7-month-old girl shot and killed in Brooklyn, police sources say

The homicide rate of NYC today and the entire country is absolutely minuscule compared to years ago. This is pure fear mongering based on whatever Fox News is selling you.

> You wouldn’t believe how often this shit happens in the NYC. You wouldn't believe how many people live in NYC and have never been anywhere near a gunshot.

You sound like a red state politician when asked about a democrats territory lol

Spoken by someone who’s never stepped foot in nyc

Some of us have multiple kids so we can’t go. Drugs and alcohol are super appealing. And I won’t lie it’s tempting to just spend the rest of my time blurry. But again 3 other children. So I do therapy and meditation. And fight every day to not give up. It’s a literal living nightmare. And the worst part is even with all of the trying your babies still have the trauma of losing their first friend.

Would probably do it after seeking revenge on who took my child from me.

Not a parent but I love my toddler niece and newborn nephew all the same and I too would 100% do the exact same thing. Life’s not worth living if anything like this happened to them.

My second daughter died shortly after birth. When my older daughter was murdered 13 years ago, I wondered what I had to live for. My husband, my friends, my grief support group kept me going. Just barely. Thirteen years later, it still hurts so much. It's so f****** hard. I will survive, though.

I'd rather handover that social nuisance to you and let you do whatever you want to do to him.

So not first degree but at least manslaughter

Yeah, I expect them to use bikes, E-scooters can be tracked!

Congratulations on your new baby! Wishing you joy, cuddles, and sleep!

I'm not saying these problems should be ignored. I'm saying there are people who should be focusing on it and people who should not. New parents who aren't in a position to do anything about violence and gun culture can take a step back for those first few years. Let those who are feeling more stable - less hormonal, less sleep deprived, less overwhelmed by newly-developed protective drives - take on the burden for a bit.

Do you know what martyrdom is? Do you think dudes fellow banger friends would see him get the death sentence for killing a toddler and try to emanate that? They do this shit because they think they’re cool and they think they’ll make easy money. Yes, in a sense they do martyr each other for certain things. This wouldn’t be one of those

Justice carries scales for a reason. If the person that killed that kid gets to live, that's not justice.

> have school programs, youth diversion programs, drug and mental health diversion programs, community enforcement, pre-K expansion, school programs. NYC has all of this, but we're fucked because you still have some guy in Georgia purchasing 10 of the same weapon in one go with no questions asked, then the guns are mysteriously stolen and end up being recovered at the scene of a crime in NYC or some other major city with tighter restrictions.

These solutions are great for people in 20-30 years, but would have done nothing for this dead child today.

There’s a few factors to this equation. First you have to consider gang politics. It’s different in NY and Chicago than the gangs in LA that are more organized. NY gangs are mostly small sets of teenagers from the same area who rob and kill other teenagers from other areas. Already, the fact that most of these idiots doing the shooting are under 21 years old, means that none of them could legally purchase a handgun even if they didn’t have a felony already. (which many of them probably do) The point being: how the hell is the government supposed to deal with teenagers getting access to guns? There’s clearly adults in the lives of these teens that are either purchasing guns for them or selling guns to them. What new laws could be put into place to prevent this? It’s already illegal. Getting a handgun is already difficult in New York City, but you can easily just drive to a different state, buy one, and bring it back. It’s a shit show. I don’t see a way out of it, to be real.

Hard disagree, there are many times that gun laws make it far to easy for people to obtain guns. NYC has very strict gun laws, therefore most criminal gun owners in NYC purchase guns out of state. If ALL states had strict gun laws, it would be much harder for everyone to get guns. An example of bad gun laws enabling crime is violent domestic abusers who aren't banned from owning guns shooting their partner. Another example is children shooting people with their parents guns.

The thing is, if the rest of the country had better laws, criminals wouldn't be able to so easily obtain firearms.

Criminal Possession of a Stolen Firearm (NY Penal Law § 165.52) This is a Class D felony, carrying up to 7 years in prison. So like 3 more years is gonna make the difference here?

The people bringing them to the street are the [original purchasers](https://apnews.com/article/guns-straw-purchases-trafficking-faf5df830c0a948b9f6a34767678f88f) that then sell them on the black market and report them stolen.

People really struggle with finding a middle ground between giving up and fighting a losing battle on principle.

>somebody had the same idea... Well, yeah, because that's how tribalism and propaganda work.

It’s interesting that you are criticizing America’s empathy and lack of appropriate response by making callus jokes and spreading misinfo in the wake of a tragedy. Just crocodile tears from the peanut gallery.