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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said Monday the “availability of guns” has played a key role in the recent rash of shootings across the city.
“I will tell you that from our point of view, mine in particular, that it is about the availability of guns,” Jackson said at a Monday press conference, held to address a weekend of violence that left five people killed, three of them juveniles.
“Availability of guns in the hands of those who are not legally, do not legally have the right to have them,” Jackson said. “And in this case particularly juveniles, children, who have guns and the access they have to those guns and the type of guns that they have results in death.”
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Oh I'm sorry. 1st cup of joe on day off, I thought the title was ''Clever mayor...''
Imagine in my morning fog, trying to figure out the article for the 1st few lines. However, I am still foggy attempting to figure out his bad english, why didn't he also say ''resultses''
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“Availability of guns in the hands of those who are not legally, do not legally have the right to have them,” Jackson said.
Brian D. wrote:Okay good he can set an example by getting rid of his police security detail. They got guns, which Jackson says are bad, right?
Don't see the connection. His security detail is legally empowered to have them. The mayor seemed to carefully pick his words about who he was talking about. Or are there more quotes to this than reported in the news story?
With that logic cars cause drunk driving. The man is a moron!
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Pretty sure Cleveland has a safe storage ordinance. Pretty sure because OFCC has a lawsuit over it (and many other anti-9.68 ordinances). That ordinance has NOT been stopped by the courts yet.
Thus, what we see here is admission that even with the full effect of law behind their good intentions the Mayor and his anti-gun compadres have NOT reduced violence at all. They continue to blame the same things. The logic used to pass the ordinance is now shattered.
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Heaven forbid the mayor and his stooges hold he people actually committing the acts of violence responsible for their actions rather than an inanimate object.
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MyWifeSaidYes wrote:If I lived closer, I would get myself invited to Mayor Jackson's press conferences and pose some pointed questions to hizzoner.
I would buy a ticket to that show!
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Actually, he has the cause/effect relationship revered.
Violence (or the love of it) is to blame for the availability of guns.
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