What these animals need are parental supervison (if they have parents), revamped Court System that doesn't return these animals to the street to prey on citizens. It's time for the people of Baltimore to start putting these animals (regardless of age) in jail or the ground. The Legal is either unable or unwilling to treat these animals like the criminals they have become.

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We have had shootings by Pellet Guns in Northeast District recently. Firing out of windows of their Mom's house...Sniper practice? It is a serious problem requiring a serious response, not downplaying for political reasons. Property damage and injuries cannot be accepted and attributed to "bored youth". Is it illegal to own a pellet gun in the city? Please inform us, Baltimore Sun.

Such a Stylish Progressive, that Odette.

So accepting of Disaffected Youth and their carefree frolickings.

I'm sure that with the proper love and attention, the shooters will come to recognize that Odette is their noble representative in the ongoing fight against racism, corporate greed, the oppression of the impoverished, bigotry, and intolerance.

Seriously? Kids shooting people with BB guns is news now?

You all are sick, and candidate Ramos has a point. To posit that all the antisocial behavior of all the offenders and troubled youth in Baltimore has nothing to do with a lack of education and opportunity, is to argue that some people are more criminal by nature. They have a name for such a theory; it's called eugenics. I am not saying that a few more rec centers and summer jobs programs will cure the problem, but there is no way that you can incarcerate or execute your way out of this situation. If you could, the United States would be the safest and most crime free nation on earth. As we know, that is not the case. I'm so tired of the thinly veiled racism in the Sun's comments sections. If you don't have anything productive or insightful to write, keep your thoughts to yourself.

It's too bad it takes something stupid like a kid with a pellet gun to get The Sun to mention anything about the 12th District City Council race.

Carl Stokes has avoided media questions about a lead paint lawsuit, deliberately attempted to mislead voters by suggesting they "Re-Elect" him on campaign literature and been found by a court to be in default earlier this month, yet the media is silent. How come no one called him out for lying about his vote on the 25th Street Station development at the Hampden Community Council's candidates forum on Monday night?

It is truly sad that it takes a kid with a pellet gun for The Sun to cover the 12th District City Council race.

Carl Stokes has avoided media questions about a lead paint lawsuit, deliberately attempted to mislead voters by encouraging them to "Re-Elect" him, been found in default by a court of law and most recently lied about his vote on the 25th Street Station development at the Hampden Community Council candidates forum.

She's lucky that LeLe and RaRa weren't available to knife her to death for an i-pod. They 'hurt a white boy real bad.'

I can't believe anyone is taking Ramos seriously. She has no personal investment in the 12th District. None. She lives with a friend and she's not even renting, since she owns a home outside the District. Don't we have enough city council members who don't have connections to or homes in the districts they represent? She moved when she found out there was a city council seat up for grabs. She's not an "activist" either: Ramos has gotten paid to do community work -- an activist is someone who is active because they are passionate about a cause. She's passionate about getting a taxpayer-funded job, because she apparently doesn't have a source of income. Thus, the living at a friend's house. It's a nice big circle of mediocrity. Come to think of it, she'd fit in nicely with so many of our other council members.

@12thD....Get your facts straight before you engage your keyboard....Ramos has been actively involved in 12th District neighborhoods as a volunteer for most of the past 15 years. As a resident of Charles Village she and other volunteers founded the Village Learning Place when the City closed the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Ramos served as President of the Abell Improvement Association and as chair of Community Mediation on Greenmount Ave, on the board of Live Baltimore and as chair of the Baltimore Hispanic Chamber of Commerce among many, many volunteer positions of service. She moved to Charles Village last year to live with her boyfriend. To say she has no connection to the 12th District is a lie. She has more broad based support than any other candidate.

All of that "volunteering" was so long ago I don't know anyone who remembers her in those communities, and I live in one of them.  She sat on a board at the Learning Place -- 11 years ago!  Her contributions were so small that she is not even mentioned on their website. Let's face it, my three year old has done more recently for District 12.

Further, when she had the chance to invest personally in a community, she went to far NE Baltimore to do it, not District 12.  Watch out, Odette, you are tripping over your carpetbag!

If Odette Ramos didn't have a reputation for getting things done she wouldn't have earned the endorsements of Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke, Councilman Bill Henry, Delegates Maggie McIntosh and Mary Washington, The MD League of Conservation Voters, Clean Water Action and Casa In Action.

Of course she has the support of Bill Henry. My realtor friend told me she bought his house in the 14th District for $170,000. Now the house is sitting vacant and on the market for $60,000. How do you explain that? Of course the "apples" McIntosh and Washington support her because she worked on both of their campaigns. Endorsements just mean more of the same in Baltimore. I'm looking for real change.

12thD, you seem to be an expert on tearing down a single candidate on all fronts. Maybe I'll look at Ms. Ramos more seriously. Personally, I'll vote for anyone who isn't named Carl Stokes--the man who cannot tell the truth or keep his word if his life depends on it. And that's not even applying a "politician standard" of dancing around facts or promises. Stokes will look you in the eye and lie as sure as he breathes.