PHILADELPHIA NEWS

More gun violence is happening in Philadelphia. The latest victim is a man in his fifties. He was shot at least once in his chest on the 2700 block of Germantown Avenue this morning. Police found him and he's in critical condition. Another sad day where violence continues and seems as though it may never end. time after time we keep putting ourselves in the same situations with the same out comes. If only we could live our full life...if only we could get along. We are all the same and we where all rasied in the same envirment. When will we say enough is enough and finally put an end to it all. It seems as though it's all about anger, arguments, fight, disagreements that don't have to end in blood shed. We the people have to learn how to compromise, be the bigger person. Be the person that steps up in a time of need. We all have a role to play in society. The harder we make it for each other the harder it will be for us all. Some times when i look around i think to myself is it to late to change after all the killing and homicides. We need to find a solution. Less than three months into 2023, the city of Philadelphia has surpassed the 100-homicide mark. District Attorney Larry Krasner marked the milestone by urging parents to keep guns out of the home.

His comments come as prosecutors are evaluating a case over the weekend where a 10-y ear-old accidentally shot a 12-year-old in the city’s Strawberry Mansion section.

Krasner said they were considering charges in the case, but had to finish the investigation before making any final decisions.

He said guns are dangerous in the home, even when secured properly. When unsecured, they can be left open for children to play with and sometimes harm others.

“The truth is, you are in five times as much danger if you put a gun in your home as if you don’t,” Kranser said Monday.

“It makes just as much sense if you keep hand grenades in the house,” he added, comparing unsecured loaded guns to leaving grenades around children.

“If everyone kept hand grenades around the house, you would hear a lot of booms because that’s what happens. I would encourage parents not to get guns, but if they are going to keep them for some sort of legitimate purpose, they need to be kept secure, with gun locks and unloaded.”

The crisis is all the more harrowing for having been so concentrated in certain neighborhoods in North and West Philadelphia, places that were left behind decades ago by redlining and other forms of discrimination and are now among the poorest parts of what is often called the country’s poorest big city. Violence has erupted at times in other areas of Philadelphia, including a mass shooting in June on a street packed with bar and restaurant traffic. But much of the gunfire has rung out on blocks of blighted rowhouses, vacant lots and iron-caged front porches.

The city government has rolled out an array of efforts to address the crisis, including grants for community groups, violence intervention programs and earlier curfews. But on one crucial matter, there seem to be no ready answers: what to do about all the guns. “There are a lot of citizens in the streets of the city of Philadelphia that talk about, ‘When are we going to look at stop-and-frisk in a constitutional and active way?’” Darrell L. Clarke, the council president, said at a news conference. “Those are conversations that people have to have.”