Or some black men that needed help on a bridge?

walls as they sit in their living rooms, gun shots through the roofs, family reunions, it's just a grand old time.

I bet those shootings would go down if we had sensible gun laws.

even feel comfortable just driving down the street in some areas. Some are killed just for recreational sport.

are you talking new orleans?

my son got a scholarship to university of new orleans. i already have trepidation, read the article and then your posts, lol, thinking new orleans.

although I've not seen them / been there in years. I like New Orleans, always had a good time there, it's a beautiful city.

Kansas City is going through some serious problems ... it seems they want to be the next Chicago. I do not live directly in Kansas City, but in a very safe area. Almost every night on the news are new murders, gun fights and whatever, It gets quite depressing. Parts of Kansas City are beautiful and very safe, but all of the violence in certain areas casts a very negative cloud over the city IMO.

Maybe MSNBC?

From the video you see what appears to be one man arguing some another men in a crush of people. You then see a couple of them leave. Later they come back, seek out the person they argued with and shoot them with some type of handgun. I'm unclear on if they meant to shoot the others or if it was due to the heavy crowd and that they were hit.

They cause most deaths, proving again the the assault weapon frenzy is misplaced. They are actually used in very few shootings compared to hand guns. Hope they find the shooters. Back ground checks may be a good thing but I fear they will not help with this.

bring yer gun!

A hundred thousand people, fueled by thousands of gallons of booze and a couple tons of mind-altering substances, it is and always has been inevitable. We're just being more informed of it because this is the popular topic of the moment.

In a nation of over thee hundred million people, everything you can imagine and more, both good and bad, happens every single day.

today, you'd think the gun owners would try to keep their cohorts under control and under the radar. I'll bet the NYTimes never reported on it before either but now they are. If you don't want them to come and take your guns, you'd better not give them a reason to.

but OTOH, I have no illusions that anything effective will come out of the current side-show either. The problem isn't the guns, it's us. Americans are, generally speaking and with very many exceptions, stupid, violent, and terrifyingly ignorant.

We should, but never will (at least in my lifetime), realize that the only solution is complete disarmament, including everyday law enforcement. As log as guns are commonly available, we will avail ourselves of them and use them.