Posted on 01/14/2019 6:14:03 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Liz G. Rodríguez Quiñonez grew up schooled in being able to throw her body to the floor in the middle of the night, in the event that stray bullets from a nearby shootout came crashing through her window.
But it was only this past fall when Ms. Rodríguez, who operates a food truck in a town just east of the Puerto Rican capital, experienced her first murder: Standing by the stove in her truck one morning in September, she heard a series of pops, then screaming, and realized that the man who was the intended target of the gunfire was standing right behind her truck. She ducked — thanks to the training from her youth — but there was no hope for the man, who died only a few feet away.
It was not yet noon.
“I saw the dead body. He was around 30 years old. It was horrible,” Ms. Rodríguez, 30, said with a shudder.
Puerto Rico has long had one of the highest murder rates in the country, almost all of it attributable to gang violence. But a recent spree of brazen daylight killings, some of which were captured on video and widely shared on social media, have shaken the population and worried local and federal law enforcement officials who thought they had seen everything in the roiling, populous city of San Juan.
On Jan. 6, several men engaged in a morning shootout on the service road of a major thoroughfare in Isla Verde, near the airport, leaving one man dead. On Wednesday morning, a gas station security camera in Dorado captured a gunman in a ski mask who calmly walked up to a Honda, fired at its driver and left.
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Democrat paradise. Film at 11.
Did it spike right after a sh!tload of congress critters went there on a taxpayer funded lark during the shutdown?
Democrats are down there on vacation. They should be rounded up as suspects.
Or better yet...Victims.
But I jest. Ish.
Did any of the Dem legislators buy the farm?
The guy from Hamilton said the peurto ricans are “resilient”. Get resilient and take care of your societal oroblems.
It just shows that too many guberment people in one place drives people to kill each other and or themselves.
This is all Trumps’ fault.
Sounds like a liberal utopian paradise of democrat values.
Well, the democrats are visiting !
Democrats arrive and crime goes up.
Typical
We were supposed to go to PR on the 21st, we cancelled (not because of that) but my girl is from PR and did mention the violence. Her nephew just got back to the US from a week visit, said he almost got mugged walking home.
Must be the Democrats and Hamilton actors.
Twenty-five years after Puerto Rico made headlines by sending its National Guard to patrol urban neighborhoods, the island is still one of the most dangerous places in the world, even with steady declines in violent crime.
So what is the message?
Obviously what they need is more gun control since
Too bad Puerto Rico isn't an island were the bad guys can't get guns - oh wait it IS an island. They obviously need more restrictions on the law abiding citizens and maybe a ban on plastic drinking straws too.
Puerto Rico is simply a residual colony from the late Age of Imperialism. We should do the right thing and grant them complete independence.
Quinonez. I wonder how it is pronounced. KEE nwa nez? Or kee NO nez? Liberals see KEE nwa nez. Like the South American legume.
Let me guess.
They have gun control and the citizens are unarmed.
So the criminals just go ahead and ignore the laws, as criminals are wont to do, and go on their killing sprees without free of repercussions.
They "only" have the gun control listed in post #16 From a Democrat viewpoint these are only a minimal "first step"
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