Ghosts Weren't Even Mentioned Before

[abbey1227]

Chuckie's trying to distract from the recent past with this shiny new object...........

nypost.com/2022/04/10/schumer-demands-fed-crackdown-on-ghost-guns-after-nyc-shooting/?fbclid=IwAR1GderSrEpxY74MOhFzW1Y2TjEFnaw2D4y1j-uTN6rKYuYVNka1EC5YsrE

Schumer demands federal crackdown on ghost guns after fatal Bronx shooting
By Kevin Sheehan and Sam Raskin   April 10, 2022

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday called for a federal crackdown on “ghost guns” amid a staggering surge in seizures of the DIY weapons in New York City.

Schumer (D-NY) lamented that the untraceable firearms that buyers assemble themselves have too often ended up in the wrong hands — such as those of the Bronx teen charged in a shooting Friday that left a 16-year-old girl dead and two others wounded.

“These guns are too easy to build, too hard to trace, and too dangerous to be on our streets,” Schumer told reporters in Manhattan. “Just ask the family of that beautiful 16-year-old who was killed in the Bronx.”

NYPD statistics show a 351% increase in the number of ghost guns recovered by police so far this year. At least 131 of the makeshift firearms were seized between Jan. 1 and Wednesday — compared to just 29 during the same period in 2021.

“The issue of ghost guns is haunting all of New York,” Schumer said.

He called on the federal government to put in place rules that would classify “partially complete” frames and receivers as firearms, which would subject them to gun regulations, including background checks and serial numbers.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8585265/New-York-City-shootings-2020-2019-man-777th-victim.html#:~:text=REVEALED%3A%20New%20York%20City%20has%20already%20had%20more,Brownsville%20and%20East%20New%20York%20More%20items...%20

New York City has already had more shootings in 2020 than in the whole of 2019 - with another SEVEN attacks on Sunday morning alone

New York City surpassed the gun shootings total for 2019 on Saturday night
By Saturday night there were 777 shootings so far this year, while in the whole of 2019 the city recorded 776 shootings
By late Sunday morning that total had risen to 784 shootings
The greatest number of shootings have been in Brownsville and East New York
The Upper West Side has seen the largest percentage increase in gun violence
Between June 1-30, there was a 130 per cent increase in the number of shootings

By Harriet Alexander For Dailymail.com   Published: 10:33 EDT, 2 August 2020 | Updated: 18:08 EDT, 2 August 2020


New York City has had more shootings so far this year than in the whole of 2019, after another violent Saturday night tipped the scales, and seven shootings followed in the early hours of Sunday.

There were 776 recorded shootings in the whole of 2019, according to NYPD data.

And on Saturday night a 24-year-old man walked bleeding into Lincoln Hospital in The Bronx, taking the number of reported shootings this year to 777.

[merh]

Another San Diego isn't LA or Frisco

[abbey1227]

Apr 18, 2022 19:27:49 GMT merh said:

Another San Diego isn't LA or Frisco

you ain't whistlin' Dixie, Sweetheart

For some reason, some of the most bizarre attacks/killings happen outside Dodger and Giant games, too?

But don't worry, I'm sure per capita it all looks and feels much better. 

[merh]

Apr 19, 2022 0:58:18 GMT abbey1227 said:

Apr 18, 2022 19:27:49 GMT merh said:

Another San Diego isn't LA or Frisco

you ain't whistlin' Dixie, Sweetheart

For some reason, some of the most bizarre attacks/killings happen outside Dodger and Giant games, too?

But don't worry, I'm sure per capita it all looks and feels much better. 

California isn't even top 10.
Oakland is the first at #11.
Los Angeles is #20.

[abbey1227]

Apr 19, 2022 6:04:02 GMT merh said:

Apr 19, 2022 0:58:18 GMT abbey1227 said:

you ain't whistlin' Dixie, Sweetheart

For some reason, some of the most bizarre attacks/killings happen outside Dodger and Giant games, too?

But don't worry, I'm sure per capita it all looks and feels much better. 

California isn't even top 10.
Oakland is the first at #11.
Los Angeles is #20.

You're talking including the areas outside the stadiums.........which you've pointed out before cali is huge.

