"run along back to the gungeon"

so then the argument can be that one never posts anywhere BUT the gungeon.

see how that works?

I am stealing that - except for the monkey -

My man must have a mule!

lol. where is that link?! That was some funny shit.

Lloyd Blankfein can kiss my poor white ass.

Dedicate a Song To Meta

~is she singing this song~

a piss poor, rotten, no good, bad, terrible, horrible, muthafucka of a day.

I really don't know how many more of them I can take.

Something's gotta give.

pretty damn meta.

wonderful day !! ---

Study: CeaseFire Model Can Stop Epidemic of Gun Violence, Replicated in Baltimore

New research released today reinforces the concept that gun violence can be reduced and prevented by taking a public health approach to the problem. Findings from a study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health show that shootings and killings in even America’s most violent communities can be reduced using the CeaseFire model—a model that employs disease control and behavior change strategies to reduce violence. CeaseFire employs ex-offenders who have unique credibility with community members and effectiveness in getting people to rethink the impulse to resolve disputes using guns.

Safe Streets Baltimore was launched by the Baltimore City Health Department in 2007 as a CeaseFire replication site, and research released today represents the first rigorous study of a replication of the CeaseFire model. In Baltimore, researchers found the Safe Streets program cut homicides by more than half in the Cherry Hill neighborhood. An earlier Department of Justice evaluation found 41 to 73 percent drops in shootings and killings in CeaseFire zones in Chicago.

NewPublicHealth spoke with CeaseFire founder, Gary Slutkin, about the CeaseFire model earlier this year. “If you release yourself from preconceived ideas about good and bad people and just look at what is actually happening, empirically you see that [violence] spreads like any other infectious disease,” said Slutkin. In another interview, Tio Hardiman, director for CeaseFire Illinois, commented on the CeaseFire approach, “You have to be able to detect conflicts before they arrive and before they escalate.”

more at link:
http://www.rwjf.org/en/blogs/new-public-health/2012/01/study-ceasefire-model-can-stop-epidemic-of-gun-violence-replicated-in-baltimore.html