Rochester Hills, much like Ann Arbor, is generally thought of as “safe as houses”. Our time is short in the western Metro for a horrific mass-shooter event.
At this point, it is quite clear that the biggest problem is guns. Unfortunately guns are not the only problem. It’s been obvious based on the sheer number of women and girls targeted and murdered by mass shooters for a long time (a good 20 years, now) that also a huge problem is misogyny.
A 33-year-old and a 28-year-old were transported to a local hospital with “life-threatening injuries,” police said.
The two children, ages 4 and 9, were brought to the hospital with “non-fatal injuries.”
Saving everyone a click: the reason the police didn’t issue an alert for 12 hours is because it took them 12 hours to figure out that there had been a mass shooting.
People are mocking his comments, but THAT’S WHAT IT MEANS TO THINK HISTORICALLY… To be able to see the deeper roots of social/cultura/etc problems in a society, trace them back and pinpoint them, and then MAKE DIFFERENT CHOICES…
Cross-posted to the BLM thread…
[ETA] Also, he did not BLAME Nixon so much as he blamed a difference in policy decisions between Johnson (who sought to tackle such issues as Black poverty in cities) and Nixon who was much less robust on that particular issue (he did have some affirmative action policies and supported the formation of the EPA).
The Gun Violence Archive, which tracks mass shootings involving four or more people regardless of whether they died, shows June, July, and August have had the highest total number of mass shootings over the past decade.