2aguy
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The problem in the United States is not that normal people own and carry guns for self defense. These people are not using their legal guns for crime and murder. Our problem is that the democrat party, in control of major American cities, refuses to keep criminals locked up in jail and prison. They also focus their efforts on people who do not commit gun crime, while releasing, over and over, criminals who are responsible for the gun crime.....
If you focus on the criminals, you lower gun violence. If you focus on normal people who own guns for self defense, sport, hunting and collecting you do not lower gun violence rates.
For example....
Violence interrupters, often people who have overcome criminal pasts and now mediate disputes to prevent shootings, negotiated a truce over contentious Zoom meetings between warring street crews. The truce has held nearly 100 days into the hot summer, even as shootings and homicides in D.C. spike to decade-high levels.
The negotiators now call the area a “safe place from past drama.”
Daniel Becton, a retired 67-year-old maintenance man and longtime area resident, said, “There had been so much killing. Now the atmosphere has changed.”
He said jealousy drove tensions.
“One man has more than the other one. That’s all,” Becton said. “One person needs to be bigger than the other.”
The area covering the truce is small, a sliver of one neighborhood among dozens in the city overrun by crime. But many District leaders, including the D.C. Council, hope violence interrupters and other alternative-justice programs can curtail killings before the police get involved.
The team that secured the cease-fire hangs a banner in its office, titled “Days since last shooting,” with numbers displayed on placards that resemble old-fashioned manual baseball scoreboards. Saturday marked the 99th day without a shooting in the area.
“It’s a miracle, for real,” said Brittany Graham, an outreach worker with Cure the Streets.
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Rosenfeld cautioned that violence interrupters — a program that began in Chicago and is now active in about a dozen other cities — are one part of a strategy to combat violence.
He said gangs are less organized and less stable than they were a generation ago, with ever-changing affiliations and territories, meaning “today’s truce may not last long.”
He said disputes tend to be “extremely localized,” factors that “pose real challenges to violence interruption” and require vast and committed resources to calm small pieces of dangerous real estate.
If you focus on the criminals, you lower gun violence. If you focus on normal people who own guns for self defense, sport, hunting and collecting you do not lower gun violence rates.
For example....
Violence interrupters, often people who have overcome criminal pasts and now mediate disputes to prevent shootings, negotiated a truce over contentious Zoom meetings between warring street crews. The truce has held nearly 100 days into the hot summer, even as shootings and homicides in D.C. spike to decade-high levels.
The negotiators now call the area a “safe place from past drama.”
Daniel Becton, a retired 67-year-old maintenance man and longtime area resident, said, “There had been so much killing. Now the atmosphere has changed.”
He said jealousy drove tensions.
“One man has more than the other one. That’s all,” Becton said. “One person needs to be bigger than the other.”
The area covering the truce is small, a sliver of one neighborhood among dozens in the city overrun by crime. But many District leaders, including the D.C. Council, hope violence interrupters and other alternative-justice programs can curtail killings before the police get involved.
The team that secured the cease-fire hangs a banner in its office, titled “Days since last shooting,” with numbers displayed on placards that resemble old-fashioned manual baseball scoreboards. Saturday marked the 99th day without a shooting in the area.
“It’s a miracle, for real,” said Brittany Graham, an outreach worker with Cure the Streets.
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Rosenfeld cautioned that violence interrupters — a program that began in Chicago and is now active in about a dozen other cities — are one part of a strategy to combat violence.
He said gangs are less organized and less stable than they were a generation ago, with ever-changing affiliations and territories, meaning “today’s truce may not last long.”
He said disputes tend to be “extremely localized,” factors that “pose real challenges to violence interruption” and require vast and committed resources to calm small pieces of dangerous real estate.