Oakland has had a pretty grim rep for years. That's why the Raiders crowd seemed to get so 'demonstrative'?

and again.........just how large is LA? as in, how many smaller towns/suburbs, neighborhoods etc compose it?

I find that an odd thing how that ends up being. Milwaukee is a good example of what I'm talking about..........whereas Green Bay seemed to stop at it's previous lines and no longer just absorbs the surrounding communities into it's ranks.

[merh]

Apr 19, 2022 7:21:02 GMT abbey1227 said:

Apr 19, 2022 6:04:02 GMT merh said:

California isn't even top 10.
Oakland is the first at #11.
Los Angeles is #20.

You're talking including the areas outside the stadiums.........which you've pointed out before cali is huge.

Oakland has had a pretty grim rep for years. That's why the Raiders crowd seemed to get so 'demonstrative'?

and again.........just how large is LA? as in, how many smaller towns/suburbs, neighborhoods etc compose it?

I find that an odd thing how that ends up being. Milwaukee is a good example of what I'm talking about..........whereas Green Bay seemed to stop at it's previous lines and no longer just absorbs the surrounding communities into it's ranks.

The city of Los Angeles covers a total area of 502.7 square miles (1,302 km2), comprising 468.7 square miles (1,214 km2) of land and 34.0 square miles (88 km2) of water. The city extends for 44 miles (71 km) north-south and for 29 miles (47 km) east-west. The perimeter of the city is 342 miles (550 km)

The city is divided into many different districts and neighborhoods, some of which were incorporated cities that merged with Los Angeles. These neighborhoods were developed piecemeal, and are well-defined enough that the city has signage marking nearly all of them

Adams-Normandie, Alsace, Angelino Heights, Angeles Mesa, Angelus Vista, Arleta, Arlington Heights, Arts District, Atwater Village, Baldwin Hills, Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw, Baldwin Village, Baldwin Vista, Beachwood Canyon, Bel Air/Bel-Air/Bel Air Estates, Benedict Canyon, Beverly Crest, Beverly Glen, Beverly Grove, Beverly Hills Post Office, Beverly Park, Beverlywood, Boyle Heights. Brentwood, Brentwood Circle, Brentwood Glen, Broadway-Manchester, Brookside, Bunker Hill, Byzantine-Latino Quarter, Cahuenga Pass, Canoga Park, Canterbury Knolls, Carthay, Carthay Circle, Castle Heights, Central-Alameda, Central City, Century City, Chatsworth. Chesterfield Square, Cheviot Hills, Chinatown, Civic Center, Country Club Park, Crenshaw, Crestview, Crestwood Hills, Cypress Park, Del Rey, Downtown, Eagle Rock, East Gate Bel Air, East Hollywood, Echo Park, Edendale, El Sereno, Elysian Heights, Elysian Park, Elysian Valley, Encino, Exposition Park, Faircrest Heights, Fairfax, Fashion District, Filipinotown, Historic, Financial District, Florence, Flower District, Franklin Hills, Gallery Row, Garvanza, Glassell Park, Gramercy Park, Granada Hills, Green Meadows, Griffith Park, Hancock Park, Hansen Heights, Harbor City, Harbor Gateway, Harvard Heights, Harvard Park, Hermon, Highland Park, Historic Filipinotown, Historic Core, Hollywood, Hollywood Dell, Hollywood Hills, Hollywood Hills West, Holmby Hills, Hyde Park, L.A. Downtown Industrial District, Jefferson Park, Jewelry District, Kinney Heights, Koreatown, La Cienega Heights, Ladera, Lafayette Square, Lake Balboa, Lake View Terrace, Larchmont, Laurel Canyon, Leimert Park. Lincoln Heights, Little Armenia, Little Bangladesh, Little Ethiopia, Little Italy, Little Tokyo, Los Feliz, Manchester Square, Mandeville Canyon, Marina Peninsula, Mar Vista, Melrose Hill, Mid-City, Mid-City Heights, Mid-City West, Mid-Wilshire, Miracle Mile, Mission Hills, Montecito Heights, Monterey Hills. Mount Olympus, Mount Washington, Naud Junction, Nichols Canyon, NoHo Arts District, North Hills, North Hollywood, Northridge, North University Park, Oakwood, Old Bank District, Outpost Estates, Pacific Palisades, Pacoima, Palms, Panorama City, Park La Brea, Picfair Village. Pico-Robertson, Pico-Union, Playa del Rey, Playa Vista, Porter Ranch, Rancho Park, Reseda, Reynier Village, Rose Hills, Rustic Canyon, San Pedro, Sawtelle, Shadow Hills, Sherman Oaks, Sherman Village, Silver Lake, Skid Row, Solano Canyon, Sonoratown, South Central, Historic, South Carthay, South Park, South Robertson, Spaulding Square, Studio City, Sunland, Sunset Junction, Sun Valley, Sylmar, Tarzana, Terminal Island, Thai Town, Toluca Lake, Toy District, Tujunga, University Hills, University Park, University Park North, Valley Glen, Valley Village, Van Nuys, Venice,Vermont Knolls, Vermont-Slauson, Vermont Square, Vermont VistaVictor Heights, 
Victoria Park, Village Green, Warehouse District, Warner Center, Watts, Wellington Square, West Adams, West Adams Heights, Westchester, Westdale, Western Heights, West Hills, Westlake, West Los Angeles, Westside Village, Westwood, Westwood Village, Whitley Heights, Wholesale District, Wilmington,Wilshire Center, Wilshire Park, Wilshire Vista, Windsor Square, Winnetka, Woodland Hills, Yucca Corridor

