And here it come

[PhilipNolan]

My dog understands the issue better than you do.

[toreyj01]

I beg to differ.

[Samm]

@toreyj01

@conan

Cities like Portland who basically turned the city over to criminal element that crawled out and commits crimes, shooting etc.

“Gun violence has plagued our city at twice the rate of last year,” he said. “On average, someone is shot in Portland roughly every two days.”

How soon will libs be demanding gun confiscation? And atrocities that will be done in their name to carry it out?

Portland police seeking community collaboration amid shooting, murder surges | Fox News

Once every two days? That is less than 200 total incidents of gun violence for the entire year, that doesn’t seem like a crisis to me. And it was half that the year before. They have a population of over 650k people, so it isn’t like this is a small town thing.

I don’t see how this is larger than even some Red Cities like Tulsa.

Am I missing something here, or is this just " Blue Cities baaaaad"?

Yes. Apparently you missed this part:

“Gun violence has plagued our city at twice the rate of last year,”

[WuWei]

Tulsa is a strange place and has some problems. Always has.

[WuWei]

@PhilipNolan

My dog understands the issue better than you do.

That wasn’t very nice.

[Samm]

@FloridaYankee

Are they still rioting? Surely the numbers will drop when that ■■■■ settles down.

The murders and the rioting are related, but they are not connected.

[Samm]

@conan

Couple decades ago Portland was a nice city.

So was Seattle. Even San Francisco and LA were nice cities once.

[Samm]

@conan

Bend has changed so much in last couple decades.

Yes, since it was discovered, it has become the haven for urban flight. Now it is probably destined to be as bad as the places those immigrants came from.

[PhilipNolan]

It wasn’t meant to be, It’s not a hard concept to grasp. What is different in Portland Oregon between 2019 and 2020. Pandemic & protests. The local government’s anemic response to the looting and rioting has enabled people in Portland to take the law into their own hands with limited consequence. and that is why shootings are up 100+%. As for toreyj01’s contention that Tulsa Oklahoma has 100 shooting deaths a year is wrong, the average over the last 6 years has been closer to 61 than a hundred. Be that as it may, any area that has an increase of that nature is a cause for concern.

[WuWei]

Well, try to be a little nicer please.

[altair1013]

@WildRose

Get away from our blue cities and you will avoid those issues.

The Red burbs. The most peaceful places on Earth. The libs hate this fact.

[Eagle-Keeper]

@EternalVigilance

I don’t see any issue here. Those residents voted for Progressive Democrats that aren’t shy about their desires to defund law enforcement, disarm the public, and abolish prisons, so they should they welcome the increased murder rate and violence as a sign that social justice is working.

The beauty of progressive liberal utopia.

[Mountain_Soldier]

I’m laughing!!!

This is what people in their city want…

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler pledges to 'push back harder' against Antifa after...

Just an idea, right?

[WuWei]

Looks like they’ve lost control they never had.

[Camp]

Interesting timing.

It was OK when they ran him out of his condo in the summer.

[Tom_Ch]

@altair1013

@WildRose

Get away from our blue cities and you will avoid those issues.

The Red burbs. The most peaceful places on Earth. The libs hate this fact.

I’m in suburb outside Chicago. Very blue and fairly affluent. No problem here.

I don’t think it’s red or blue as the problem. More about wealth.

[Paul_Thomson]

@toreyj01

Tulsa has roughly a hundred shooting deaths a year and they only have 400k people,

How many are suicides and how many are homicides and how many are accidents?

[PhilipNolan]

According to Tulsa PD, it’s more like 61 homicides per year, and they really don’t break it down as to manner of death, or if they do it’s buried deeper than I’m interested in looking.

[Samm]

@Paul_Thomson

@toreyj01

Tulsa has roughly a hundred shooting deaths a year and they only have 400k people,

How many are suicides and how many are homicides and how many are accidents?

If I lived in Tulsa, I’d be tempted to shoot myself too.

[WildRose]

You’re only off by around 30%.

https://www.tulsapolice.org/content/crime-numbers-ucr.aspx