Update 11/29/15
At 4:05 a.m. Saturday, 11/28/15, a 29-year-old-man was killed in a shooting in Southwest Baltimore, just north of Carroll Park, making this the deadliest year per capita that Harm City has seen. Now that the boys have rested up over the Thanksgiving holiday I am expecting some steady work again.
Any readers who would like to readjust their prediction feel free to enter a new one on the comment function below.
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While I disagree with the FBI standard of killings per 100,000 to determine the lethality of a municipality, what the hell, I’m an American, and like to see my team in the lead, and a W is a W!
This year the notable trend has been toward black-on-black stabbings, which as far back as the 1980s was one of the least common uses of a knife. It used to be primarily small Latinos and alienated white loners who used the blade to even the odds against the larger and more numerous blacks and city hicks. Now, with the increasingly effeminate nature of young black men, who are generally incapable of dealing with lone adult men of any age or class, the resulting trends in violence committed by black urban youth have been two: mob attacks, and stabbings.
Note: If you look at films of the Baltimore black-on-white civilian riot by the Orioles Stadium at Camden yards you will repeatedly see sissy, non-athletic black youth being manhandled by middle-aged white men, until the middle-aged white wives got in there and compromised their husbands and the hoodrats called in reinforcements. This glaring lack of physicality, together with the emotional emasculation of the black male at the hands of his mother, has produced a class of youth who are hyper-aggressive yet incapable of brawling well, so resort to mob tactics and knives, which can be had at the counter of any Pakistani gas station, or convenience store.
With seven more weeks of violence to go, I am predicting a 2015 total Harm City body count of 325.
What is your prediction?
Any Reader who guesses the correct number of Harm City homicides on a comment posted before Christmas, 2015, will be awarded a copy of Menthol Rampage, a tale of interracial urban violence and mayhem set in Anyhood U.S.A.
The boys are already batting 303 on 11/18 and the BPD chopper is circling again. If you have bid under 310, feel free to adjust your prediction.
304
345
I'm going to go a bit higher with 336, expecting some hell for the holidays.
I predict the dindu dance of death slows to a box step with the cool weather... 310.
330
I'll take 333. Half the number of the beast. Keep up the good work hood rats!
Given the pending colder weather I predict the final death count to be 317.
328
Can we do over and under bets? If so I'll take the under and if not I'm going for 311.
I'll go with 308. Which coincidentally is my favorite rifle caliber and has never let me down.
K-
315, go hoodrats.
300,000. We can hope; right?
319, go big or go home.
338
345
317
Wow these guys are worse then I thought. Changing to 335!
326
Can we have an update on your suburban Baltimore friend with the crack house in his neighborhood?
I've wondered since you posted the story if a silenced air gun aimed at crack customers' windshields, headlights, and legs and fired from cover would solve the problem. No customers = no business. What are the crack dealers going to do, call the cops? This would obviously bring more heat from the neighbors but then again they beat him up for talking to them.
That was Robert.
He moved three months ago, then quit the crappy job he had with me and moved onto a bigger outfit, packing orders in a vast warehouse.
I do love the air gun idea.