Eight killed in bloody weekend in Baltimore

[Rosa Luxemburg]

Source: Baltimore Sun

Juanita Walker stood just steps from where her son was killed two days earlier and addressed a crowd of at least 100 people, sobbing and yelling to be heard.

"Y'all young people, you think because you're young that it might not be your time," she told the crowd at a candlelight vigil Sunday for Andre Witherspoon, 27. She said she spoke to her son 20 minutes before he was shot, just after 1 p.m. Friday in the 900 block of Ducatel St. in the Reservoir Hill neighborhood.

"We all get caught up. The environment told him, tricked him, made him believe that he had to go this way," she said. "My heart is heavy because I know he got four kids."


At least 20 people were shot in 12 incidents across the city from Friday afternoon through early Monday morning. Eight of those people — two women and six men — were killed.


Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-weekend-violence-20130623,0,6005178.story#ixzz2XAc3CvJL

Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-weekend-violence-20130623,0,6005178.story

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Baltimore was a war zone at the weekend. 20 people shot and 8 killed and no major headlines!!!

I guess nobody cares?

[pscot]

1. God bless the NRA

[melm00se]

3. and yet, according to the Brady Campaign,

Maryland is rated as 7th best when it comes to gun laws

http://www.bradycampaign.me/sites/default/files/2011_Brady_Campaign_State_Scorecard_Rankings.pdf

[pscot]

6. But Virginia and Pennsylvania

have lax gun laws, and West Virginia has no restrictions.

[former9thward]

8. There is no state that has "no restrictions".

And federal law applies in all 50 states.

[AgingAmerican]

9. Guns don't kill people

People with guns do.

[nomorenomore08]

12. Maybe so, but with the number of gun-related murders and accidents, it's rather obvious

that many Americans can't be trusted with a firearm. Therefore, to save such people from themselves, and protect the rest of us, we need stricter gun laws. Period.

[KamaAina]

14. People with guns

kill a hell of a lot more people than people without guns.

[AgingAmerican]

15. Guns don't kill people

Bullets do...

[Nimajneb Nilknarf]

2. That area went from uninhabited, to genteel, to a hotbed of crime in just 200 years.

It's very sad.

[demosincebirth]

4. Human life to some is just like stepping on a bug. What a shame.

[SoCalMusicLover]

5. Just Another Weekend

America.....More Guns, Less People.

[maindawg]

7. Summer is here

City's never sleep.
The way to solve this problem is through education. Not more laws, not more police. More teachers, more schools, more community involvement. People dont aspire to be criminals ,to be in shootouts,to serve time in prison. They have no other choice. they are exluded from society. There are no more unskilled jobs because we shipped them all to China, and Vietnam. No more small factiries who supported the larger factories. No more local businesses to cater to the people who worked for the small factories that supported the large factories. They are gone. Boarded up Burned down rubble. Just poor people live where there is nothing else. The young men are frustrated and angry. Its hard to grow up in poverty. To have little, and worried by the time you are 8 years old. On top of your other teenage issues its more than anyone can handle.
These kids suffer from PTSD by the time they are 16 years old.
This is all so that we can buy tires for 65 dollars. Nike shoes for 29 dollars. A kayak in Wallmart for 129 dollars. Thats why they are killing one another in Baltimore.
Wait till it catches up with the rest of us.

[RedstDem]

10. actually the number dead is 10

at least thats what was reported this morning..

sad

[ErikJ]

11. Scarface culture

When a sub-culture worships the fictional hero Scarface and gangsta rappers then you will get alot of macho foolshness especially when excess guns, drugs and money are combined.
More money is needed for community foot police, mentoring programs, gun confiscation and after-school programs.

[nomorenomore08]

13. Yeah, it's all that "gangsta rap" that's at fault. Way to sound out of touch.

Though I do more or less agree with your last sentence, at least...