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Nationwide dog and pony **** show.

The scariest night I ever experienced was in baltimore after the Preakness a few years back...

I had to keep a brave face for my face who was scared to death...

We walked for several hours around that track at night trying to get a cab or uber after the race..

Never again!
 
The problem with outlawing a configuration of a gun is there are always types that can always be illegally modified to meet whatever spec the perp wants.... and with metal 3d printing getting cheaper and more available this is an antiquated idiotic stance....

Illogical... its not a rational agenda at all... its pissing against the wind wishing to close pandora's box.... it will simply not work... has never worked, and is taking away the spotlight from dozens of more prevalent issues
 
Meanwhile in Baltimore...

Cope will be along soon to tell us Baltimore isn't that violent. Sorry bruh, fellow Marylander here myself. Facts are facts.

Viva La Democratic Rule!!

What's causing Baltimore's population loss? It's no mystery

ith the U.S. Census Bureau reporting yet another year of population loss for the city, it doesn’t take an investigator to determine the causes.

The city’s scary record of 343 homicides in 2017 affirms the city’s well-known reputation as a dangerous place to live. Even if 2018 has fewer homicides, it doesn’t take a fortune teller to predict that this year’s homicide rate will be high. Until the city substantially reduces its homicide and other crimes rates, people will continue to view the city as dangerous and be reluctant to stay or move here.

The city’s outrageous property tax of $2.248 per $100 of a property’s assessed value is more than double of its surrounding jurisdictions: Baltimore County, $1.10, and Anne Arundel 90.7 cents. The city’s burdensome property tax on homeowners explains why the city has more renters than homeowners. The city’s high income tax is 3.2 percent, the maximum allowed by law. Baltimore County’s is 2.83 and Anna Arundel’s is 2.56. The city’s tax message is clear: Move here and pay higher taxes. People have figured out how to avoid the city’s taxes and still enjoy the city. They live in surrounding counties and take reasonably priced ridesharing services into the city.

The city’s public school system is a disaster. Last year, some of the schools had zero students who were proficient in math. A couple of months ago, a few city public schools had to temporarily close because of heating problems. If anyone thinks a family would move to the city or stay in the city because of its public school system, then they have another thing coming. The city’s public school enrollment is on the decline. Families are moving to the surrounding counties so they can send their children to decent schools.

The city’s aged infrastructure is terrible. The city’s random water main breaks, spontaneous sinkholes and desperately needed road work means the cash-strapped city faces many repairs. With costs lurking to fix its dilapidated infrastructure, the money to fund these repairs will either be taken from other services or city residents will have to pay higher taxes.

The mayor and the large part-time City Council are fiscally irresponsible. They accepted a raise in December, even though the city faces major financial troubles. The mayor gets paid around $180,000, the city council president $119,000, the City Council vice president $77,000, and the 13 others each $69,000 — plus all have benefits and all have paid support staff. In 2007, the City Council passed a law that entitles elected officials to receive an automatic 2.5 percent raise if the city budget provides money for union employee raises. The elected officials’ automatic raises and the city’s declining population mean the cost of government increases on those taxpayers who remain in the city. The City Council should repeal the 2007 law and reduce its size because it cannot be immune to population decline.

Baltimore’s elections do not change the direction of the city. In the 2016 city general election, the mayor and the council members all promised change, yet the city is in the same or worse shape since the election. Because city government is controlled by one political party and elected officials have no term limits, voters have little options other than to vote with their feet. The City Council should enact term limits and hold nonpartisan elections.

The city needs bold ideas, so I offer mine. The city should work with the Maryland legislature to turn City Hall and the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. Courthouse into state museums by using both private and public funding. Both buildings have historic feels that are perfect for museums. This would inject more tourism into downtown and bring more people to the area. The city could relocate City Hall and the courthouse to already existing buildings in areas that need development. The city should strongly advocate for a university to locate on Howard Street and run it along the light rail tracks. Students could take advantage of the light rail system. The city should create retirement community zones around hospitals for the elderly. The city could look to Sun City, Ariz., as a model.

