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jjhunter5/2 ursamajor: the violence that doesn't get headlines in boston
Via the same post, this quote from Brandeis prof. Eileen McNamara:ursamajor: Fried chicken and a hail of bullets
(Guess what the total is now...)
ursamajor: the violence that doesn't get headlines in bostonSince April 15, the day of the bombings, Boston has had 28 shootings. Roxbury *alone* has had 14 people shot, five of them murdered.
Via the same post, this quote from Brandeis prof. Eileen McNamara:
We are very particular in this country about the kind of violence that mobilizes us to talk — if not act — about public safety and gun control. The slaughter of little children in a Connecticut elementary school. The carnage in a Colorado movie theater. An assassination attempt at a Tuscon shopping mall. An act of terror at the Boston Marathon.6/3
The more insidious and persistent violence, that spawned by gangs and drugs and poverty and despair, barely registers on the consciousness of those with the good fortune to live outside the battle zone.
ursamajor: Fried chicken and a hail of bullets(Guess what the total is now...)
