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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 12:26 PM
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129. Some observations...
She was shot and is angry. She speaks out against violence, but then calls for the wrath of her vengeful god to "...get you for it. Your time will come, best believe it". Quite the little pacifist...

There is nothing about who shot her, or what the shooting was about. The following from the article "On April 5, 3-year-old Isaiah Gregory was hit in the buttocks while on a playground just a few feet from his front door in the Sheppard Square housing complex." indicates that she is living in one of the cesspools common to every city in the country, where men, women, and children, are shot on a daily basis. It was likely a conflict over, or inspired by, drugs. Yet she is angry at the guns, not the cause of the conflict.

The residents of these neighborhoods know exactly who the bangers and the dealers are, yet they fear the police more than they fear the perpetrators, and therefore, won't cooperate with those we have assigned to maintain order. The issue is not guns, the issues are economic inequity and social neglect, address these and the gun issue becomes irrelevant.
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