39 people were shot in New York City over the Labor Day Holiday weekend in just 60 hours, including one teenage, who died. NYC Mayor Bloomberg called the attacks “just unconscionable,” and pointed to illegal guns that have plagued the nation, especially inner-cities.
“We just cannot continue to have these guns in the hands of kids who don’t understand the value of human life,” Bloomberg said.
The New York Post today reports, “Twenty five people had been shot as of 6 a.m. Sunday — including three kids at a house party-turned-shooting gallery in The Bronx early Sunday. By early Monday morning, seven more people were shot in four separate incidents in Brooklyn — one of them fatally. By noon, another seven people had been shot — bringing the shocking toll to 39 people injured by gunfire since Saturday morning.”
And The New York Times reports that “Eight people, including three children, were shot at a crowded backyard party in the Bronx early Sunday, and the police said they were looking for a 17-year-old in connection with the shooting. Oneil Dasilva, 17, is being sought by the police. Seven of the victims, among them an 11-year-old boy and two girls, ages 13 and 14, were in stable condition at hospitals in the Bronx and Westchester County on Sunday evening, the authorities said. An eighth victim, a 24-year-old man who was shot twice in the chest, was in critical condition, the police said.”
All this gun violence comes as the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence issued a report that finds manufacturers lost 16,485 guns since 2009.
CNN reports:
Thousands of firearms have gone missing from manufacturers’ inventories since 2009 “without a record of being legally sold,” according to a report released Thursday by a gun control advocacy group.
The report by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence put the number of missing weapons at 16,485.
The Brady Center report suggests that some guns may never have had serial numbers stamped into them, making them virtually impossible to trace. The group says that the missing guns are often used by criminals precisely because they are so hard to trace.