahm and the aldermen...
In that vein, I am left to wonder...
What, exactly, are the values of Chicago that would exclude Chick Fil A from opening a new store? They haven't murdered enough people?
President Barack Obama or even the late the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. could not stop shootings plaguing the city, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright told some members Sunday at a West Side Church. The community would have to come together to stop the killings, said Wright, the controversial former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ. Some of these things have to do with the government and some of these things have to do with our relationships with each other, Wright told a group at an anti-violence program at New Tabernacle Baptist Church, 531 North Kenzie. Neither Martin Luther King nor Barack Hussein Obama can change the systemic evil . . . Let me put it another way * dont think a change in government will straighten this situation out.
He added blacks also would have to help end black-on-black violence. Whos going to help us turn this situation down? Wright asked. A hand came down through the ceiling and said, You black man youre going to do it. Wright said his comments about black violence were similar to a recent homily by the Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina.
The audience erupted in applause several times during Wrights speech. The crowd of about 75 people included representatives of the Nation of Islam and Micheal E. Brunson, recording secretary of the Chicago Teachers Union. Its not about individualism or whos going to be out front, Wright said before backing another controversial leader Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has made past comments that are offensive to Jews and other groups. In recent weeks, Farrakhan and his group have patrolled various neighborhoods to help to stop violence. Oh dont mention Mr. Farrakhan, come on yall, Wright said to another eruption of applause. A lot of preachers are afraid to say Mr. Farrakhan is a friend of mine. You cant tell me who my friend is.
Source
What we need, they say, is a public health approach to the problem, like the highway safety measures, product changes and driving laws that slashed deaths from car crashes decades ago, even as the number of vehicles on the road rose. One example: Guardrails are now curved to the ground instead of having sharp metal ends that stick out and pose a hazard in a crash. "People used to spear themselves and we blamed the drivers for that," said Dr. Garen Wintemute, an emergency medicine professor who directs the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis.
It wasn't enough back then to curb deaths just by trying to make people better drivers, and it isn't enough now to tackle gun violence by focusing solely on the people doing the shooting, he and other doctors say. They want a science-based, pragmatic approach based on the reality of a society saturated with guns and seek better ways of preventing harm from them. The need for a new approach crystallized last Sunday for one of the nation's leading gun violence experts, Dr. Stephen Hargarten. He found himself treating victims of the Sikh temple shootings at the emergency department he heads in Milwaukee. Seven people were killed, including the gunman, and three were seriously injured.
It happened two weeks after the shooting that killed 12 people and injured 58 at a movie theater in Colorado, and two days before a man pleaded guilty to killing six people and wounding 13, including then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in Tucson, Ariz., last year. "What I'm struggling with is, is this the new social norm? This is what we're going to have to live with if we have more personal access to firearms," said Hargarten, emergency medicine chief at Froedtert Hospital and director of the Injury Research Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin. "We have a public health issue to discuss. Do we wait for the next outbreak or is there something we can do to prevent it?"
About 260 million to 300 million firearms are owned by civilians in the United States; about one-third of American homes have one. Guns are used in two-thirds of homicides, according to the FBI. About 9 percent of all violent crimes involve a gun roughly 338,000 cases each year. Mass shootings don't seem to be on the rise, but not all police agencies report details like the number of victims per shooting and reporting lags by more than a year, so recent trends are not known. "The greater toll is not from these clusters but from endemic violence, the stuff that occurs every day and doesn't make the headlines," said Wintemute, the California researcher. More than 73,000 emergency room visits in 2010 were for firearm-related injuries, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.
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If he talks about gun violence, you'll cry and say he is going to take your guns.
If he doesn't talk about gun violence, you cry and whine that he isn't talking about gun violence.
Yeah. Seems fair.
Republicans like gun violence. It makes them feel safer.
Really?
Rev. Wright finally says somethin' right...
Jeremiah Wright: Blacks must stop violence
August 13, 2012 - 'Dont think a change in government will straighten this situation out'
President Barack Obama or even the late the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. could not stop shootings plaguing the city, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright told some members Sunday at a West Side Church. The community would have to come together to stop the killings, said Wright, the controversial former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ. Some of these things have to do with the government and some of these things have to do with our relationships with each other, Wright told a group at an anti-violence program at New Tabernacle Baptist Church, 531 North Kenzie. Neither Martin Luther King nor Barack Hussein Obama can change the systemic evil . . . Let me put it another way * dont think a change in government will straighten this situation out.
