Watertown vigil for Hiroshima and Nagasaki extended to include El Paso and Dayton
By adamg on Mon, 08/05/2019 - 10:23am

Memorial lanterns on the Charles River in Watertown.
Greg Cook reports that people who gathered in Watertown Square last night for a vigil to remember those who died in atomic blasts also took time to recall the victims of mass murders this weekend.
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That was cool
But the math doesn't quite work.
What about Baltimore & Chicago
6 people die weekly in Baltimore -- Baltimore just had its 200th murder of the year -- you do the math
from a Washington Post story:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/baltimore-reaches-200...
Meanwhile in Chicago more than 50 people were shot last weekend, although either through bad marksmanship, luck, and medical skill only 7 were fatalities
the excerpts below are from a NYT story:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/us/chicago-violence-guns.html[/url]
Nearly a minute of sustained gunfire from one incident in Chicago
https://twitter.com/i/status/1158354367944245248