One does need a way to designate 500 square miles of city. 

Frisco, on the other hand, 

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a cultural, commercial, and financial center in the U.S. state of California. Located in Northern California, San Francisco is the 17th most populous city proper in the United States, and the fourth most populous in California, with 873,965 residents as of 2020. It covers an area of about 46.9 square miles (121 square kilometers), mostly at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city, and the fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs.

Is city & County in one.

Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California. A major West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third largest city overall in the Bay Area, and the eighth most populated city in California. With a population of 440,646 as of 2020, it serves as a trade center: the Port of Oakland is the busiest port in Northern California, and the fifth busiest in the United States of America

Oakland has more than 50 distinct neighborhoods.

It is 78 square miles.


Milwaukee 

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 96.80 square miles (250.71 km2), of which, 96.12 square miles (248.95 km2) is land and 0.68 square miles (1.76 km2) is water. The city is overwhelmingly (99.89% of its area) in Milwaukee County, but there are two tiny unpopulated portions that extend into neighboring counties. The part in Washington County is bordered by the southeast corner of Germantown, while the part in Waukesha County is bordered by the southeast corner of Menomonee Falls, north of the village of Butler.

So land mass is closer to Oakland 


So Los Angeles,  like San Diego, has communities but they aren't cities with mayors, etc. LA city council controls them

[abbey1227]

Apr 19, 2022 11:24:19 GMT merh said:

Milwaukee 

So land mass is closer to Oakland 


So Los Angeles,  like San Diego, has communities but they aren't cities with mayors, etc. LA city council controls them

It's very odd the variety of methods employed, right?

[merh]

Apr 19, 2022 11:31:14 GMT abbey1227 said:

Apr 19, 2022 11:24:19 GMT merh said:

Milwaukee 
So land mass is closer to Oakland 


So Los Angeles,  like San Diego, has communities but they aren't cities with mayors, etc. LA city council controls them

It's very odd the variety of methods employed, right?

We are influenced by Spain & the missions they built across the state. Our first government was Spaniards.

Yet  NYC also is a bunch of communities as well.

Maybe just a result of the settlers?

[abbey1227]

Apr 19, 2022 12:25:02 GMT merh said:

Apr 19, 2022 11:31:14 GMT abbey1227 said:

It's very odd the variety of methods employed, right?

We are influenced by Spain & the missions they built across the state. Our first government was Spaniards.

Yet  NYC also is a bunch of communities as well.

Maybe just a result of the settlers?

