{"id":52676,"date":"2014-06-30T10:10:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T14:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=52676"},"modified":"2014-06-30T10:10:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T14:10:01","slug":"hot-time-summer-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52676","title":{"rendered":"Hot time. Summer in the city"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ex-PH2 sends us a link from NBC<\/a> which reports that New York City had a particularly bad weekend in regards to gun violence with a final count of four dead and 19 wounded;<\/p>\n

Despite the weekend spike in violence, the volume of shootings so far in 2014 is lower than it was last year, police say.<\/p>\n

“We’re always concerned about any shootings, but we have 1,200 additional cops this week,” Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said, referencing recruits that will graduate from the NYPD’s police academy Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, I’m sure the families of the victims will take comfort in the fact that the volume of shootings is down this year. Meanwhile, the nation’s capitol experienced a spike in violent deaths and injuries despite the fact that they had a “All Hands On Deck” police presence in the city, according to the Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Two people were killed and a nightclub was shuttered amid a slew of shootings and stabbings during a violent weekend in the District, which saw officers flood the streets to beef up patrols.<\/p>\n

Five shootings and two stabbings were reported between Friday night and Sunday morning with all the city\u2019s police officers on duty as part of the All Hands on Deck crime-reduction initiative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Given that it’s difficult to be a gun owner in both of those cities, we can probably safely conclude that the guns used in those crimes were unregistered or otherwise used outside the law. And, I guess the stabbings can be evidence in the argument that it’s not guns that cause violent behavior, but rather the people themselves. Banning guns won’t stop violent behavior. <\/p>\n

Lawmakers, protected by good guys with guns, view all of us as potential criminals, though. One particularly violent weekend is only evidence to them that guns need to be banned universally, so they’re the only ones with guns. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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