2-year old shot while watching TV

[SecularMotion]

Standing a few hundred feet from a north side home where a 2-year-old boy was shot in the back while watching TV, Mayor Tom Barrett and Police Chief Edward Flynn urged citizens Thursday to help police confiscate guns and pressured state legislators to pass new gun legislation.

"We need our citizens and our legislators to help us make this a safe city," Barrett said at a news conference at the corner of N. 4th St. and W. Vienna Ave. Barrett urged citizens who know of others illegally carrying firearms to call police with that information.

Flynn and Barrett both said they planned to press their case for gun legislation on Friday when Walker is expected to be in Milwaukee to sign legislation that provides additional money for the Milwaukee Police Department's ShotSpotter program. That program employs sensors that capture the sound of gunfire and relay the location to police.

"Right now, understandably, legislators don't want to touch gun laws because then it's a visit to Crazy Town," Flynn said. "And they are worried about that." He added that opponents of gun legislation put intense pressure on legislators and are well-financed.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/shots-fired-from-alley-into-milwaukee-home-wound-boy-2-b99244985z1-254735201.html

[hack89]

1. Illegally carrying a gun should be a felony.

There was however, this snippet of good news:

Flynn said that, to date, nonfatal shootings in the city were down 5% compared with the same period last year, gun seizures are up 12% and homicides are down 38%

As in most cities, the are seeing a steady decline in violent crime.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Great news, crime falling, also in the OP that tools are being used to track bad guns.

We really do need to get the guns out of the hands of the bad people, and then take measures to see that the bad people stay behind bars.

We've been too soft, going after nonviolent offenders, like drug users, and letting others off the hook.

[ileus]

3. Disarming citizens doesn't make them safer.

Funny how making victims is job one.

[otohara]

4. What Does This Mean?

making victims is job one and why is it funny?