At least 32 people were shot, four fatally, in weekend gun violence across Chicago, police said. Twenty-one of the shootings happened between Saturday night into Sunday morning. Read that again, as of Sunday morning. The weekend is not 'over'. More gun laws would have prevented this.
Number of gun deaths per 100,000 residents in the United States in 2023, by state
www.statista.com
... In recent years, gun violence in the United States has become an alarmingly common occurrence. From 2016, there has been over 10,000 homicides by firearm in the U.S. each year and firearms have been found to make up the majority of murder weapons in the country by far, demonstrating increasing rates of gun violence occurring throughout the nation.
As of 2023, Mississippi was the state with the highest gun violence rate per 100,000 residents in the United States, at 33.9 percent, followed by Louisiana, at 29.1 percent. In comparison, Massachusetts had a gun violence rate of 3.4 percent, the lowest out of all the states. ...
Speaking of Grace, the following song comes to mind...
(probably totally unrelated, but here it is...)
The Strawbs - Grace Darling
www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt...
genius.com
...
You have been my lighthouse
In every storm
You have given shelter
You have kept me safe and warm
And in my darkest nights
You have shone your brightest lights
You are my saving grace
Darling, I love you
[Verse 2]
You have been the pilot
Who guides me home
You have been the my rock
As on the seven seas I roam
And when I was becalmed
You were the strength in my arms
You are my saving grace
Darling, I love you
[Interlude]
And when I found my back
Was torn and broken on the reef
You sailed your tiny boat
Across the dark seas of my disbelief
[Verse 3]
You have been the anchor
And I the chain
Straining as we hold ourselves
Together in the rain
I have found you ever there
My constant keeper's daughter fair
You are my saving grace
Darling, I love you
...
Wow, they don't write lyrics like that anymore....
...
You have been the anchor
And I the chain
Straining as we hold ourselves
Together in the rain
...
I mean, just friggin' wow.
OK, imo, the Strawbs are a most underrated group of the 70's.
Here's the full intro to the above tune...
Strawbs - Remembering; You And I (When We Were Young); Grace Darling
www.youtube.com
Another tune that comes to mind when I hear "Grace"
Judy Collins & The Global Virtual Choir - Amazing Grace (1970)
www.youtube.com
An awesome rendition of that song.
imo, of course.
The people who say if we stop talking about racism, then racism would go away.
- snoofy
The Paradox of Diversity Trainings
www.theatlantic.com
Science is your friend snoofy, embrace it.
Or are you a theocratic promoter?
"Put more simply, perhaps 15 percent of humans are psychologically ill-suited to dealing with difference"and when DEI-industry programming deliberately raises the salience of race in a given organization with the intention of urging anti-racism, the effect is to exacerbate differentism." www.theatlantic.com
That tracks. Deplorables make up about fifteen percent of the population.
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