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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]C'mon, folks--

I, too, am puzzled by the moderator's muzzling of comments about the [b]serious pattern of shootings [/b]and other gun violence in connection with the annual zoo event yesterday.  Whether done out of an abundance of caution or political correctness, I don't know.  However, to cast blame on him for future violence because of heavy-handed censorship is both wrong and frankly inflates the importance of this forum.  [/quote]And therein lies the issue.  Some are making it sound like there are shootings every year, and that doesn't appear to be the case as noted in several posts though any shooting is bad.  I think the moderator is trying to eliminate mis-communication which feeds into some posters justification who want to make this into a race=violence issue.

No one is saying the shootings didn't happen but to infer that it happens every year is, indeed, incorrect.  Period.[/quote]

The police certainly act as if they expect shootings or some other violence each time this event is held especially after the 2000 shooting.  They're prepared with assault weaponry and also their presence is quite large even at the start.  Yet, this is called a family event.

On the other hand, I guess, there was probably a heavy police presence with exposed assault weaponry at the White House egg roll, too.     [/quote]
And the marine corps marathon, and the army ten miler... Just about ANY big event in DC has lots of cops present.[/quote]

It's one thing to protect against clear terrorist targets like the White House or perhaps the Marine Marathon after last year's Boston bombing.  It's quite another to persist in holding an event, enveloped in massive police presence, because some of the participants themselves engage in unruly mob behavior that has led to multiple victim shootings and a stabbing.

And here's another question:  Has the identify of yesterday's shooter(s) been ascertained yet?  Why not?  The shootings took place in broad daylight, on a busy street, in the midst of apparently a large crowd (see video on yesterday's news).  And the shooter(s) may have fled with the crowd.  Yet no one saw the shooter(s) or pointed him/them out to police?  Why not?  You would think at a family event, the crowd would be outraged and the shooter(s) would have been apprehended within 24 hours.[/quote]

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