Baltimore County NAACP calls on Hogan to deploy National Guard to Baltimore

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Baltimore County NAACP calls on Hogan to deploy National Guard to Baltimore

The Randallstown's chapter of the NAACP is urging Gov. Larry Hogan to declare a "public emergency" and deploy the National Guard to Baltimore in an effort to quell rising gun violence in the city.

"This violence in the City of Baltimore is a crisis and up to this point, the government has been unable to quell the violence. Under an emergency declaration, the Maryland National Guard could be assigned to handle routine patrols, direct traffic and respond to accidents, freeing city officers to be in the community, serving the backlog of violent warrants, solving homicides and other violent crimes," the group wrote in a letter.
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It would be a slippery slope for the state budget, perhaps it would make more sense for Baltimore to hire more police.
 
ipatent said:
Baltimore County NAACP calls on Hogan to deploy National Guard to Baltimore

The Randallstown's chapter of the NAACP is urging Gov. Larry Hogan to declare a "public emergency" and deploy the National Guard to Baltimore in an effort to quell rising gun violence in the city.

"This violence in the City of Baltimore is a crisis and up to this point, the government has been unable to quell the violence. Under an emergency declaration, the Maryland National Guard could be assigned to handle routine patrols, direct traffic and respond to accidents, freeing city officers to be in the community, serving the backlog of violent warrants, solving homicides and other violent crimes," the group wrote in a letter.
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It would be a slippery slope for the state budget, perhaps it would make more sense for Baltimore to hire more police.
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Historically the National Guard is only called out for policing assistance when the local police are overwhelmed and there is an overwhelming need to meet the violent criminal element with gunfire. Keep in mind that the National Guard are a military organization and not cops.

Basically the NAACP is calling for an armed military response to the crime in Baltimore. This is quite a divergence from the earlier "defund the police" nonsense.

The expectation in the letter that "the Maryland National Guard could be assigned to handle routine patrols, direct traffic and respond to accidents, freeing city officers to be in the community, serving the backlog of violent warrants, solving homicides and other violent crimes" -- is not what the National Guard is used for. The idea that the National Guard will be called out to violent city and used for directing traffic and responding to accidents (probably with tickets) -- while the police focus on the suppression of violence is not how things are done.
 
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It would be a slippery slope for the state budget, perhaps it would make more sense for Baltimore to hire more police.
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Or republicans help get guns off the streets.


The commen denominator in most murders and mass murders is guns.Thats where the focus should be.
 
Tony Stark said:
Or republicans help get guns off the streets.


The commen denominator in most murders and mass murders is guns.Thats where the focus should be.
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The Republican solution is to get the criminals with guns off the streets.
 
Mercor said:
The Republican solution is to get the criminals with guns off the streets.
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Since Columbine Republicans had 8 years of Bush and 4 of Trump with both having control of Congress yet kids are still being slaughtered and The US has the highest gun violence rate in the developed world:rolleyes:
 
Mercor said:
The Republican solution is to get the criminals with guns off the streets.
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Y'all are doing a great job:rolleyes:


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(CNN)People can debate the need for more or fewer armed guards at American schools, the use of active shooter drills and the wisdom of the idea that maybe even teachers should be packing heat.

But there's one thing that is indisputable in the available data on gun violence -- and the data is limited since until recently the federal government was effectively barred from gathering it.

The indisputable fact is that where there are more guns, there are more gun deaths.

This is true despite Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's attempt to explain away gun deaths at the elementary school in his state this week by comparing them to gun violence in Chicago.


"I hate to say this, but there are more people who were shot every weekend in Chicago than there are in schools in Texas," Abbott said on Wednesday, arguing stricter gun laws are not a solution.




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Texas suffered 4,164 gun deaths in 2020, the most recent year for which the CDC has published data.

That's a rate of 14.2 deaths per 100,000 Texans.
California, by comparison, saw 3,449 deaths, a gun death rate of 8.5.


California, by comparison, saw 3,449 deaths, a gun death rate of 8.5.

Texas does not have the highest gun death rate, however. Far from it.

The top states by gun death rates are:



  • Mississippi -- 28.6.
  • Louisiana -- 26.3.
  • Wyoming -- 25.9.
  • Missouri -- 23.9.
  • Alabama -- 23.6.
  • Alaska -- 23.5.


Here's where the lack of good federal data haunts us. It's hard to find solid gun ownership rates. The RAND Corporation, a non-profit research organization, has tried and published data on average gun ownership by state between 2007 and 2016.

All of those states with the highest gun death rates are among the ones with the highest gun ownership rates.

  • Mississippi -- 50% of adults live in a household with a gun.
  • Louisiana -- 48%.
  • Wyoming -- 59%.
  • Missouri -- 48%.
  • Alabama -- 50%.
  • Alaska -- 59%.


Where there are fewer guns, there are fewer gun deaths. The states with the lowest gun death rates in 2020, per the CDC (alongside the percentage of homes with a gun in 2007-2016, per RAND) were:



  • Hawaii -- 3.4 (8% of adults live in a household with a gun).
  • Massachusetts -- 3.7 (10%).
  • New Jersey -- 5 (8%).
  • Rhode Island -- 5.1 (11%).
  • New York -- 5.3 (14%).


The advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety, which endorses stronger gun laws, takes the CDC data ongun deathsper 100,000 residents and puts that alongside each state's gun laws. The states with lower gun violence ratesare mostly among the states with the strongest gun laws.

Conversely, with the exception of Louisiana, the states with the highest gun death rates and highest gun ownership rates are among the states Everytown says have the most lax gun laws.
 
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