Teen shot 18 times while waiting for bus in Philadelphia

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A 14-year-old Philadelphia boy waiting for a bus to take him home from school was shot 18 times and killed Monday afternoon, police said.

Samir Jefferson was waiting at a bus stop shortly before 3:30 p.m. Monday in a North Philadelphia neighborhood when
two unknown shooters fired at least 36 shots, a Philadelphia police spokesperson said in an emailed incident report.

Police said Jefferson was shot 18 times throughout his body. The boy died at a local hospital a short time later.

The incident report said no motive for the shooting was known as of early Tuesday.

https://www.indianagazette.com/news/teen-shot-18-times-while-waiting-for-bus-in-philadelphia/article_1a1a53ae-967f-59ce-9809-687d5304c252.html

[Wounded Bear]

1. It's like we're living in an IRL version of Grand Theft Auto...

who needs a motive?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. The Cons and the Qons will say: "See! Democratic cities are hellholes". But

Death by gunfire by county. Red is the bloodiest counties. Notice a pattern?

[marble falls]

4. Got a link? I'd like to read up on this more before I drop it on gunsters.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Yup. CDC via OregonLive. Mostly suicides

https://www.oregonlive.com/data/2015/10/where_do_americans_die_by_gunf.html

https://projects.oregonlive.com/ucc-shooting/gun-deaths

Note: the scales on the three maps are not the same, which is misleading and overweights homicides in the last map.

[marble falls]

8. Thanks. Suicides are gun violence, too ...

Another friend sent me this.

Basically the same information, but with a screwy explaination:




https://www.recoilweb.com/geographic-evidence-that-gun-deaths-are-cultural-162216.html

Gun Deaths are Cultural
BJ Campbell

It's worth a cursory reading just to see the knot where their logic takes them to admit to the gun violence and still justify gun ownership by everyone.

[Celerity]

9. I would not use that, it is deaths per 100,000, includes suicides, and is out of date (2004 to 2010)

Small pop counties' rates are easily skewed upward by a few deaths.

https://projects.oregonlive.com/ucc-shooting/gun-deaths

[marble falls]

10. Suicides by firearms are gun violence, too.

[Celerity]

11. yes, but they are not as clear cut, plus the other points I made still stand

[Nictuku]

6. Is there a web page that goes with that link by chance?

I'd like to see the data behind it if possible (before I repost it on a different platform)

[BlackSkimmer]

3. That city seems out of control. nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. And a DU member posts the Con angle I posted about that I expected from Cons. . . . nt