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Ongoing gun violence/injury thread

Inside the Federal Bureau of Way Too Many Guns
Anytime a cop in any jurisdiction in America wants to connect a gun to its owner, the request for help ends up here, at the National Tracing Center, in a low, flat, boring building that belies its past as an IRS facility, just off state highway 9 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in the eastern panhandle of the state, a town of some 17,000 people, a Walmart, a JCPenney, and various dollar stores sucking the life out of a quaint redbrick downtown. On any given day, agents here are running about 1,500 traces; they do about 370,000 a year.

“It's a shoestring budget,” says Charlie, who runs the center. “It's not 10,000 agents and a big sophisticated place. It's a bunch of friggin' boxes. All half-ass records. We have about 50 ATF employees. And all the rest are basically the ladies. The ladies that live in West Virginia—and they got a job. There's a huge amount of labor being put into looking through microfilm.”
I want to ask about the microfilm—microfilm?—but it's hard to get a word in. He's already gone three rounds on the whiteboard, scribbling, erasing, illustrating some of the finer points of gun tracing, of which there are many, in large part due to the limitations imposed upon this place. For example, no computer. The National Tracing Center is not allowed to have centralized computer data.
“That's the big no-no,” says Charlie.

That's been a federal law, thanks to the NRA, since 1986: No searchable database of America's gun owners. So people here have to use paper, sort through enormous stacks of forms and record books that gun stores are required to keep and to eventually turn over to the feds when requested. It's kind of like a library in the old days—but without the card catalog. They can use pictures of paper, like microfilm (they recently got the go-ahead to convert the microfilm to PDFs), as long as the pictures of paper are not searchable. You have to flip through and read. No searching by gun owner. No searching by name.
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How many of those black people who killed black men got a paid vacation and were not punished for their crime?

Keep missing the point.
 
PhDeac said:
How many of those black people who killed black men got a paid vacation and were not punished for their crime?

Keep missing the point.
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Maybe 60%? What is the unsolved murder rate in inner city Chicago?
 
60% get a paid vacation? 60% have been identified as the killer and get off?
 
What are the lies? I just see some loosely related statistics.


By the way, I get pissed when I read her articles because I have an old friend by the same name who's cool as shit and hot as hell.

I'll counter by posting a more relevant article by a guy who reminds me of one of my favorite college QBs. He managed to lead Tulane to an undefeated season.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...te-men-conservatives-silent-article-1.2632965

71% of cop killings in 2016 were by white men. Do you think they were inspired by BLM?
 
Of course. Anti-gun violence movements already existed in black communities across the US.

BLM started not as a result of the deaths of black people but the fact that non-black people weren't being punished for killing black people.

But keep ignoring this simple fact.
 
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/28/us/south-carolina-elementary-school-shooting/index.html?adkey=bn

(CNN)At least two children were shot Wednesday at an elementary school in Townville, South Carolina, Anderson County EMS Director Scott Stoller told CNN.

"Right now we are still developing information. We are still treating patients. One of the children was life-flighted to Greenville Trauma Center, Stoller said.
The shooter is in custody, according to Sheila Cole, spokeswoman for the Anderson County Sheriff's Office.
Developing story - more to come
 
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