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A Month of Killing, More on the Way?

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That's the title of a post by Norm Stamper at Huffington Post.  LINK  He's a retired Seattle police chief and a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.Today, if I stare off into the middle distance and let it happen, images of homicide victims queue up, most of them cops I knew, and children. It's been a bad month for both. "Bam, bam, bam," begins New York Times reporter Timothy Egan's April 8 must-read blog, "The Guns of Spring." Each interjection represents a dead cop: the three Pittsburgh officers recently lured to a residence and gunned down by a man with an AK-47 and several handguns. The second of Egan's paragraph starts with four bams (the Oakland cops slain on March 21), the third with five bams (for each child murdered by their own father here in Washington State), the fourth with 13 bams (the Binghampton, N...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 14, 2009 (boomark / email).