I'd also guess it had a bit to do with a history of wanting each newly arrived neighborhood to identify as itself.........as opposed to much later years where suburbs just tried to be kinda generic and appealing to all

[merh]

Mass shootings across U.S. highlight surge in deadly gun violence
Garin Flowers

Wed, April 20, 2022, 1:05 PM·6 min read
Summary
At least 10 mass shootings rocked the U.S. during Easter weekend this year — a sign that gun violence continues to soar across the country after hitting a high during the first year of the pandemic.

In Pittsburgh, two high school students were shot dead and at least eight others were injured at a house party on Sunday. The day before, at a mall in Columbia, S.C., 10 people were shot and two others were injured after at least one person opened fire. These shootings rounded out a holiday weekend that left eight dead and dozens more injured.

In Brooklyn, N.Y., last week, a man opened fire on a subway train, leaving 10 people shot and others injured in the chaos, while in Sacramento, Calif., earlier this month, six people were killed in gang-related violence that saw more than 100 rounds fired, officials said.

In the first four months of 2022 alone, more than 12,000 people died from guns in the U.S., a number that includes both homicides and suicides, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

The pandemic did little to reduce gun violence in America. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that more Americans died of gun-related injuries in 2020 — 45,222 — than in any other year on record. That startling statistic included a record number of gun murders and a near-record number of suicides.

One way to address gun violence — particularly mass shootings — is what’s known as threat assessment, which Mark Follman, the national affairs editor for Mother Jones magazine, breaks down in his new book, “Trigger Points.”

He describes the method of behavioral threat assessment as the tool used to prevent planned attacks — shootings in which the attacker cultivates and plans out the attack over a period of time.

“That’s really the core of the work of threat assessment, is looking at the behaviors and circumstances that lead up to those kinds of attacks, of planning, threatening communications, other forms of behavioral warning signs and identifying patterns within that, to try to then intervene and prevent those kinds of acts from occurring,” Follman told Yahoo News.

Follman said he started researching mass shootings in 2012 and was startled by the lack of data he could find. It was the same year that a gunman opened fire in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater, leaving 12 dead — including a 6-year-old girl — and 70 others injured. In December of that year, another 26 people, 20 of them children, died in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

“I started analyzing these cases,” Follman said. “And within a few months, I had started to see a pattern in the cases that ... there’s often a trail of behavioral warning signs that are patterns that are detectable.”

Follman noted that in 2013, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder “commented to the gathering of the nation’s police chiefs that there was a team at the FBI that had stopped more than 100 mass shootings that year. And that just really turned my head. You know, what is that all about? That sounds really thick.”

He said mass shootings can be very different in nature, with attacks like New York’s subway shooting being characterized as ones that are “thought about and planned.”

“There's this popular theme, this idea that these are crazy people who are just snapping, and going out and committing an attack like that as if it's an impulsive act. But that's not true at all, that's not the case,” Follman said.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a former police officer who faces a difficult challenge as crime surges, released a blueprint in January to address the city's gun issue.

“Gun violence is a public health crisis that continues to threaten every corner of our city,” the mayor said. “We pray for all the victims of violence and their families who are suffering, but we are going to do more than pray — we’re going to turn our pain into purpose. Public safety is my administration’s highest priority, which is why we will remove guns from our streets, protect our communities, and create a safe, prosperous and just city for all New Yorkers.”

In California, lawmakers in a state judiciary committee on Tuesday held a hearing on a bill that would allow state citizens to sue gun manufacturers for negligent practices.

One of the bill’s sponsors, Democratic state Assembly member Phil Ting, told the committee: “I think it’s unfair that the toy industry has a lot more liability than the gun industry.”

Nationally, President Biden announced on April 11 that the Department of Justice will crack down on so-called ghost guns — firearms that lack a serial number, are untraceable and can be assembled at home. The White House said there were approximately 20,000 suspected ghost guns reported to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives last year — which the Biden administration said was a 10-fold increase from 2016 — that were recovered by law enforcement during criminal investigations.

In “Trigger Points,” Follman said he focused on the pervasive problem of school shootings. In one case, he said, a student who was planning a mass shooting was treated with support instead of contempt.