As more people move to the surrounding counties, the Maryland Legislature should re-evaluate the city’s borders. It floated an idea two decades ago about merging Baltimore County and city. This would work if the county had control. The county would provide better leadership and management. The Maryland legislature could also revoke the annexation of 1918 and return parts of the city to the better managed Baltimore and Anne Arundel counties. This would offer those areas more resources and better leadership.

If the city doesn’t fix its crime, tax, public school and leadership problems, next year’s census report will be the same.
High tax, high crime, ****** schools, and fiscally irresponsible leadership. The blueprint for big city democrat rule.
 
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The problem with outlawing a configuration of a gun is there are always types that can always be illegally modified to meet whatever spec the perp wants.... and with metal 3d printing getting cheaper and more available this is an antiquated idiotic stance....

Illogical... its not a rational agenda at all... its pissing against the wind wishing to close pandora's box.... it will simply not work... has never worked, and is taking away the spotlight from dozens of more prevalent issues

It’s illogical only if you believe their aim is to keep guns away from criminals.

But if you believe the aim is to disarm the law abiding (the overwhelming majority of guns) while tolerating the relatively small number of guns owned by criminals, then it makes perfect sense.

they will take it little by little. Each time, they get weak politicians to "compromise" on something with guns, thereby cementing the notion that a Constitutional right can be changed with a pen.
 
The scariest night I ever experienced was in baltimore after the Preakness a few years back...

I had to keep a brave face for my face who was scared to death...

We walked for several hours around that track at night trying to get a cab or uber after the race..

Never again!

What? Pimlico is in suburban Baltimore.
 
Pimlico is not suburban. It's well inside the city limits. There is no reason to be in that part of Baltimore at all, unless you're at the track.

Not to mention....the track facilities are a **** hole also!

Grandstand roof leaked (rainy day)...most of the restrooms were closed due to sewage back up....concessions where too far and in between...etc..etc...

Cant believe they still have a Triple Crown race there!

What a dump in a crappy part of town!
 
Meanwhile, utopia marches on in London as Unicorns and pigs fly :flypig: and magic fairies fart pixie dust upon her residents. Happy happy, joy, joy. Peace and happiness to one and all. One giant gun free zone where residents are safe from....

WTF???

Khan’s London: Lead Surgeon Says Hospital Like Afghan War Zone, Two More Killed Overnight

Hospitals in Mayor Sadiq Khan’s London resemble those in a war zone, a senior surgeon working to save victims of the capital’s surging violent crime wave has said.
The shock comments made Thursday morning come after two more men were killed overnight, a couple of days after another night of violence saw a boy, 16, stabbed to death and a 17-year-old girl shot in a “drive by”.

Wednesday night’s killings, both in Hackney, East London, brought the death toll from suspected murder in the capital to 50 so far this year, pulling away from New York City, which London overtook at the weekend.

Dr. Mark Griffiths, the lead surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust in East London, said that knife and gun wounds had moved from a “niche” part of his job to a daily chunk of his workload, and a growing number of victims were “children”.

“Some of my military colleagues have described their practice here as similar to being at [Camp] Bastion,” Dr Griffiths told the Today programme on BBC Radio 4.

“We used to look after people in their twenties. Now people are often in their mid to late teens and children in school uniforms are being admitted under our care with knife and gun wounds.”

He added: “Whereas a young boy being stabbed five or six years ago would have been a horror story, now it’s normal.

“People expect to see people being killed on a daily basis. Members of the public who are not involved in gangs or violence let this pass without comment and you get the society you deserve if you ignore violence.”

On Wednesday, Mayor Khan responded to the crisis by blaming “Tory” cuts to the police, and claiming the crime was affecting other areas of the UK, too.

