Detroit leaders call for a violence-free, bullet-free start to 2014

[StephenMasten]

Detroit leaders call for a violence-free, bullet-free start to 2014
http://www.freep.com/article/20131230/NEWS05/312300112/Detroit-New-Years-gunfire
8:02 PM, December 30, 2013

The "Ring the New Year in with a Bell, Not a Bang" started after the death of Sandra Latham, who was killed by stray gunfire. She had chosen to stay home with family to avoid the celebratory gunfire, and ended up becoming the city's first homicide victim of 1996.

"This has gone on too long," McKinnon said during the kickoff event. "When I joined the police department back in 1965, people used to celebrate this idea of shooting guns at night. About 10 to 12, they would tell the police officers to leave the street because it was dangerous.

"If it was dangerous for the police to be on the street, what was it for ... the rest of the city?"

Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano, who was sheriff when the initiative began, said it's common sense to continue trying to get people to stop shooting off their guns to ring in the new year.

"You can't argue with gravity," he said. The bullet "has to come down somewhere."

This year, Hood announced partnerships with a local indoor gun range offering to let people test their guns on-site for free.

"I've seen" bullets "go where I had no idea they could," said Al Allen, owner of the Double Action Indoor Shooting Center and Gun Shop, an indoor range and gun shop in Madison Heights. "Electric conduit, lights, ceiling tiles and panel. You name it, we've seen it."

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[PaulW]

I have never been to Detroit, but if i ever go there it looks and sounds like i might need to pack a bullet proof vest. And just incase does anyone know if you can hire a armoured car ? America land of the free ? Well it looks like its a land of the free for all. Give a monkey a gun. Take away the law and what have you got ? Detroit.

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

Many of us think that America is crazy. Guns is one thing most find crazy, then there is the fact that weed is a free for all in Colorado etc and Meth is off the hook there right now. Then we don't like how America goes around telling everybody how to act, speak and think with political correctness and multiculturalist issues as well as Jew driven Femi-nazism.

Then to boot , we have a bunch of US service men stationed up here in Australia's Northern Territory that like to rape people.

I don't think all Americans are like this but a lot of people get worried sometimes.