Street shooting leaves 4 dead, 3 wounded in New Jersey

New Jersey has some of the strongest gun laws in the US. But that doesn't mean much when other nearby states have weaker laws. New Jersey police's GUNStat reports show that eight of 10 guns used in crimes come from out of state.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.njspotlight.com/2019/07/19-07-23-state-data-provides-sobering-glimpse-of-illegal-guns-in-nj/amp/

So far this year in this city, 15 people have been killed and another 60 wounded in 45 shootings, similar to spikes in violence in a lot of cities across America.

“I want to be clear that we will have zero tolerance for violence in our city,” Mayor Andre Sayegh said in an email Wednesday. “Both prevention of loss of life and public safety are paramount to my agenda and I will personally engage in the process to curb these types of heinous incidents, which steal our young residents and instill fear in the community at large. This must end today.”

Maybe if elected Democrats would stop releasing criminals from prisons, and jails, there would be less violence, instead of more? Maybe if elected Democrats reintroduced actually assigning bail for those the police have been arresting and re-arresting, there would have been less violence? Maybe if elected Democrats weren't trying to defund the police forces, there would be a lot less violent crime than there is now? Maybe if Mayor What's-his-name stopped blaming the police for the unlawful acts being committed by criminals, rioters, and looters, he wouldn't have an increasing crime problem to whine about?

Apparently a gang related crime. But don't worry, no need for police to investigate. A team of crisis workers from city hall will be there in the next few days to help the families of the victims in their grieving process.

Attila,

Why not both?

Always the guns "came from another state" is used as an explanation. Unless there are political points to be made off the identity of the shooter.

Blacklabel

For others perhaps. I don't know much about politics, so I rarely discuss them, preferring to approach shooting events from the angle of gun control. For which I kind of fall in the middle.

For political point-scoring, find someone else.

Blacklabel: "the shooter". No mention of a single shooter is made.

Many of these drive-by shootings are from cars or motorbikes. What is the best way to defend against a hit'n run attack like that?

What is the best way to defend against a hit'n run attack like that?

Move to a place where there aren’t more guns than people?