Meanwhile, Amber Rudd, the Home Secretary, has demanded that social media firms censor online content in response to the crime wave, claiming that deleting videos will help save lives.

A Home Office spokesman said: “Gangs often post videos online that seek to incite violence or glamorise criminality to influence young people.

“The instant nature of social media also means that plans develop rapidly and disputes can escalate very quickly.”

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Do we blame this on the Muslim mayor? Islam is a violent religion. Kahn told London residents to get used to terrorism (aka violence)
Do we blame it on human beings? Remember, take away guns, criminals will find a way to get one (as several of these perps have)
Do we blame it on knives? If guns kill people, well knives apparently have minds of their own now too.

One smart Brit says it's about the culture of gangs and videos posted and escalation - that it's not guns or knives. WTF?? He's simply not liberal enough.

London...more murder than New York City.
 
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On Wednesday, Mayor Khan responded to the crisis by blaming “Tory” cuts to the police, and claiming the crime was affecting other areas of the UK, too.

Sure, like he wants the law enforced against Muslims. :jagoff:
 
Meanwhile, utopia marches on in London as Unicorns and pigs fly :flypig: and magic fairies fart pixie dust upon her residents. Happy happy, joy, joy. Peace and happiness to one and all. One giant gun free zone where residents are safe from....

WTF???

Khan’s London: Lead Surgeon Says Hospital Like Afghan War Zone, Two More Killed Overnight

Hospitals in Mayor Sadiq Khan’s London resemble those in a war zone, a senior surgeon working to save victims of the capital’s surging violent crime wave has said.
The shock comments made Thursday morning come after two more men were killed overnight, a couple of days after another night of violence saw a boy, 16, stabbed to death and a 17-year-old girl shot in a “drive by”.

Wednesday night’s killings, both in Hackney, East London, brought the death toll from suspected murder in the capital to 50 so far this year, pulling away from New York City, which London overtook at the weekend.

Dr. Mark Griffiths, the lead surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust in East London, said that knife and gun wounds had moved from a “niche” part of his job to a daily chunk of his workload, and a growing number of victims were “children”.

“Some of my military colleagues have described their practice here as similar to being at [Camp] Bastion,” Dr Griffiths told the Today programme on BBC Radio 4.

“We used to look after people in their twenties. Now people are often in their mid to late teens and children in school uniforms are being admitted under our care with knife and gun wounds.”

He added: “Whereas a young boy being stabbed five or six years ago would have been a horror story, now it’s normal.

“People expect to see people being killed on a daily basis. Members of the public who are not involved in gangs or violence let this pass without comment and you get the society you deserve if you ignore violence.”

On Wednesday, Mayor Khan responded to the crisis by blaming “Tory” cuts to the police, and claiming the crime was affecting other areas of the UK, too.

Meanwhile, Amber Rudd, the Home Secretary, has demanded that social media firms censor online content in response to the crime wave, claiming that deleting videos will help save lives.

A Home Office spokesman said: “Gangs often post videos online that seek to incite violence or glamorise criminality to influence young people.

“The instant nature of social media also means that plans develop rapidly and disputes can escalate very quickly.”

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Do we blame this on the Muslim mayor? Islam is a violent religion. Kahn told London residents to get used to terrorism (aka violence)
Do we blame it on human beings? Remember, take away guns, criminals will find a way to get one (as several of these perps have)
Do we blame it on knives? If guns kill people, well knives apparently have minds of their own now too.

One smart Brit says it's about the culture of gangs and videos posted and escalation - that it's not guns or knives. WTF?? He's simply not liberal enough.

London...more murder than New York City.

This article is hysteria. 50 so far in a city of close to 9 million people. Both cities have extraordinarily low homicide rates. Both have tough gun laws. What’s your point?
 
This article is hysteria. 50 so far in a city of close to 9 million people. Both cities have extraordinarily low homicide rates. Both have tough gun laws. What’s your point?

