Meanwhile In Chicago, 120 People Shot In First 10 Days Of 2016
Even as Obama takes his anti-gun crusade to new highs with every passing week, having recently started dispensing executive orders, the president conveniently continues to ignore the state of affairs in his native Chicago - a city in which guns are banned - yet where the shooting epidemic has never been worse, and is truly emblematic of the "gun problem" America has.
Judging by the most recent developments, Obama will have nothing to say about Chicago gun violence either during tonight's state of the union address, or ever for that matter, because recent developments are downright disastrous.
According to the Chicago Tribune, following the seven people shot to death and 30 more wounded during the latest weekend, the total number of shootings in the windy city has risen to 120 in just over a week into the new year, according to police.
The fatal shootings included two teens killed by a store clerk during a robbery in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side, and one of three people shot at a party four blocks from Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home.
As the Tribune tabulates as of Monday morning, at least 19 people have been killed in gun violence and at least 101 more have been wounded. This is three times higher than compared to the same period one year ago: in the first 10 days of 2015, "only" nine people were killed and another 31 wounded.
Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi released a statement blaming most of the violence on "chronic gang conflicts."
"Every year Chicago Police recover more illegal guns than officers in any other city, and as more and more illegal guns continue to find their way into our neighborhoods."
So the problem is smuggling of illegal guns, got it. What is the proposed solution?
"So it is clear we need stronger state and federal gun laws," Guglielmi said in the statement.
Because those who illegally procure guns will follow gun purchasing laws, and the only thing preventing them from doing so is not enough laws? One can almost see why Chicago's gun problem is getting worse by the day.
The statement continues:
"So far this year, the majority of the gun violence we've seen are a result of chronic gang conflicts driven in part by social media commentary and petty disputes among rival factions. Despite an overall lack of cooperation from gang members, detectives are working aggressively and making optimistic progress in several cases."
At least 2,986 people were shot in Chicago in 2015. Many more will be shot - by illegally obtained weapons in a city with unprecedented gun control - in 2016.
For an interactive summary of the "hot spots" in Chicago, click on the map below.
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Almost there. If you are for gun control, then you don't want law abiding humans to have guns but you do want LEOs, corporations, mercenaries, gangs, ISIS, alphabet agencies and any other fascist organization to have guns and you want the profit margin to be very high so that you can put weapons manufacturers in your 401(k)
So effing right!
Good thing guns are illegal there. Could you imagine the civility that would break out if they allowed private citizens to defend themselves with firerms? The humanity.
I applaud your use of irony and satire.
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
- Robert A. Heinlein
FORWARD MY RUGER STOCK!
i don't get it. so why doesn't he just sign an executive order banning the smuggling of all illegal guns by those who want to commit violent crimes? according to his math, that would take gun deaths down to 0 in chicago overnight.
Because the USSA corporate shareholders have given a mandate to Obama to increase the profits of weapons manufacturers while simutaneously stripping the rights of law abiding citizens and putting them in harms's way. He has carried out their mission admirably and is line for a year end bonus. /s
“ … 120 People Shot In First 10 Days Of 2016 …”
Meanwhile, the diverse peeples are protesting the names of campus buildings and those darn Confederate Flags in Walmart and jamming up airports.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/a-modern-approach-to-secur...
It is an easy engineering solution.
More nonsense.
The answer is persistent VX gas.
And I'll bet most of the shooters have a rap sheet a mile long. If these guys weren't out on the streets to begin with (due to our crappy justice system), there would be far fewer shootings.
Apparently these chaps were part of the expedited justice system.
Confederate flag types lack imagination, if they think they can't use any other flag as a symbol of defiance or protest: Just fly the US flag in Distress mode (upside down).
Chi town is a example of what gun control does . Only criminals and cops have guns. Everyone else is screwed
Actually - all others are just potential organ donors. Where did Cheney get his heart?
He has a heart?
General Grievous has more heard than Dick Cheney.
"Feel the hate flow through you..."
"Only criminals and cops have guns."
If it weren't for the insignia on the hats, how would we be able to tell them apart?
As Whitey Bulger was attributed to saying in that movie "The Departed", "It doesn't matter what side you're on when that barrel is pointed at you."
"Chi town is a example of what gun control does . Only criminals and cops have guns."
Was the shop owner a criminal or a cop?
Interesting Quotes in the article by some drive bys as how the shop owner was "always killing people"...
we may never know, but i bet the owner of the store and the clerk involved will be sued by the famblee, and will go through months if not years of court dates and etc. etc. etc.
america small business, the only way to win is not to play
Both the owner and clerk are [wisely] moving back to Agrabhianistan.
Less violent there.
Fucking Dindus: 2 Feral teens fail at armed robbery. Famblees call a lawyer & rob the store that way. Owner leaves, store closes. Cue niggerhood whining bout "food deserts", and underprivileged coonmunitees"..
