Thought y'all would be interested in this.
Hey, North Carolinians … are ya in? For that matter … how about SC and Kentucky? Virginia is kind of a lost cause at the moment, but we can surround and effectively moot their infringements.
I don't see Bloomberg in a bad light here. On the whole, I don't like the man, but in this clip he's on the money.
If you put the cops in minority neighborhoods because that is where the majority of the crime is occurring and you institute stop and frisk there, you get guns out of the hands of criminals.
Where I think he is wrong is in making it so hard for non-criminals to obtain firearms and to transport them as needed.
I've passed several background checks and am a senior citizen who cannot defend himself on the street without an easily accessible lethal weapon. But the moment I bring my firearm in NYC I risk being arrested for felony firearm possession.
I have to chose between risking my life to see my elderly mother in law or risking an innocent contact with the local police ending with MY incarceration and the bankruptcy of my family.
I see the first two comments were regarding abductions. WERE they abducted or were they running away to escape danger at the Home for Children?
They may have already been kidnapped … by the state.
They have relatives at several places in the county … why weren't they placed with the relatives to start with?
The two Garcia girls are 15 and Hispanic. It seems that their extended family would have been willing to give them a home and, this past year, hold their quinceria (sp?) celebration (the 15th birthday is considered the female "coming of age" in that culture).