“They determined he’s a pretty serious risk. And so what they do is they extend a lot of close personal support to him very quickly. The idea is to be constructive in the prevention work, especially in a school setting, where I think the opportunity to do that is probably in some ways the most, has the greatest potential.”

When it comes to addressing mass shootings, he said the biggest tool is threat assessment and that it’s not just up to law enforcement but a community effort.

“How do you catch someone like the New York City subway shooter before it’s too late? Here's a guy who, from what we can tell, was living in pretty serious isolation, was kind of a loner moving around. And yet there were people around him who were unsettled by his behavior. Neighbors that we saw reporting on ... family members who were estranged from him. You know, those are the people who are in a position to see warning signs. Then the question becomes, who do they turn to? Or where do they know to get help?”

https/mass-shootings-across-us-highlight-surge-in-deadly-gun-violence-200517185.html

[abbey1227]

Apr 21, 2022 12:06:18 GMT merh said:

Mass shootings across U.S. highlight surge in deadly gun violence


The pandemic did little to reduce gun violence in America. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that more Americans died of gun-related injuries in 2020 — 45,222 — than in any other year on record. That startling statistic included a record number of gun murders and a near-record number of suicides.

https/mass-shootings-across-us-highlight-surge-in-deadly-gun-violence-200517185.html

They're still lumping in those suicides? Anything to push that agenda forward

So much for that nationwide lock down, too  

[merh]

Apr 21, 2022 12:32:29 GMT abbey1227 said:

Apr 21, 2022 12:06:18 GMT merh said:

https/mass-shootings-across-us-highlight-surge-in-deadly-gun-violence-200517185.html

They're still lumping in those suicides? Anything to push that agenda forward

So much for that nationwide lock down, too  

It got the author to look at the info.
That the government had stopped 100 shooters?
Meaning we could have had more gun deaths?

I don't like guns.
I do think there's an immediacy to them that eliminates the chance of second thoughts.

Were there not a gun available, the shooting wouldn't have happened 

[abbey1227]

Apr 21, 2022 14:00:51 GMT merh said:

It got the author to look at the info.
That the government had stopped 100 shooters?
Meaning we could have had more gun deaths?

I don't like guns.
I do think there's an immediacy to them that eliminates the chance of second thoughts.

Were there not a gun available, the shooting wouldn't have happened

We could always have more........if people were better shots. I still laugh when I hear the police fired so many rounds and very few find their target. Criminals are usually worse than them. You see me post about Chicago gun deaths.......the surviving shooting victims are many, many times more.

I think suicidal people have a will.......so they'll find a way. The same goes for violent criminals. Fists, knives, bats, etc

And anti-gun types tend to ignore the FBI stats on the number of crimes stopped by legal gun owners. It's a huge number.

[merh]

SAN DIEGO — Multiple people have been shot at Shelter Island, creating a heavy police presence in the area, according to the San Diego Police Department. Shelter Island Drive was shutdown while police investigated.

Police said there was a confrontation between two parties that ended with one of the parties opening fire.

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SDPD confirmed three men were shot. Two of the victims sustained non-life threatening injuries. The condition of the third victim is unknown.

The San Diego Police Department confirmed to CBS 8 at around 9 p.m. on Saturday, reports of a shooting on the island began coming in. SDPD said multiple people were shot.

SDPD said there is no immediate danger to the public

Yeah!
Guns at the beach!

[abbey1227]

May 1, 2022 6:42:22 GMT merh said:

n Diego Police Department confirmed to CBS 8 at around 9 p.m. on Saturday, reports of a shooting on the island began coming in. SDPD said multiple people were shot.

SDPD said there is no immediate danger to the public

Yeah!
Guns at the beach!

I just saw a piece with a coyote at the beach attacking a toddler. 

They shot 2 of them later......and not the actual attacker yet.

Didja ever notice they rarely mention if the shooters are LEGAL gun owners? I was on Green Bay Crime Reports recently looking at the silly mug shots and it was amazing how many felons were in possession of guns. Don't they know we have laws against that?

[merh]

[abbey1227]

May 2, 2022 18:00:47 GMT merh said:

clown show

[merh]

[abbey1227]

May 9, 2022 2:53:09 GMT merh said:

Owl Team 5 

[merh]