Tobacco companies have both something to sell you and are losing business. [[except for the vapers) What is Clark County sheriff Joseph Lombardo trying to sell you and why is he losing business?
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Guns carried by law-abiding concealed carry permit holders I’m sure.
Obviously they aren't law-abiding. They could be licensed for concealed carry. Even if they aren't licensed, it is highly likely that the gun was originally purchased through a legal means, and somewhere along the line, through loophole or negligence, the gun ended up in the wrong hands.
Tl;dr, it is too easy to get guns.
As someone who just moved back to Michigan after living in Las Vegas for 11 years there has been plenty of violent acts besides the October 1 shooting that happened. There have been shootings, armed robberies and some girl mowing down people on the sidewalk that all happened on the strip. This doesn't include all the incidents the hotels don't let the public find out, Las Vegas isn't the place I would use as an example of an entertainment district with little violence.
The result is exactly the same.
First of all, it seems you are probably mistaken. As far as I can tell, most criminals get guns through straw purchases and/or corrupt gun dealers. I find widely varying percentages of guns used in crimes attributed to stolen guns, between 10-30-odd%, but not a nearly a majority.
Second, it seems to me like usually if a gun gets stolen, it is at least partially negligence. You shouldn't be leaving guns around where people can steal them. Also, gun owners seem to lose a lot of guns, or to not notice when they are stolen, which is also negligent, so they don't report them stolen, which is one reason it is hard to tell exactly how many are stolen vs. lost.
"He started with the ATF in Detroit, infiltrating street gangs."
http://www.businessinsider.com/heres...e-a-gun-2016-8
NIBIN is what I'm after...but...this is IBIS Brass Trax:
http://www.ultra-forensictechnology.com/ibis
"The data in NIBIN are bottlenecked - there are not enough
ATF agents..."
https://nij.gov/journals/274/Pages/w...ove-nibin.aspx
"Microstamping" would be another helpful improvement:
http://lawcenter.giffords.org/gun-la...ng-ballistics/
To sum these notes up: One could approve of every American
adult being issued a gun by the Federal government - there would
have to be a court hearing to disallow the ownership of a gun by a
particular individual - and allow everyone to open carry them in
public - it would make some of us feel much safer and PROBABLY
would have no impact on the crime rate. HOWEVER along with that
we SHOULD implement microstamping and rapid tracing techniques
in order to identify and locate those who misuse their firearms.
The gun lobby's footdragging on technological improvements for
solving gun crimes bothers me, not so much the idea of everyone
having a gun.
Most on here along with the general public know what the problem is. Hoods brought up in broken homes with NO morals or values. Unless these people are neutered for a full generation the mentality will continue to live and be passed on. Add Pot to the drinking and heat mix.
Totally pisses me off. I really enjoy Detroit and what’s happening down there but when I hear this shit it makes even this hardcore city lover think twice.
Please, the whole downtown is not all that horrible, I live two blocks away from Greektown, for 21 years, and walk it daily, its the nicest its ever been with tons of people all over, I also go out at least 3 to 4 times a week in the evening, most of downtown is actually quite fine, Greektown is fine during the day, but I’m just not crazy about the quality of the weekend evening crowds so I stay away from that area, there is tons of other areas to go downtown , whether it be Campus Martius, downtown on Woodward, the belt, broadway area, Capitol Park, all the way up Woodward, near Cobo Center, Midtown, your children hardly have to run away after they go to a ball game , that’s just ludicrous . There are thousands of people of all types all over downtown existing safely, Greektown definetly needs some attention though in the evening anymore. I liked it better when they closed Monroe weekend evenings into a mall two years ago.
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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...car/659102002/
Gun safety laws are so lax that even a stupid politician can leave his gun in his car, have it stolen, and describe himself as a victim.
That statistic, echoed through the media, comes from one guy working at the ATF. It hasn't been verified, peer reviewed or confirmed by independent researchers.
Getting data for this is pretty difficult. If someone is caught with a gun, do you think they are going to say "yeah I stole it from someone"? They are going to say they bought it at a store, or from a friend. It's up to the police to track down where the gun came from. Sometimes they go through the work of tracing the serial number to figure it out. Sometimes they don't.
And if you read the very informative articles Dumpling shared, you'll learn why getting the data is so difficult. The NRA has successfully pushed to make it hard even for law enforcement to trace where guns come from.
Why do you think they don't want us to know?
Never said that. It's unverified. It very well may be true but the available data is difficult to process. I could be wrong. Show me the data and I'll accept the conclusion. As it is the best data I could find was this site:
https://www.atf.gov/about/firearms-trace-data-2014
Which comes with this disclaimer:
"The firearms selected do not constitute a random sample and should not be considered representative of the larger universe of all firearms used by criminals, or any subset of that universe"
Which is interesting, as a Washington Post article on the subject took that data and did just that:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.fedb859b04f6
With the redevelopment of so many other neighborhoods and districts, itÂ’s been sometime since the wife and I have spent a weekend night in Greektown. Last night we thought we would pay our old hangout a visit.
We were very surprised by how much Greektown has changed over the course of the last 10-15 years or maybe we have just aged. It has become a hangout for gangster wannabes, other show off types, clubbing 20 year olds, etc. Cars blaring their subwoofers and bass. Police on every corner to control the crowds and make sure the rowdiness was kept in check. At least on a Friday night thatÂ’s what we experienced. Either we have aged or this neighborhood has changed.
No, your instincts were correct. The neighborhood started to radically transform once the temporary casino opened.
Honestly, the area should be renamed. There are so few Greek places left, all but one suck, and the neighborhood is characterized by the casino and the weekend street scene.