About 400 people on Thursday attended the funeral of Savonie McNeil, father of six, shot dead at the Trumbull Gardens housing project last week. What can be done to prevent more carnage? CT Post reporter Bill Cummings has more:
“There is too much gun violence and too many guns,” Finch said. “He has six kids and he was working hard. He wasn’t at the wrong place at the wrong time. They were at their houses.”
… “There is still no police presence there,” Ganim said. “We need a command center there. The woman who was shot in her shower is terrified. We have made some calls and are trying to help her move out.”
… “It’s a tragedy what happened that night,” Foster continued. “There should be leadership in the community or a conversation about how we can prevent this. Nine people being shot is an outrage.”
More here.
Today is June 19, and let me repeat, no arrest, no description of the shooters, no leads, nothing, no information to let the community help in finding the two shooters. Who’s in charge of policing Trumbull Gardens and the other public housing projects, the local police, the BHA, who? Back in the 1970s Bridgeport Police wouldn’t go into Father Panik Village because it was federal housing so the police said they were not responsible for policing thereby during dealing ran wild. Then the housing police was created but they had no arrest power. Mayor Finch and the Police Chief are not bringing any comfort and aid to the residents in that area. People are scared to death and are living in fear every day. Next, where in hell is the outrage, it’s like business as usual, where is the NAACP, the IMA, the business community?
One dead and eight wounded here, nine DEAD in Charleston South Carolina. How many more deaths and needless suffering do we as a nation have to endure before the elected officials on Capitol Hill in good ol’ Washington DC, stand up to the gun culture and the National Rifle Association? Connecticut is among the northeastern states with the strictest gun laws in the USA. It doesn’t matter. Any enterprising soul with a wad of bucks and no scruples can jump into a car, head down I-95 to North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia or Kentucky, stop at the first gun shop and purchase a truckful of firearms to be sold on the street for a 200% markup.
It’s funny how tragedies in our most needy neighborhoods somehow always get turned into promotions for “AGENDAS.” I DON’T SUPPORT GUN CONTROL OR AM I AGAINST IT, I DO BELIEVE IF THE OTHER NINE PEOPLE IN THAT ROOM OR EVEN HALF OF THEM HAD GUNS IT WOULDN’T HAVE HAPPENED OR IT WOULD HAVE HAD A DIFFERENT ENDING. I personally don’t like guns, but I support a man’s right to arm himself (it’s in the Constitution). What I really abhor though is the use of tragedies to further anyone’s agenda.
The pain you see in these photos is real. Mayor Finch claims to be against gun violence, however he brings Bass Pro to Bridgeport which sells guns and has a partnership with the NRA.
Let’s not forget the National Department of Labor has a pending lawsuit against Bass Pro for discriminatory hiring practices against blacks, Hispanics, Asians and women.
Why would you bring a disgraceful company like this to Bridgeport, and place it in the neighborhoods with the highest crime rates and greatest number of minorities? Do not listen to what politicians say, watch what they do.
If Bass Pro is being sued for discrimination then is it possible this store is being built in the neighborhood that will help them most with their defense?
Bass Pro is being built at record speed, seven days of construction. The mayor and Blumenthal can’t wait to have the cameras rolling. No talk of the luxury movie theatre, which I think is a bad idea. Remember the incident at the bow tie theatre. This venture will bring together the East Side boyz, West End and North End factions, which have present disagreements that are simmering.
Hector, you can’t be more wrong about the people’s right to keep and bear arms. Also about tragedies becoming an AGENDA. It is the proliferation of guns that is killing people to the tune of over 300,000 a year. My sister was killed by a kid with a gun trying to shoot another kid with a gun; you know, wrong place wrong time. During the almost 30 years since this happened, her four children, her parents or her brothers and sisters have never asked, was the gun legal or illegal, was the gun purchased or stolen or was the gun purchased in Connecticut or North Carolina. We didn’t give a damn where it came from; we just know we all lost a piece of our heart that day.
Remember when there was a supposed war on drugs, our President and Congressional leaders did everything in their powers and with unlimited resources to stomp this problem out and drugs have never killed as many people as guns per year.
Our Senate and Congressional leaders can stop the selling of guns tomorrow if they were so inclined. How you may ask?
In United States v. Cruikshank (1876), the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that, “The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence” and limited the applicability of the Second Amendment to the federal government.
In United States v. Miller (1939), the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government and the states could limit any weapon types not having a “reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia.”
I’m going to leave you with this quote from General Colin Powell.
“Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.” Good leadership involves responsibility to the welfare of the group, which means that some people will get angry at your actions and decisions. It’s inevitable if you’re honorable.
I think you will find this very interesting.
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Jon Stewart Addresses Charleston Shooting in ‘Daily Show’ Monologue