Posted on 08/05/2007 11:43:52 AM PDT by shrinkermd
A good article written by a trauma surgeon comparing his Iraq experience with that of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Besides this there is this:
"...More young men are killed each day on the streets of America than on the worst days of carnage and loss in Iraq. There is a war at home raging every day, filling our trauma centers with so many wounded children that it sometimes makes Baghdad seem like a quiet city in Iowa.
"...Unlike the Iraq conflict, this war is not on the front pages of The Post or on CNN. You have heard of the Washington area sniper shootings and the massacre at Virginia Tech. I am sure you have not heard about the "Lex Street massacre," in which 10 people ages 15 to 56 were lined up and shot, execution-style, in the winter of 2000. Seven were killed, three critically injured.
"...You haven't heard about this tragedy because it happened to inner-city poor people in a crack house in Philadelphia. Imagine, for a moment, if this had occurred in a suburban shopping mall or if a Marine unit in Iraq had been involved. There would be shock, outrage, 24-hour news coverage, Senate hearings and a new color of ribbon to wear. That double standard, that triage of compassion and empathy, is why the war on the streets continues unabated.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
What is GSW?!
Gun Shot Wounds
We need more gun control, blah, blah, blah.
My GUESS, from a quick search, is gunshot wound?
Of course, it also has nothing to do with those same North Philly denizens adhering to the ridiculous "Stop Snitchin'" campaign.
One of the reasons this crap keeps happening is no one has the testicular fortitude to actually help gt these scumbags of the streets.
We don’t need more gun control; we need gang control. That’s what the reference to “inner city” means. Gangs.
I lived in Center City, Philly, near the Art Museum in 1969-70. Gunshots every night back then. Never got used to it.
There were places where I wouldn’t stop the car at a street light or red light. You “knew” if you did you wouldn’t be starting up again, and this was in the middle of the afternoon!!! Nighttime I didn’t even wanna think about!
Membership in a gang is and has the same effect as being a member of a terrorist cell. They are domestic terrorists who should be hunted down unmercifully and eliminated.
What we need is free libraries, public education, museums, low cost public housing, that will stop.....
Oh.
Yeah.
Um?
Gun control, that’s the ticket!
Too lazy to type it out?
The war in Iraq is the most horrible tragedy to befall America except maybe the 2nd Amendment or Global Warming or AIDS or name-the-topic-de-jour.
At the end of the day, it is just more emotional, subjective nitwittery.
Best regards,
Bla-bla-bla...
Most people are smart enough to know what it means.
I know that, and you know that, and any rational person knows that, but the MSM and the RATS will always use any crime story to propagandize for more gun control.
THANK YOU ..THANK YOU....FOR POSTING THIS ONE !!!!
I have been saying for a loooong time..we should have a weekley or daily running tally of those killed in the US by gunshot!
This gangsta stuff is what I have called “ Reverse darwinianism “!..we keep the most UNFIT alive with entitlements, etc.
A good school lunch program would fix this.
Oh..btw.. the Libs will say our military didn’t ‘choose “to put themselves in this position. Yeesh.
Little surprised washington compost is running this article. Wonder why?
Warming up for another push for gun confiscation.
Sheesh, while you're at it why don't you give them a free breakfast, too! Oh wait... nevermind.
No doubt these inner city gentlemen will give up their guns if gun possession becomes illegal.
“...More young men are killed each day on the streets of America than on the worst days of carnage and loss in Iraq.
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I’ve often asked liberals why the outrage over military deaths while lip-servicing deaths due to crime.
Talk about speechless . . .
I suppose the jargon is familiar to some.... not me. I had to look it up - thinking it was a gastrointestinal malady!
I feel like I’m going to throw up when I hear about “inner city” violence, as if the “inner city” (i.e., the buildings, streets, sidewalks, trees, parks, etc.) committed the mayhem. Let’s knock off the denial and tell it like it is: it isn’t the “inner city” that’s turned vicious and violent; it’s the inner city’s current inhabitants.
