Police say a 19-year-old was found in an alley shot. The man
was transported to the hospital and died at the hospital.
Investigators say it is too early to know if the shooting
was random, but they do believe it was an isolated incident.
The victim has been identified as Malik Oliver.
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My Godson DeAngelo and I were having sandwiches at Subways late Sunday afternoon. He became quiet and sad; his eyes began to water. He told me why. Malik had been shot and killed that afternoon. It was a tipping point for an idea perhaps old but new to me.
Why not a memorial for victims of gun violence in our nation's capitol similar to the Vietnam Memorial? Of course it would require constant updating since guns in America remain a constant pollutant of the mind.
Why not a memorial for victims of gun violence in our nation's capitol similar to the Vietnam Memorial? Of course it would require constant updating since guns in America remain a constant pollutant of the mind.
Vietnam Memorial
How bad is US gun violence? ....
More
Americans have died from guns since 1968 than in all the wars in US history.
Gun violence in the US isn’t
just bad, it’s uniquely bad in terms of the number of lives that are affected
by it and how rare such violence is in a wealthy country…
Other wealthy countries don’t have as many guns as the US. They
don’t have as many gun deaths as the US. The cumulative number Comparisons can help us to understand scale. Since 1968, when
these figures were first collected, there have been 1,516,863 gun-related
deaths on US territory. Since the founding of the United States, there have
been 1,396,733 war deaths. That figure includes American lives lost in the
revolutionary war, the Mexican war, the civil war (Union and Confederate, estimate),
the Spanish-American war, the first world war, the second world war, the Korean
war, the Vietnam war, the Gulf war, the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war, as well
as other conflicts, including in Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Somalia and Haiti.
(Source: The Guardian)
(Source: The Guardian)
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A blog I penned that defines despot justice as usurpation of a basic state function. I've needed to refer to it much too often.
https://www.wayneblogs.com/2017/11/but-i-repeat-myselfthe-sad-results.html
