I post quite often about the shootings/killings that take place in the Birmingham, Alabama also known as "The Magic City". It is mind boggling me to that people number of people who regularly shoot each other for reasons that are incomprehensible to me.
Birmingham, Alabama has just experienced their 145th killing this year. The 145th was 1 of 4 persons in Birmingham shot in a single night. The city is on the verge of setting an infamous all time record.
The story that spurred this post was in the local news outlet this morning. I found this article interesting due to the mention of the year that holds the record for homicides in Birmingham, AL is 1933! That seems like an awful a lot of homicides to me and especially for that time period in the United States. One thing in the article I noticed was the population at that time was 269,000 compared to a head count of 197,000 today. It would be interesting to see how many of those were firearm related vs. the numbers from today. Below is the link to the story.
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