Holiday week shootings add to troubling trend of drive-bys

[mia]

The shootings added to a troubling trend this year of drive-by shootings in Miami and Miami-Dade County’s north end. Though major crimes are down overall in most cities around the nation, including Miami, anecdotal evidence seems to suggest there has been an uptick in in drive-by shootings claiming multiple victims.

And most seem to have a common theme: A shooter pulls up to a crowded scene in a car, steps out and unleashes a torrent of bullets from a semi-automatic weapon into a group of people, often with little or no regard for the innocents surrounding the intended target.

The majority of the shootings remain unsolved....

In the past two weeks, 18 people have been shot in drive-by shootings. Two have died. A teen with a bullet wound to his head survived.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/deadline-miami/article4994082.html#storylink=cpy

Sad about what is happening in my corner of the world. Steven Shipp states the situation well: "It could be a better world if attitudes would change and people could see things in a different way."

[Fred Sanders]

1. 300 million guns in America. Of course folks are going to be using them and the cops terrified of

them.....so many killing machines are gonna do what killing machines were intended to do.

More than a third of Americans say they or someone in their household owns a gun. There are by various estimates anywhere from 270 million to 310 million guns in the United States — close to one firearm for every man, woman and child.

[mia]

2. Sometimes I think that some, among the powers that be,

are hoping for a long, drawn out civil war on the streets of the United States. The stage is being set for this to happen.

[Fred Sanders]

3. The country is primed for it, most countries need to get armed first for a civil war..America comes

preloaded, even the police that would be first to deal with such a war.

But you know what? I think Americans in general are too lazy to ever start an actual real war, seems like they can barely get up for a cyber war let along a real one.

America has an appetite for only one thing, domestically, and it comes with an order of fries, and a dollop of screaming inanities in comment boards...

[mia]

4. That's reassuring.

I want to think about your interpretation instead of my own.

[Fred Sanders]

7. Thank you. Far too many NRA apologists and love of killing machines around here. It is disgusting.

[pipoman]

5. 300,000,000 guns and 10,000 non suicide deaths with guns annually...

Including defensive shootings and accidents...Seems a lot of broken "killing machines" out there....

[Duckhunter935]

6. thanks for the

perspective. This same thing happens in the gun control paradise of Mexico.