Posted on 01/10/2013 10:57:47 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Law enforcement and local politicians from around our region sat down Thursday to talk about the sensitive issue of gun violence, or more importantly, how to stop it.
The Summit to Combat Gun Violence was actually planned a year ago, but it couldn't have been more timely in light of the mass school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak called the gathering a "midwest discussion" that brings "midwest values" to a national debate.
Held at the Depot Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel, those assembled were a who's who of Minnesota leadership. Also in attendance: their counterparts from Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri and other states.
But it was hard not to focus on Sami Rahamim, whose father Reuven was killed during the Accent Signage massacre last year. "Our lives were destroyed and our families ripped apart. We hope to see some serious change in our communities," Sami said, as he took the podium during a press briefing.
Still, the focus of this summit was less on the mass shootings like Accent and Sandy Hook Elementary, and more on what leaders called "slow motion mass murder"--the gun killings regularly seen in urban areas.
Sami was entirely supportive. "It's just overlooked as, you know, that kind of thing it happens every day," he said.
Summit attendees stressed their need to be able to better trace ownership of every gun used in a crime. "When I'm at a murder scene and I'm standing with the mother over the body of her dead child, she deserves to know where that gun came from," Rybak said..
They talked about a need to move a larger law enforcement presence into locations where crime has occurred before, and then keep those officers there. According to Minneapolis Police Chief Janee' Harteau, "We know that locations are five times more likely to be predictable than people. We will look at people and places together to really identify those hot spots and keep our efforts in those areas."
When Congressman Keith Ellison spoke, he outlined three changes he'd like to see to make streets safer:
1. Reinstate the assault weapons ban, that lapsed in 2004.
2. Fully implement in-state criminal background checks so felons can't buy guns online or at gun shows.
3. Limit the amount of deadly ammunition shooters can hold in a single magazine.
The presence of so many law enforcers, attorneys and politicians in one place was an impressive show of force, but not the kind you usually associate with law enforcement leaders. And Sami, for one, was impressed.
"We want to try to save people's lives," he said, "which is really one of the most basic functions of government."
The summit attendees don't plan to release any definitive, written conclusions. They simply said they'll take what they discussed, go back to their jobs, and work toward developing some tangible proposals that they can ultimately bring to legislators.
The concepts and ideas discussed today will also be forwarded to Vice President Joe Biden as part of the national anti-gun plan he'll present to President Obama.
1. Reinstate the assault weapons ban, that lapsed in 2004.2. Fully implement in-state criminal background checks so felons can't buy guns online or at gun shows.
3. Limit the amount of deadly ammunition shooters can hold in a single magazine.
That's interesting considering that Keith Ellison is a supporter of Hamas.
NOVEMBER 18-20, 2006 : (NAIF CONFERENCE : EVENT PROGRAM INCLUDES PHOTO OF KEITH ELLISON D-MI {See CAIR} STANDING ALONGSIDE 1993 WTC BOMBING UNINDICTED CO-CONSPIRATOR IMAM SIRAJ WAHHAJ aka JEFFREY 12X OF THE BROOKLYN CELL ... & AL QAEDA WEB DESIGNER & HAMAS SUPPORTER MAZEN MOKHTAR— See “FLYING IMAMS”)
That "BOSNIAN RELIEF COMMITTEE" by any chance wouldn't have been involved in any arms smuggling during the Bosnian war, would it?
c 1998 : (WASHINGTON DC : CMSA BEGINS HOLDING FRI PRAYERS.....-———See CMSA COFOUNDERS KEITH ELLISON D-MN {NoI} & ANDRE CARSON D-IN, FUTURE GUEST SPEAKERS ANWAR AL AWLAKI {See YEMEN, FT HOOD SHOOTINGS, ARKANSAS RECRUITER SHOOTINGS, UNDYBOMBER, DENVER CEL, SANDIEGO CELL, FALLS CHURCH CELL}, RANDALL “ISMAIL” ROYER {See CAIR}, ANWAR HAJJAJ {See TIAA}, ETC.) ———— “Some Muslims Attending Capitol Hill Prayer Group Have Terror Ties, Probe Reveals,” foxnews.com ^ | Nov. 11, 2010 | Jana Winter Posted on Thursday, November 11, 2010 4:44:27 PM by Free ThinkerNY
IF Sami Rahamin thinks that daily crime is “overlooked” by the average citizen, he is crazy.
It is a determiner of where a lot of people go to show or won’t go because of a fear of place as a high crime area.
My wife does’t want me to go to a shopping center in Prince Georges County because it is largely filled with black youths. I have had no problems in going there for years but there are other nearby places even blacks don’t go to if they can avoid it.
Read the DC newspapers every day and you will see that crime is widespread, but hitting the black communities the hardest with the most shootings and killings.
The Hispanics are more gang-oriented or payback for supposed offenses to some girl they hardly know.
The Amish don’t bother anyone.
However, if Sami is right that some people are ignoring the daily crime in their cities, let’s look and see who it is. I’ll bet ten to one that they are Democrats at the federal and state level, and some at the local level (some do care but the controlling leftists don’t listen to their proposals to curb crime, or they would have been adopted years ago).
I’m sure that Jesse Jackson (any of them) and Al Sharpton really give a damn about crime, right? Hardly considering they are criminals themselves with their using extortion threats and mob violence to get shake-down month from corporations, to egg on mobs that attack and kill Korean grocers in NYC, and to attack the right of innocent, law-abiding citizens to own a gun to protect themselves and their families/businesses/friends.
Some of us care but the Democrats make sure that our voices are not heard where it counts.
Those days are no officially over!
And don’t forget, Jesse Jackson has said on record that he feels safer around whites. when he’s on a staircase and hears someone coming down and he sees it’s a white person, he’s relieved. Jesse knows blacks are more dangerous and he actually does his own - common sense - profiling.
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