I grew up in inner city Baltimore back in the 1960s, when you could walk almost anywhere night or day (except North Avenue) and enjoy every second of the inner city’s ambience. Now, those same neighborhoods that used to be safe, secure, and, yes, even friendly, are vicious, violent hell holes.
Same buildings. Same streets. Same sidewalks. Same parkes. many of the same trees. Etc. What changed is the inhabitants — and their cultural behaviorial patterns. Maybe it’s time for the inhabitants to get themselves under control and give us back the days when our “alabaster cities gleam(ed) undimmed by human tears.” Now, there’s a thought.
Okay, fire away denizens of denial and shameless race hustlers (but, first, try reading some of Professor James Q. Wilson’s highly erudite works, beginning with this one: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2005/10/words-of-wisdom-from-james-q-wilson-on.html
I like to read about the mafia, and one of the things you see over and over is the people who lived in the nieghborhoods would never turn on the local wiseguys.
These kinds of stories are not given proper attention from the media because they are the reality that has been created by the Welfare state. They are the undeniable truth that Liberalism has not only failed many of those it was supposed to help, but is destroying this country piece by piece.
It's so much easier for the left who forced their agenda upon this nation to ignore the brutal violence they fostered, than to admit they were egregiously and tragically wrong.
That's not going to happen until the Welfare state and the entitlement mentality is destroyed. It has become a "normalized" way of life for so many, that they lack the basic understanding of what "normal" life really is. Furthermore, they don't understand it is within their power to change it, let alone that it is their responsibility to do so.
DOR the SPDJ because SPENF always QDPM and SPQR!! dammit.
Just saying.
DOR the SPDJ because SPENF always QDPM and SPQR!! dammit.
Just saying.
That’s why I’m a firm believer of having state troopers on the 394 bridge in Stillwater shooting everybody with an Illinois or Indiana license plate. That way, more violence is prevented.
“That’s not going to happen until the Welfare state and the entitlement mentality is destroyed.”
Yeah, but there’s another problem. That culture of evil and violence is transmitted from generation to generation, and that is a cycle that has to be broken.
It’s hard to see how that can be done.
“Okay, fire away denizens of denial and shameless race hustlers”
No argument from me.
But denial and political correctness will keep us from doing anything about it.
Hey, did you steal my phrase? I thought I was the only one that used that expression.
it is the OJ force. Black politicians will not persecute blacks on the grand scale necessary to save the Black inner city culture.
:)
That’s true. The liberal justice system with wrist-slaps for felonies is everywhere now, but flourishes in its greatest glory in the big cities.
Most people are smart enough to keep dumbass comments like yours to themselves.
Don’t you watch CSI?
GSW = gun shot wonds
GSR = gun shot residue
PBR = pabst blue ribbon
Maybe a new midnight basketball league!
When reality doesn’t match up with ideology, you can change your ideology or you can change the subject.
Urban diversity acting the way it always does is one of those realities.
“...filling our trauma centers with so many wounded children...”
Gang-bangers are not children.
“Imagine, for a moment, if this had occurred in a suburban shopping mall...”
It didn’t, and it doesn’t. And with good reason; decades of liberal social programs, coupled with the self-serving amorality of the Baby Boomer, “me generation” have eroded the family unit, sent single-family rates skyrocketing, devastated educational standards, and sent crime rates through the roof.
Gang Street Warfare
I think we both know who the dumbass is.
The brothers in the city of brotherly love are killing eachother.
Its a cultural thing and something politicians won’t touch.
I'll second that!
Sorry! I posted #47 before I read yours.
Most people are not very skilled at this game.
It is also not a game that can be played for long periods of time.
It would not be necessary for anyone in the USA to ever learn how to play this game, if we fought against government corruption as is our right and duty under the Constitution.
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