he'll learn about tough waiting around at Phinizy..

According to the article, Davis and Gibbons exchanged shots; why is Scott being charged with murder and robbery. Seems as he was just there trying to help rob Gibbons. I'm just curious. Its a tradegy because we are losing two, possibly three young kids for something senseless.

Once again, we read of the tragic loss of a young African American male, and once again at the hands of another young African American male. But will you see Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson be down here protesting this carnage? Of course not, because to do so is not politically expedient. Until we get a handle on black on black crime, we will continue our downward slide as a society. But nobody dares talk about it, for fear of angering the left. As horribly tragic as the killings in Connecticut were, we lose many more African American males every day then children that were killed in Connecticut that day. And they get no press conference, not outrage from the president, nothing. They just continue to die.

I am confused. For some reason, I'm not understanding this article. Am I missing something? Where does Scott come into play in this whole thing and who did he murder?

do not compare what happened to the innocent children and teachers in connecticut to a bunch of low life trash that are not smart enough to know that gangs and crime are going to end there life one way or another. The difference is the kids and teachers in connecticut didn't have a choicebut these idiots did. And please if black folks want to be treated equal, you might want to try to quit playing the race card on everything. People are people regardless of race. Everybody has the same choices in life when young....RIGHT OR WRONG!!!!!! It just seems like its easier just to say that something bad happened because the were black. Give me a break!!!!!

Respectfully, you misinterpreted my letter. My point was exactly the same as yours. Race does not matter. Blacks are killing blacks every day and it is getting little or no press. I am certainly not "comparing" the murder of innocent children to what happened to the victim in this case. I am speaking of black on black crime in general, which is rampant in our society, and every bit as tragic as any other murder of innocent human beings. And if it matters (it shouldn't) I am white. So I am hardly "playing the race card."

That taking one more potential welfare recipient off the streets (even by murder) is a good thing, and you say I should re-write my letter? Wow. I will admit that upon reflection I could, and should, have made it clearer that I was not comparing Newtown to this particular incident. I was not. I was comparing black on black crime, in which innocent people are killed every day, and which the liberal media ignores because it does not fit their agenda. My point is that innocent African Americans are murdered every day on the streets of Augusta, Detroit, Baltimore and all over the country, and nobody says anything. That does not, and should not, minimize the horror that took place in Connecticut.

Bill, I caught your angle; it is just some people process the same words differently and arrive at contrary inferences.

I also agree that the culture of violence in the black community is largely ignored. Some just don't care if gang bangers kill each other (I and oneofthesane are two); and others just can't summon the courage to have an open and honest discussion of root cause, because it will ruffle feathers.

In my opinion, it is an issue that has to be addressed and solved from within, because if someone with less melanin offers opinions that sting, a whole deck of race cards get played.

Both sides were armed with pistols.

Fair? 2 against 1? All teens? Carrying weapons?

Something is hugely wrong with this scenario and with our society.

Senseless is right but used in the wrong connotation. It seems that far too many young people of today don't have the sense we had when we were young.

I have always said something about it. I've been met with varying degrees of anger and misunderstanding in the black community - all Augustans, because where I'm from there is a very different mentality.