[Vision2020] 1 In 2 Men In Downtown Orlando Have Guns On Weekends

[Debbie Gray]

And see what banning guns in Washington, D.C. has
done...
Debbie Gray

--- Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

> If an armed society is a polite society, what could
> possibly go wrong when
> half of Orlando, Florida is armed?
> 
> >From Local6.com in Orlando, Florida at:
> 
> http://www.local6.com/news/13956220/detail.html
> 
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> 1 In 2 Men In Downtown Orlando Have Guns On
> Weekends, Police Vet Says
> 
> Many Weapons Stolen From Gun Stores
> 
> ORLANDO, Fla. -- Guns are so prevalent in Orlando
> that 50 percent of the
> young men in the downtown area on weekends are
> carrying them or have access
> to them in a vehicle, according to a 20-year police
> veteran.
> 
> "There are always guns involved, in just about every
> call," Orlando police
> veteran Derwin Bradley said. "Out of every two guys
> walking down the street,
> one of them will have a gun."
> 
> Bradley said he has to assume most of the young men
> are armed.
> 
> You have to assume (most are carrying guns) if you
> want to stay alive out
> here in this job," Bradley said. "Last weekend we
> took a guy down here on
> the corner and he had a gun under his shirt and he
> had been in a club."
> 
> Police opened up a large locker filled with AK-47s,
> shotguns and other guns
> seized in Orlando and surrounding cities in July.
> 
> Investigators said most of the guns are coming from
> gun store smash-and-grab
> crimes in Orange County.
> 
> "A great deal of it can be attributed to some gun
> store burglaries we
> suffered in Orange County within the past year,"
> Orange County sheriff's
> Sgt. Jimmy Hernandez said. "Unfortunately, some
> stores were leaving guns out
> in the open, so it was an easy target. Now, they are
> doing a better job of
> securing them."
> 
> Several times this year thieves have backed a truck
> through walls of gun
> shops and looted businesses.
> 
> A member of the sheriff's organized crime squad said
> most of the stolen guns
> end up on the streets.
> 
> "When you hear about a gun store being burglarized
> and 100 guns stolen,
> certainly that increases your fear level," Hernandez
> said.
> 
> Authorities said serial numbers found on seized guns
> show that many of the
> stolen weapons stay in Central Florida, WKMG-TV
> reported.
> 
> A new Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
> Firearms task force is hoping
> to slow the surge in violent crime.
> 
> "I can assure you that we've initiated the violent
> crime impact team here,
> which consists of Orange County (sheriffs) and the
> Orlando Police
> Department," AFT representative Russ May said. Let's
> give it a chance. As
> there is a surge in violent crime, sometimes it
> takes law enforcement time
> to catch up to that surge."
> 
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> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "People who ridicule others while hiding behind
> anonymous monikers in
> chat-room forums are neither brave nor clever."
> 
> - Latah County Sheriff Wayne Rausch (August 21,
> 2007) 
> 
> 
> 
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