Today's Baltimore Sun reports on the turnout of dozens of Eastport residents to complain about gun violence at Monday's City Council meeting. I have been covering this in detail before the meeting and after the meeting, which I attended. All of these people are CP's neighbors and I have heard gunshots for many years. I had a long conversation with the young mother who spoke at the meeting. Many of the comments were hurled clearly at the Mayor, who CP reminds, once represented Eastport and still lives here. The operative "theme" of the massive turnout was that "We live in fear, but some live in denial". Today's Baltimore Sun is instructive, if only for the quotes from the Mayor which bear repeating here:
After the meeting, Mayor Ellen O. Moyer criticized the group's strategy, saying that instead of acting as "problem solvers," they were acting as "rhetorical bomb throwers."
"What I don't get from them is an indication that they want to partner in any way," she said. "To assert that we're ignoring the issue is plain folly."
This is not the last CP will be posting about this ever worsening story. See the Sun at: www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-ar.council16jan16,0,4276230.story
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