A 2-year-old girl was among six people shot when a car drove past a playground and sprayed it with bullets, the third time this month that a toddler has become a victim of a summer spate of shootings across New York City.
2-Year-Old, Five Others Shot in Brownsville
A 2-year-old girl was among six people shot when a car drove past a playground and sprayed it with bullets, the third time this month that a toddler has become a victim of a summer spate of shootings across New York City.
None of the victims of Sunday evening’s shooting in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn was killed, but the incident illuminated the problem of gun violence in a city where overall crime has seen a steady decline for years, but where shootings remain stubbornly resistant to the trend.
Earlier this month, a 4-year-old boy, Lloyd Morgan, was shot dead on a playground in the Bronx, and a man was wounded. Two men and a 17-year-old boy have been arrested in that incident and charged with crimes that include murder and criminal possession of a weapon. A week earlier, a 3-year-old boy was shot in the leg when shots rang out as he played outside. He is back at home recovering.
Advocates of tighter gun control, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg, say the incidents underscore the need for tougher laws to keep weapons off the streets and out of potential criminals’ hands. New York has some of the country’s strictest rules governing the purchase and use of guns, but Bloomberg says other states’ laxer laws permit people to bring guns over state lines into New York. The car allegedly used in the Sunday night shooting had Florida license plates.
Bloomberg, the co-founder of a coalition of hundreds of U.S. mayors pushing for tighter gun control called Mayors Against Illegal Guns, called on President Obama and Mitt Romney to stand up for new gun laws after the Aurora, Colo., theater shooting that killed 12 people.
“You know, soothing words are nice, but maybe it’s time that the two people who want to be president of the United States stand up and tell us what they are going to do about it, because this is obviously a problem across the country,” Bloomberg, an independent, said during a radio interview with WOR radio in New York on July 20. Listen to the entire interview here.
The issue of how to curb gun violence sparked sniping from across the Hudson River, where New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie accused Bloomberg and other elected officials of trying to “grandstand” on the Aurora shooting. “I’m not going to be one of those people,” said Christie, a Republican and strong Romney supporter. “Can we at least get through the initial grief and tragedy for these families before we start making them political pawns?”
yechi
Stop supporting chevras ahavas yisroel and there will be peace.
who cares
they are all criminals give them guns and let them kill each other
shlucha
To #2. The children playing in a playground or in their front yard are NOT criminals. It is terrible that mothers have to fear taking their kids to a park. Guns kill. The stupid excuse that people kill and not guns is moronic. People use the gun to kill. Remove the guns from them and killing becomes more difficult.
Here in Australia where we have strict gun control we tend not to have deranged people shooting randomly for fun.
DeClasse- Intellectual
The Mayor refuses to recognize what the basic issues are: In Bloomberg’s city, criminals seems to have more rights then law abiding citizens and the liberal justices do not put the criminals away when they need to do such. Second, the police are ineffective-their record of showing up when all the smoke has cleared is all too obvious repeated practices(possibliy they have still the unoffical quto for tickets requirements). third, the gun laws in place are not effective to reduce crime because criminals have guns no matter how much stricter you make the gun laws. Finally, it has been shown, that we the citizenry is armed and has been trained in the proper use of guns, violent crimes decrease time and time again.
To yechi
Was their peace before CAY existed?
Rochi
to #1:
thats real ahavas yisroel, that will surely make moshiach come!
I dont go to cay either, but I dont dislike them.
To #2
What are you talking about!? Who are ALL these people who are killers? Are you kidding me?! You wish all of them to be dead? Do you know what you sound like? Oh, my G-d, what a horrible thing to read on his site, one that comes from people who are taught to do good and tikkun olam. And the fact that you call all of “them” murderers is an irrational and prejudiced comment. How would you like it if someone called all Jews (fill-in-the-blank)?
Chanie
If I were a single mom (as most of them are) working hard and trying to raise my kids right (as most of them are), i would get my family out of that city faster than a speeding bullet (pun very much intended). The probability of being hit by a stray bullet in the US is 0.000103% (I could have easily made up a number, but I actually trawled a bit to find the statistic. You’re welcome, ch.info readers.) And I bet the probability in certain parts of Brooklyn is closer to 0.00103% (okay that I totally made up. But my point is, it’s a lot more likely.)
If I needed to work 80 hours a week, I would do it, just to get my kids away from the thugs who don’t respect human life enough to consider a playground off-limits for a friendly game of “kill the other gang’s members”.
Milhouse
#3, In Australia criminals know that their victims are not armed, so they can do whatever they like. That’s why Australia is now the most violent country in the Western world; 30% of Australians have been victims of a crime. In Australia burglars break into houses when the people are home; that is almost unheard of in most of America, because burglars know that the residents might have guns, so they break in only when nobody is home.
Chanie
If I were a single mom (as most of them are) working hard and trying to raise my kids right (as most of them are), i would get my family out of that city faster than a speeding bullet (pun very much intended). The probability of being hit by a stray bullet in the US is 0.000103% (I could have easily made up a number, but I actually trawled a bit to find the statistic. You’re welcome, ch.info readers.) And I bet the probability in certain parts of Brooklyn is closer to 0.00103% (okay that I totally made up. But my point is, it’s a lot more likely.)
If I needed to work 80 hours a week, I would do it, just to get my kids away from the thugs who don’t respect human life enough to consider a playground off-limits for a friendly game of “kill the other gang’s members”.
SYEP
No more Summer Youth = kids with nothing to do & more summer crime.
hashem yerachem!
in stead of arguing go do some tehillim!!!!!!!!!
that will surely help!
DeClasse- Intellectual
#12, Hashem helps those who help themselves–remember at the Red Sea, Hashem told Moses that there was a time for prayer and a time for action. Saying Tehillim will help, but if the evil prepertuators of crimes know that the intended victium might shoot them, then those who committ evil might turn away instead; just the threat of facing a Colt 45 has stopped many a crime. If you need a reference source, I can provide it.
To #1 and #2
To #1 Do you find yourself funny? It’s because of ppl like you that my friends and I (yes some are from crown heights) now hate religion.
To #2 – do younfindvyourself funny? I was in 2 shoot outs last labor day. It’s a miracle I wasn’t shot as I was only 25 feet away from a gun man ducking under a car and praying I’d make it home alive and unarmed. When your being shot at …. It is the SCARIEST moment of ur life. I’m an adult …. I can’t imagine kids feeling like that
Jewish dude
Where is the police fixing tickets maybe? Or drinking a beer i have seen that more then once. Instead of giving law abiding citizens permits for pistols to defend them self’s they will go trough any length to take them (firearms) away from you.
awacs
“Hashem helps those who help themselves–remember at the Red Sea, Hashem told Moses that there was a time for prayer and a time for action. ”
That was a peculiar moshel to draw, DeClasse – Hashem told the yidden there to do nothing ….
helene
everything that happens is cays fault, wake up and smell the coffee stop being so ignorant