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Reader Yojimbot offers some photographs and perspective on the Sunday afternoon shooting where two 63-year-old women were injured on St. Nicholas Avenue near West 113th Street. On his blog Harlem Hybrid, he writes, "This is the 4th mass shooting of the Summer of '08, and it is only by the Grace of God, that no one has been killed yet as a result. It was this latest round, which took place on Sunday at 2pm in the afternoon, which was the most disturbing. The block was full of pedestrians and children, and the end result was that two elderly women were caught in the crossfire."
Apparently a man confronted someone else and shot him as he left one building. The other person then fired back. Yojimbot noticed two security cameras, "which hopefully captured the scene." Today, the police said there still no suspects.
There have been a number of shootings in Harlem this summer and just a few weeks ago, Harlem children rallied against gun violence. Two mothers started Harlem Mother SAVE (Stop Another Violent Event) after losing their children to gun violence.
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A GUN IN EVERY POCKET – Probably not what the framers of the Constitution really would intend today.
Emotions make this an endless debate, and solutions will be hard to come by.
http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/08/gun-debate-intent-emotions-reason.html
I beg to disagree PGP. One thing that our Mayor did that really blew the lid off this debate was to use undercover NYPD to investigate gun dealers that sold, in statistically significant numbers, guns to straw purchasers. Technically outside of their jurisdiction, the NYPD still managed to prove that gun dealers were deliberately circumventing the law by selling to people who were with 3rd parties that were consulted during the purchase. Many of these dealers in specific States (Virgina, North Carolina and Ohio) have since settled, admitting no wrong-doing. The situation right now is basically at a stalemate. Pro-gun states are just praying that Bloomberg doesnt run for a 3rd term, while this policy has fallen short of its goal of removing illegal handguns from our young people.
Great post on Harlem Blog and Yojimbot makes a great point.
That's a block away from my apartment. Faaaantastic. I think I may have actually heard it Sunday afternoon - some shouting/screaming - but I thought it was just some kids horsing around.