South Bend Common Council President and 3rd District Representative Sharon McBride has issued a statement regarding the increase in gun violence:
As President of the South Bend Common Council, and 3rd District
Representative, it is imperative that I speak out regarding the increased gun violence in our community. It must stop! For it to stop, we must all come together and work collaboratively. This is not a neighborhood issue, but a city-wide issue.
In the past three years there have been 53 fatal criminally assaulted shooting victims in South Bend. That is just the tip of the iceberg. In the same three years, there have been 363 non-fatal criminally assaulted shooting victims. Even this number does not tell the whole story. It does not include accidental shootings such as the one on Diamond Avenue last week.
Regardless of the cause, the result is the same. People die or are seriously injured. Families are torn apart. People go to prison or are forever impacted by grief and trauma. Gun violence have touched each one of us in some form or fashion.
If you see something, say something! Use Crimestoppers if you are more comfortable doing so.
Everyone needs to play a proactive role. It’s too late after a shooting occurs. We must each do whatever we can to prevent a shooting from happening.
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Typical misdirection BS from the left. Isn’t it odd that this statement is made right when Fake Potato Biden starts blathering about gun control? It’s almost like this dim bulb from South Bend is parroting the party line.
South Bend’s violence problem is not limited to guns, and she needs to stop pretending that it is. Maybe it’s time to address South Bends culture of violence and crime as a whole, instead of just singling out one component of it to fit the agenda.
Guns are only tools and nothing more. They can and are used for great good, at least 2-million times each year, but unfortunately some use them for harm. Any inanimate object can be used to commit violence on someone else. The problem is the grey matter between the ears. Let the councilman pontificate on how to do that. If he can then we might get somewhere else. Otherwise he is just a very dull tool.
Arrest the bad guys.
Prosecute them.
Convict the guilty ones.
Put them in jail.
Leave them in jail.
Crime and violence destroys lives, families, property values and a city ( Look at poor Benton harbor) Culture must be changed at a young age where life is valued. One solution, lock away violent youth offenders and give them intensive help to change. If you allow violent people among nice folks, they will prey on them like wolfs on lambs . When religion was scrubbed from society which values self control, people felt no more constraints on violence
Let’s look at something else like our movies and video game that are used to desensitize the kids and young adults to killing. Let’s also bring back gun education like there used to be when I was a kid. We don’t try to educate people about guns and they think it’s neat to have a gun like in a movie and they have had no gun exposure at all or education. A gun is no different than a knife or an arrow or a spear it is a “TOOL” not an entity that is good or evil, it is the person that picks it up that decides how it is used. People say the violence will end if there are no more guns no it won’t because then you have stabings that happen and have happened where multiple people have been hurt and killed, so are we going to ban knives then? How about people getting killed by cars? Do we then ban them also? Let’s put the blame where it belongs with the person who picks the tool up and decides weather it will be used for good or evil. If they succeed in disarming the public that will open this country up to being attacked by a evil and unjust government or a foreign country.
How could there be a gun problem in South Bend? All of our guns sneak across state lines and cause all the crime in Chicago so say the politicians.