NRA Invades Charlotte, Crime Drops 45%
Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 7:48 pm
Via Snowflakes via NRA-ILA via Charlotte Observer
Oh, and anyone have Mayor Daley's email address? Howzabout Fenty?
I read somewhere that some idiot newspaper editor in Charlotte wrote an editorial asking the NRA to "not shoot us." I suggest he now invite the Brady Bunch to Charlotte and a) see what impact on tourism they have, and b) see what the impact on crime is.Visitors who descended on Charlotte's center city area for the National Rifle Association convention, UltraSwim and other events last weekend were the equivalent themselves of North Carolina's 10th-biggest city, officials said Tuesday.
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Officials said most of the crowd was in Charlotte for the NRA convention, ...
City officials had predicted the NRA convention would bring 70,000 visitors, and the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority thinks that estimate panned out.
.... the NRA event was the largest convention in Charlotte history.
... Captain Jeff Estes, commander of CMPD's Central Division, said crime for the week was 45 percent lower than the same week a year ago. Overall this year, crime in the Central Division, which includes center city, is down 19 percent from the first 41/2 months of 2009, police say.
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Oh, and anyone have Mayor Daley's email address? Howzabout Fenty?
The gun grabbers