He added blacks also would have to help end black-on-black violence. Whos going to help us turn this situation down? Wright asked. A hand came down through the ceiling and said, You black man youre going to do it. Wright said his comments about black violence were similar to a recent homily by the Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina.
The audience erupted in applause several times during Wrights speech. The crowd of about 75 people included representatives of the Nation of Islam and Micheal E. Brunson, recording secretary of the Chicago Teachers Union. Its not about individualism or whos going to be out front, Wright said before backing another controversial leader Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has made past comments that are offensive to Jews and other groups. In recent weeks, Farrakhan and his group have patrolled various neighborhoods to help to stop violence. Oh dont mention Mr. Farrakhan, come on yall, Wright said to another eruption of applause. A lot of preachers are afraid to say Mr. Farrakhan is a friend of mine. You cant tell me who my friend is.
Source
See also:
Doctors target gun violence as a social disease
August 11, 2012 Is a gun like a virus, a car, tobacco or alcohol? Yes say public health experts, who in the wake of recent mass shootings are calling for a fresh look at gun violence as a social disease.
What we need, they say, is a public health approach to the problem, like the highway safety measures, product changes and driving laws that slashed deaths from car crashes decades ago, even as the number of vehicles on the road rose. One example: Guardrails are now curved to the ground instead of having sharp metal ends that stick out and pose a hazard in a crash. "People used to spear themselves and we blamed the drivers for that," said Dr. Garen Wintemute, an emergency medicine professor who directs the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis.
It wasn't enough back then to curb deaths just by trying to make people better drivers, and it isn't enough now to tackle gun violence by focusing solely on the people doing the shooting, he and other doctors say. They want a science-based, pragmatic approach based on the reality of a society saturated with guns and seek better ways of preventing harm from them. The need for a new approach crystallized last Sunday for one of the nation's leading gun violence experts, Dr. Stephen Hargarten. He found himself treating victims of the Sikh temple shootings at the emergency department he heads in Milwaukee. Seven people were killed, including the gunman, and three were seriously injured.
It happened two weeks after the shooting that killed 12 people and injured 58 at a movie theater in Colorado, and two days before a man pleaded guilty to killing six people and wounding 13, including then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in Tucson, Ariz., last year. "What I'm struggling with is, is this the new social norm? This is what we're going to have to live with if we have more personal access to firearms," said Hargarten, emergency medicine chief at Froedtert Hospital and director of the Injury Research Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin. "We have a public health issue to discuss. Do we wait for the next outbreak or is there something we can do to prevent it?"
About 260 million to 300 million firearms are owned by civilians in the United States; about one-third of American homes have one. Guns are used in two-thirds of homicides, according to the FBI. About 9 percent of all violent crimes involve a gun roughly 338,000 cases each year. Mass shootings don't seem to be on the rise, but not all police agencies report details like the number of victims per shooting and reporting lags by more than a year, so recent trends are not known. "The greater toll is not from these clusters but from endemic violence, the stuff that occurs every day and doesn't make the headlines," said Wintemute, the California researcher. More than 73,000 emergency room visits in 2010 were for firearm-related injuries, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.
MORE
Wow, another "relevant" thread...
William Bratton: The Real Story of Chicago's Bloody Summer - WSJ.com
Were supposed to believe he was a concerned community organizer from Chicago. Yet gun violence among blacks in his home town is through the roof and not ONE FUCKING PEEP.
But he has time to talk about:
Free rubbers
Gay rights
Taxes on the rich
Romney's work ethics
Mexican illegals
Class warfare
Fake jobs created
Chicken sandwiches
Etc...
The man is a complete phony.
If he talks about gun violence, you'll cry and say he is going to take your guns.
If he doesn't talk about gun violence, you cry and whine that he isn't talking about gun violence.
Yeah. Seems fair.
If he talks about gun violence, you'll cry and say he is going to take your guns.
If he doesn't talk about gun violence, you cry and whine that he isn't talking about gun violence.
Yeah. Seems fair.