There were 14 homicides in Austin in 2012. It is IMPOSSIBLE to tell for certain if ANY or ALL of them were gang related. If you read the conditions surrounding the homicides, none of them would probably be considered gang or drug releated. More than half were domestic disputes. The other most common scenario was 2 people who were acquaintances, getting into an argument, usually after drinking, and one pulls a gun and shoots the other.
Unfortunately. you are so caught up in your own misguided thought patterns that it is meaningless to continue the discussion with you. So feel free to continue your calling others who disagree with you in any way "libtards" and assume that anyone who preaches any level of gun control is out to take away all your guns.
Originally Posted by SpeedRacerXXX
You still haven't established where the homicides wouldn't have taken place if no guns had been available, Speedy.
Furthermore, there are a lot of bodies lying around Austin: killed in the dark of night and left in parked cars and on the streets. Guess those are all dead johns who picked the wrong street-walkers, right, Speedy? Of course the toxicology reports from the autopsies aren't immediately available for the newspapers.
BTW, how is it you don't recall the Yassines and these other homicides, Speedy?
Investigators link nightclub owner, associates to drug deals, militant Islamic group, homicide case
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Gillette said Melendrez "has history" with the Texas Syndicate prison gang. During the hearing, Melendrez stood up and told the judge he was not a member of the gang, which has been linked to murders and drug trafficking.
http://www.statesman.com/news/news/l...es-to-1/nRmXg/
In the wake of all this, a cold missing persons/possible homicide case has been re-opened due to the possibility of a link to Yassine Enterprises. Eleven years ago, a Yassine business partner, Paresh Patel, was declared missing. Patel, who co-owned six clubs with the Yassine brothers, disappeared in September 2000, shortly after an disagreement with the Yassines. A 2004 allegation that Patel had been murdered by the Texas Syndicate and buried under a Buda H-E-B led nowhere, and the case went cold. With new revelations of the wide criminal enterprise the Yassines allegedly have been running, the case is now active again.
http://austinist.com/2012/04/02/yassine_enterprises_drugs_murd er_te.php
If drugs, guns and nightclubs weren't eye catching enough, at this morning's detention hearing in the money laundering case against the Yassine family the Federal government threw everything from the Texas Syndicate to Hezbollah into the mix. . . .
During the three hour hearing, federal lawyers and witnesses from the FBI and the IRS started to lay out the bones of their case. It begins in 2006, when the FBI contacted what they called a "confidential human source" (or CHS) to help them investigate the Yassines. The alleged criminal activity began in Dec. 2007, the CHS brought some m*******a, but the meat of the case starts in Feb. 2008. The Feds allege that Mohammed "Steve Austin" Ali Yassine introduced the CHS to Nizar "Nino" Hakiki, who provided a kilo of c*****e to the CHS. The state argues that he also sold two guns a nine millimeter and a 22 caliber pistol to the CHS, who told Hakiki that he needed them to protect himself during drug deals Colorado. At the time Hakiki was employed in real estate, but now he works as a risk management specialist at the Texas Facilities Commission.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/blogs/news/2012-03-27/from-sixth-street-to-beirut/
Apr 8, 2012 Austin, Texas is abuzz today about the murder of Austin Policeman Jaime Padron, father of two daughters, by Walmart shoplifter and drug user Brandon Montgomery Daniel who has been charged
http://interactives.kxan.com/photomo...-april-6-2012/
November 12, 2012
The victim had been shot and was pronounced dead at the scene. He has been identified as Mohamad Omar, 22, of Austin.
Authorities are looking for witnesses. So far no arrests have been made.
Neighbors say they suspected drug activity at the home.
http://www.kvue.com/news/APD-investigating-death-a-178868431.html
"In 2005 alone, Austin police reported a total of 26 drug-related homicides and 312 forcible crimes."
http://transformationstreatment.com/texas-substance-abuse-treatment/austin-tx-substance-abuse-treatment/
BTW, how many of your so called "arguments" are over drugs, Speedy?
Man charged in North Austin shooting
By Claudia Grisales | Monday, September 19, 2011
An Austin man who police say shot another man in the chest Sunday night after a dispute over a c***k deal has been identified as Brian Lee Berg, 39. . . .
The officer located a weapon on Berg and additional ammunition, the affidavit said.
A witness said a dispute between Berg and the victim over a c***k deal preceded the shooting, the affidavit said.
http://mo.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2011/09/19/man_charged_in_north_austin_sh .html
http://www.austintexas.gov/news/murder-21-1
Short arms...
Originally Posted by Yssup Rider
You dumbass plastic-playmate-poking-putz! That's your miniscule dick: not your arms, Assup the jackass!!!
[COLOR="rgb(160, 82, 45)"]Do you believe the drug and gun culture in the US has changed since the 80s? or that there is better data of hang your hat on?
And why even try to edit it like you did. Are you so certain people around here are going to take you at your word?
25-50% of all gun related homicides are committed by juvenile drug dealers and gang members? REALLY? Based on Janet Reno's study of juvenile,crime in the 80s?
And since there has been "no recent comprehensive study since then" that you can find, we're supposed to believe that by reading "a local" newspaper, we can determine that "almost every murder is related to the illicit drug trade?"
I suppose that might be the case if your local paper is from Nuevo Laredo, but even then, it's a stretch.
A 30 year old set of statistics just doesn't wash if you're playing a numbers game.
But all that aside, your fanatical devotion to these studies which you obviously found on google indicates that you disagree with Whirlyturd's original point.
More guns DO NOT equal lower crime.
So I guess after all of that, you do agree with us! [/COLOR]
Originally Posted by Yssup Rider
You still don't have a clue, do you, Assup the jackass? Call 1-800-EAT-SHIT, Assup the jackass.