RadioBanter - It Time To Confiscate Guns

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On Aug 7, 1:53 am, BDK wrote:
In article om,
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How many more kids are going to have to die before this nation wakes
up and joins the civilized nations of the world and ban guns? IT IS
TIME TO STOP THE INSANITY NOW!!!

Insanity would be thinking that the crooks would give up their guns.
It's sad that those kids were killed, but my guns sit in the safe, not
hurting anyone.

Contact your Representative and Senators and demand legislation before
another child needlessly dies. DO IT TODAY!

Oh yes, it's for the children...sorry. Way more die in car accidents
daily than die from guns, so why not ban cars first?

Forget it.

BDK

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Schoolyard Killings Shock Newark, New Jersey
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By DAVID PORTER
Associated Press Writer

Posted: Aug. 6 9:32 p.m.

NEWARK, N.J. - In a city where gun violence has become an all too
common part of daily life, these shootings were enough to chill even
the most hardened residents: Four young friends shot execution-style
in a schoolyard just days before they were to head to college.

Three were killed after being forced to kneel against a wall and then
shot in the head at close range Saturday night, police said. A girl
was found slumped near some bleachers 30 feet away, a gunshot wound to
the head but still alive.

The four Newark residents were to attend Delaware State University
this fall. No arrests had been made by Monday and authorities had not
identified suspects.

The shootings ratcheted up anger in New Jersey's largest city, where
the murder rate has risen 50 percent since 1998. The high number of
killings have prompted billboards in the downtown area that scream,
"HELP WANTED: Stop the Killings in Newark Now!"

"Anyone who has children in the city is in panic mode," said Donna
Jackson, president of Take Back Our Streets, a community-based
organization. "It takes something like this for people to open up
their eyes and understand that not every person killed in Newark is a
drug dealer."

The killings bring Newark's murder total for the year to 60, and put
pressure on Mayor Cory A. Booker, who campaigned last year on a
promise of reducing crime.

Jackson said Booker "doesn't deserve another day, another second,
while our children are at stake."

Booker said Monday that it was "not a time to play politics and divide
our city." A $50,000 reward was being offered for information leading
to the arrest of those involved, he said.

A month ago, Booker and Police Director Garry McCarthy announced that
crime in the city had fallen by 20 percent in the first six months of
2007 compared to a year ago. Yet despite decreases in the number of
rapes, aggravated assaults and robberies, the murders have continued.

Natasha Aeriel, 19, was listed in fair condition at Newark's
University Hospital. Police identified her slain companions as her
brother, Terrance Aeriel, 18, Iofemi Hightower, 20, and Dashon Harvey,
20.

Authorities believe the shootings were a random robbery committed by
several assailants and that some of the victims may have tried to
resist their attackers. They were piecing together details of the
attack from interviews with Natasha Aeriel.

Hightower and the Aeriels had been friends since elementary school and
played in the marching band at West Side High School. Terrance Aeriel,
known as T.J., took Hightower to the school prom in 2006, chauffeured
by his sister.

At Delaware State they met Harvey, another musician, and struck up a
friendship. Friends and family members said the four were not involved
in drinking, drugs or gangs. They liked to congregate at the school,
which sits in a middle-class neighborhood less than a mile from the
campus of Seton Hall University, to hang out and listen to music.

Harvey's father, James, said Monday the parents of the assailants were
to blame.

"If you raised your kids better, this would not happen," he said.

Hightower worked two jobs and recently enrolled at the school. One of
her jobs was at Brighton Gardens, an assisted living center in nearby
West Orange, where her mother also worked.

On the afternoon of the killings, she told her mother she planned to
spend the night at Natasha Aeriel's house near the Mount Vernon
School.

"The last time I heard her voice was Saturday night," Hightower said
between sobs. "She called me from work to let me know Natasha was
going to pick her up and she was going to spend the night. She told me
she loved me."

The Aerials' mother, Renee Tucker, said the last time she saw them was
around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, when they told her they were going around
the corner to get something to eat.

"They said they were going to come right back to the house," Tucker
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BDK - And More Babies Are Aborted {Killed} Every Year :
Then All Other Causes of Infant and Child Deaths [.] ~ RHF
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Yeah, but abortion opponents will never be able to stop all abortions
either. I think a reasonable compromise would be to ban all abortions
after a certain point. It would stop a lot of them if it just wasn't so
convenient in the first place.

BDK