Did someone say hysteria?

There are 56 million elementary and secondary students in the US...so far only 80 or so have been killed. The US has tough gun laws.
 
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50 x 4 = 200/year / 9 million = <3 in 100,000 homicide rate. That’s like 1/6th of Pittsburgh’s rate. Afghan war zone?


See post #465 again.


"Afghan war zone" was not intended to be literal. Plus those were a doctors words, and not some writers.

It's a figure of speech known as an "idiom" Trog...used by this doctor to help convey the seriousness of the problem.

Doesn't your mom always tell you that her basement where you live looks like a war zone?


Damn kids, gotta teach them everything.
 
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Yeah it doesn't fit the left-wing template.

No, the statistics in the article don’t support Tim’s narrative. It mentions two cities with tough guns laws and extraordinarily low homicide rates. Tough gun laws working. Tim bought into the hysteria of the headline or he just couldn’t put 50 homicides among 9 million people into perspective. Kinda like the difference between 85 percent and .85 percent.
 
No, the statistics in the article don’t support Tim’s narrative. It mentions two cities with tough guns laws and extraordinarily low homicide rates. Tough gun laws working. Tim bought into the hysteria of the headline or he just couldn’t put 50 homicides among 9 million people into perspective. Kinda like the difference between 85 percent and .85 percent.

Oh no, I'm just fighting Liberal hysteria with similar hysteria. As was pointed out, you know that hysteria about the "epidemic" that is school and mass shootings...which isn't.

Fun game isn't it?
 
Oh no, I'm just fighting Liberal hysteria with similar hysteria. As was pointed out, you know that hysteria about the "epidemic" that is school and mass shootings...which isn't.

Fun game isn't it?

Sure, that’s what you were doing. But never mind that, perception is reality and people aren’t concerned with the numbers per 100,000 but rather how horrific mass shootings are, especially when they involve children. Your side would be wise to realize that and start considering concessions instead of getting all Laura Ingraham on the kids. You’re not serving your best interest.
 
Sure, that’s what you were doing. But never mind that, perception is reality and people aren’t concerned with the numbers per 100,000 but rather how horrific mass shootings are, especially when they involve children. Your side would be wise to realize that and start considering concessions instead of getting all Laura Ingraham on the kids. You’re not serving your best interest.

Oh I am serving our best interests, protecting the 2nd Amendment and our Given Right to self protection.

And we have a solution. Arm the schools and protect them as we do our celebrities, the President, airports, airplanes, court houses, banks, government buildings, etc.

It's really rather simple.
 
This should end well.

City of Deerfield Ill. banning assault rifles...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...t-weapons-fine-those-who-keep-them/488987002/

The ordinance goes into effect June 13 and makes it unlawful to possess, sell, transport or store assault rifles. The weapons are defined as semi-automatic rifles able to accept a large magazine. The ordinance also bans certain models, including the AR-15, the AK-47 and Uzis.

Deerfield residents with assault weapons may sell them, hand them over to police or move them out of the village within 60 days of the ordinance going into effect. There are exceptions for law enforcement officers and members of the military.

Violating the ordinance could result in a fine of at least $250 and up to $1,000 for each day the violation occurs
 
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This should end well.

City of Deerfield Ill. banning assault rifles...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...t-weapons-fine-those-who-keep-them/488987002/

The ordinance goes into effect June 13 and makes it unlawful to possess, sell, transport or store assault rifles. The weapons are defined as semi-automatic rifles able to accept a large magazine. The ordinance also bans certain models, including the AR-15, the AK-47 and Uzis.

Deerfield residents with assault weapons may sell them, hand them over to police or move them out of the village within 60 days of the ordinance going into effect. There are exceptions for law enforcement officers and members of the military.

Violating the ordinance could result in a fine of at least $250 and up to $1,000 for each day the violation occurs

Sure sure, now there will be more Ultaright led whooping cranes headed down here. get ready Spike.

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