Shouldn't we be working on getting gangs off the street instead of passing a resolution against the war?

Question

There is MORE gang violence in America and more Americans getting killed HERE in urban areas than ALL of Iraq and Afganistan.

Answer 1

While the resolution is meaniless and therefor a waste of time, gangs are a major probelm here and we could use the funds to solve it but alas they've lost them by the truck load in Iraq! Now theres a gang how much did they steal in unmarked bills? We need to do something about domestic issues no doubt

Answer 2

I am interested in what the government has done about thefact that Afghanistan from what I've read is the leading or one of them of Heroin importers to the US. Are the poppy fields being destroyed by the administration or managed?

Since drugs and gang activity go hand in hand is there a significant reduction of heroin abuse in the US?

Yes we do have a terrible gang problem in the US. It is something that I am not very familiar with. Thankfully to myself but I can see the destruction it is causing our country.
I live in small town America and it's even becoming a problem in our schools and communities.

Answer 3

Shouldn't we be working on getting gangs off the street instead of pushing a "flag desecration amendment"?

Shouldn't we be working on real problems instead of pushing a "Defense of Marriage Amendment"?

It's all BS, and it comes from both sides. The anti-war resolutions are BS, as they're non-binding. Politicians need to "defecate", or get off the pot.

Let's start doing something that means something, to all Americans, instead of dividing us further with this flash-in-the-pan, highly controversial BS.

Answer 4

Let's just make it so none of these people are getting killed as a result of our hands. Let's get gangs off the streets and lets get the hell out of Iraq. We should be advocating for both. That way we aren't killing anyone. BTW, the increase in gang violence wouldn't be happening if We weren't in Iraq. And, there is a hell of a lot more violence occuring in Iraqi streets than there is in America.

Answer 5

Lets see, comparing a country the size of Texas against the whole U.S. doesn't seem fair. Does killing thirty people at a time, that are simply shopping for something for supper qualify as a crime, when it is them not us? In answer to your question, yes we should be working on gangs in our own country instead of being in a country where we are not wanted. That is exactly why this resolution is needed. We need to take care of our own county, not somebody else.

Answer 6

We need a Christian resolution to get the gangs off the streets of our URBAN areas. : )

Answer 7

We should do both, but were only forming the resoultion. Why? Because Bush is only focusing on Iraq. He has forgotten that he is President of the U.S., not Iraq.

Answer 8

Your theory is correct per an article in the National Post.

By Steven Edwards

UNITED NATIONS - The latest crime statistics for Baghdad show its murder rate is lower than that of any major U.S. city -- if anti-coalition attacks are discounted.

While daily reports of violence give the impression that chaos reigns, the U.S. Army's 1st Armour Division, which controls the Iraqi capital, says the number of "non-political" murder victims has declined dramatically over recent months.

The division's statistics also show reported cases of kidnapping and aggravated assault are down.

The findings suggest U.S.-led coalition forces and the new Iraqi police force are making more progress than is widely believed as they battle regular crime as well as terrorist activity.

Only three months ago, Baghdad was branded the murder capital of the world.

"Before the war, Iraq was a society with order, but no freedom," reported the BBC World Service. "Now it has freedom, but no order."

But according to the U.S. Army's latest counts, Baghdad had fewer reported murders per 100,000 population in October than even New York, which federal authorities this month declared the safest city in the United States.

Baghdad's murder rate was also significantly lower than that in Washington, D.C., which Donald Rumsfeld, the U.S. Defense Secretary, is sure to note after political opponents ridiculed him for saying as much in June.

It is not the first time the situation in Iraq is found to be better than it earlier seemed.

U.S. forces found themselves vindicated this summer after being accused of allowing massive looting of priceless artifacts from Baghdad's museum. Most turned up in secret vaults, where Iraqi officials had placed them for safe keeping.

The first person to highlight the new crime statistics in the context of U.S. murder rates was John Lott, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based conservative think-tank.

He showed that higher murder-rate figures cited by several other scholars and the media had included victims of other causes of death, such as accidents or suicide.

"A lot of the early counts were based on all bodies entering the morgues, including people killed in car accidents, and everything else that was there," he said in an interview.

The more recent figures are more precise.

Army statistics show there were 92 presumed murder victims in July in Baghdad, declining each month to only 24 in October. That translates into an annual murder rate of six per 100,000 people in the city of five million.

New York's 45 murders in October translated into an annual rate of seven per 100,000 people.

The comparable figures for major U.S. cities are 10 per 100,000 in Boston, 17 in Los Angeles, 19 in Philadelphia, 22 in Chicago and 46 in Washington, D.C.

If the new statistics turn out to be an accurate reflection of street crime, they mean "the enforcement is working," said Bernard Kerik, New York's former police chief, who helped launch the new Iraqi police force.

There remain, however, almost daily deaths of coalition soldiers as U.S.-led forces tackle remnants of Saddam Hussein's Baathist death squads and members of the al-Qaeda terrorist network who have infiltrated Iraq in recent months.

Such deaths are not included in the statistics. Neither are deaths of Iraqi civilians killed by terrorist acts or caught in crossfire.

Experts also caution the statistics for kidnapping and assault may be on the low side of actual occurrences because of presumed lower rates of reporting of these crimes.

In July, the statistics show there were 29 kidnapping cases, dropping to 11 in October.

There were 135 aggravated assault cases reported in July and 40 in October.

Answer 9

Most definitely we should, there are alot of issues in this country that need are attention

Answer 10

Go right ahead and get back to us next month with a progress report.

Go big Red Go