"Kathleen Cairns, a WBFF Baltimore journalist, tweeted a picture of a woman who was surrendering a 9mm. She hoped to use the money from the program to buy an even bigger gun."**********
RELATED: It's all [culturally] relative, I guess...
Baltimore is at 11 days and counting without a homicide.
“I am losing my mind thrilled,” said Baltimore Ceasefire organizer Erricka Bridgeford. For days, she said she’s been staying up until midnight, to see if the city has made it through another day without a killing.**********
“It’s really exciting,” she said. “Baltimore deserves this boost of love.”
LAST WORD: Murder... by the numbers
The murder rate in Baltimore is 27.3 per 100,000.
The murder rate in New Orleans is 24.5 per 100,000.
The murder rate in Detroit is 20.2 per 100,000.
The murder rate in Salt Lake City is 1.0 per 100,000.