Posted on 08/16/2007 1:49:58 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
CINCINNATI - Mayor Mark Mallory is refusing to fire a starter pistol to kickoff an upcoming road race, saying he doesn’t like the gun’s symbolism in a city that set a record for homicides last year.
Mallory said he’ll blow a whistle at Saturday’s Rhythm Race 5K instead. A pistol filled with blanks is traditionally used to start races and track meets.
"I think the symbolism is just bad," he said. "It’s just something I don’t do."
Mallory made the comment Tuesday while condemning last weekend’s fatal shooting of a man near a youth football tournament held to promote nonviolence in Cincinnati neighborhoods.
Earnest Crear, 19, was in a group of young adults when he was shot just outside the field where hundreds of community members were watching children ages 6-12 play games in the "Peace Bowl." Three suspects fled the scene, police said.
Organizers of the Rhythm Race 5K, which raises money for neighborhood redevelopment projects, said they’re fine with Mallory’s decision.
"We’re just happy to have the mayor," said Elizabeth Sherwood, president of the College Hill Forum, a neighborhood group. "I don’t care if he wants to bang pots and pans together."
Cincinnati had 89 homicides last year, seven more than anytime since city police began keeping consistent records in 1950.
I agree w/ the Mayor. I’d use a 12 gauge.
When they called roll in school he probably answered, “Present.”
I was hoping he’d at least use a slingshot, maybe a lawn dart.
He also throws like a girl.
Really, there’s a youtube of it.
What a moron.
The mayor is a girlie-man.
That is one of the funniest things I have ever witnessed.
Oh, it’s that guy? I remember that! That was just awful!
He could drop a pink hanky.
What an idiot
Has anyone informed the idiot that he isn’t expected to shoot anyone in the head, just fire a starting shot with blanks?
Will he at least stick his finger in the air and say “BANG”?
You realize that Jerry Springer was himself a Democratic Mayor of Cincinnati?
Instead he will drop a dainty lace hankie in the color of pink. The swish sound that it makes as it falls gently to erf will be the signal to commence running.
No way!
("I hate when that happens" ping :-).
Remington 870 with a deer barrel and rifle sights smooth bore in 12 Ga. WooHoo.
Let me just be the first to say - bwahahahaha!
No, the symbolism is correct. A gun is a tool used for many things. Things such as protection, hunting, and sport. The homicides are the result of 6 trillion dollars spent in destroying self-worth and the value of life via welfare and social programs.
I am always amazed how soft liberals are on crime and criminals, yet they constantly try to take away honest citizen ability, nay right, to defend themselves.
LOL - apparently I was actually the second to say Bwahahaha!
More proof that half-wits of all sorts can be elected mayor of a major American City. (Sanctimonious half-wits, socialist half-wits, affirmative action half-wits; brains are completely optional in the mayor game.)
The mayor has a problem with a starter pistol?
Well, I have a problem with the race itself. To me, racing symbolizes running. As in running away from the law.
This race symbolizes crooks, thugs and punks.
He should just call off the race all together.
For the sake of political correctness, doncha know.
Sorry, Jon Corzine and Michael Bloomburg already got the title.
Its not the instrument - its the person using it.
Idiot.
Maybe if more people had guns they could stop the homicides.
And to think Cincy was once a conservative city.
A cannon would be heard by all!
Crazy. That's the NYC equivalent of 2,150 murders.
New York is on course to have 406 murders this year, or the Cincinnati equivalent of 17.
People are dying and this is the best he can do?
I agree. Get a gangbanger to fire the shot to kick off the race. That would be very symbolic in his city.
Run the race at night in the Northside section of Cincy, and you’re sure to hear a gun shot to get it started....
Damned idiot! I don’t like the symbolism of a jerk running a city.
How about a race official kicks him in the nuts, and when he keels over the race starts...?
What a child.
To best represent the spirit of the city, all runners should start with their shorts pulled halfway down their butts.
What a moron.
Gun controllers going goofy...
LOLOL.
Clearly folks, we have a winner!
So many jokes (jokers?), so little time.
Someone needs to check the local pawn shops for a lost set of nuts, and advise the Mayor’s office when their found. It may not be too late to re-attach them.
Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory: Winner of the coveted “Les Nessman Turkey Drop Award”...
Because he’s full of so much hot air, he should fart. Certainly would be heard on the starting line.
The mayor has mental issues. If someone is stabbed to death, will he stop using a knife?
No, the swish sound the pink hanky makes as it falls gently to earth will be the signal to commence mincing and sashaying. Led by the mayor.
;^)
im sure the mayor’s courageous stand will send a subtle yet dramatic message to the city’s criminals that from now on guns are simply taboo no matter their use. this, of course, will have the eventual effect of causing said criminals to look at their own guns with that feeling of general nausea. gun crime will come to an end in cincinatti.
Feelings, nothing more than feelings
Trying to forget my feelings of love
Teardrops rolling down on my face
Trying to forget my feelings of love
etc, etc, etc,
Well, I've got concealed carry and I do not go downtown, even in daylight, unless I'm carrying. It ain't as safe since thas it used to be for sure.
I do not understand all this increase in crime in the black inner cities with their black democrat mayors and police chiefs
Besides I thought MIDNIGHT BASKETBALL and FARAKAN’S MILLION MAN MARCH solved the problem
What happened ?
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