St. Louis Public Safety Director Under Fire For Speaking Truth
By Tom Knighton
When the topic of guns comes up, you can all but guarantee that someone is going to spout off about the deaths of innocent children. They’ll then produce some statistics that show the number of child deaths that resulted from being shot.
There are problems with this data, generally, including the fact that they’ll include 18- and 19-year-old victims in there.
However, while talking about those deaths, the St. Louis Public Safety Director made a comment that got him into some hot water recently.
Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards, under fire for comments on a local radio show about child shooting deaths in the city, reiterated his point at an aldermanic committee meeting Thursday.
Edwards said while those under 10 years old were innocent victims, some older children had been linked to illegal activity.
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Edwards said a 15-year-old was found dead one morning “with an automatic weapon on his person with an extended ammunition magazine, $5,000 in cash and a large quantity of drugs.”
He said another shooting victim, 16, was on “the police carjacking offender list” and had been allegedly shot in a crossfire “engaged in by two other 16-year-olds.”
“And finally,” Edwards said, “another 15-year-old was alleged to have …Read the Rest
Source:: Bearing Arms
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