Look, I can put two and two together, even if the City of Chicago can't. Dindus destroy everything. It's what they do. It's what they are, everywhere in the world.
There is no policy solution for 10,000 years of nonevolution. Send them back to their natural habitat.
No, private citizens can own firearms (with a few oddball limitiations) here. The State concealed weapons law opened the door to legal ownership of handguns within City limits. Illinois law also recognizes Castle Domain laws, allowing for a person with a CCL the right to self-defense not only in the home, but in their automobile (meaning, if you were in fear of your life while in your car, the criminal and civil laws (pending circumstaces,) are in your favor.
If you possess just a FOID, Castle Domain still applies, but only to the home (CCL is required to carry outside the home.) If someone enters the home uninvited, from a legal perspective, whatever happens to them is all on them.
PS- To whichever Tyler wrote this: "where guns are banned" is a horrible blanket statement. Not everyone is going to pick that up.
Curious "where they were shot"...rather than just what part of the city?
http://heyjackass.com/2016-shot-placement/
This site is the best at keeping up with Chicago shootings and crime news.
http://heyjackass.com/ (the main page)
Only the police and government should have guns!11!!
/sarc
Heres a greenie there Lendo...next time lead your comment with /sarc...some folks around here are pretty fast on the trigger!
and the criminals
Some of the latest murders involved bad drug deals (as opposed to liquor store hold-ups). From the associated comments in the sections below the newspaper accounts there will be significant retaliatory actions by rival gang members.
Good. I frankly don't care if criminals kill each other. Let them go at it "guns ablazing" so the rest of us -- those who have guns for self-defense not offense -- can live at peace.
Fewer criminals in the hood only helps the productive part of society. If we made welfare contingent on birth control, the "urban" problem would correct itself in a generation.
Those gun free zones working out well I tell ya!
If Obama would just sign an executive order banning murder.....
as well as "workplace violence"
America makes Afghanistan seem like a sunday church picnic.
Yeah, it'd be much better to live in Europe where you can be raped at will by "immigrants".
Damn! Really? Sometimes I just wonder how I made it so far.
"America makes Afghanistan seem like a sunday church picnic."
Yup. It's horrible here. Simply terrible. Please, for your own safety, stay wherever you're at now. Oh, and call everybody in Syria, Cuba and Mexico that you know - tell them to stay home too.
I live in a pretty good part of Bethesda.
there is a good part of bethesda?
Only 120 Shot? The Fascist Criminal Militarized Mercs must be slipping.
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
Robert A. Heinlein
Great quote. Would be better to say "An [unlicensed and] armed society is a polite society." or something like that.
When we have crisscrossing and confusing laws, it breeds fear and doubt in those who are armed, that they won't be trusted when they faithfully report their actions to the state, or that they might not have followed every law to the T, and they are liable.
Of course he WON'T say anything. That's because Obama is a POS. I know that's being unkind to a POS. Oh well.
The Feds only care about about gun control as it relates to their ability to supress political dissent. T hey really have no interest in the violence in Chicago except as it acts as narrative to advance gun control in order to supress political dissent and eliminate physical resistance to their psychopathy.
Yup. Nothing scarier than organized white people who know how and when to use their guns.
I mean, just look at that group in Oregon, taking over a bird sanctuary to protest for the rights of ranchers over BLM mismanagement. The nerve!!! All those scary handguns, AR15s and ammo. Probably a few bowie knives, too. And those beards! They must be some new kind of terrorist cult.
And, please excuse my ignorance, but what was the body count so far?
let me be clear that I definitely do NOT support those guys, consider them nuts/criminals who will get the sentences they deserve (we can agree to disagree about that) but I let myself get sucked into a min flamewar on rolling stone w/a blue troll who was hellbent that they MUST be labelled terrorists! I said "fine, they're 'terrorists' - now that we've established that can we agree on a term to describe the subset of 'terrorists' who occupy empty buildings, don't take hostages and/or injure anyone versus the ones who immediately open fire on and/or detonate explosives against random civilians? I'm far more concerned about the later than former". this nut then went, well, nuts insisting that "terrorism is terrorism!" & called me a bunch of sjw blather. again, seizing empty federal building = crime = prison but lumping them together w/san bernadino, charleston (see? yes, white people can call other white people terrorists!), etc serves no useful porpose (& no, I don't consider advancing a political agenda "useful" - one [not me] might go so far as to call that "terroristic")
Yeah I don't have a dog in that fight either, that is, the cause they are occupying for. To me it's just a great talking point to make that they are armed to the teeth with firearms and nobody among them has died by one of their own. So it just happens that they are white, right? Haha! No, I think intelligence is a prime factor. But they are white, too.
Maybe go back to RS and give that blue flamer some of that?
Wouldn't do any good. There are a lot of trolls/sockpuppets employed by Think Progress, DNC, Media Matters, etc. They have a job to do.
So true my friend.
"...despite an overall lack of cooperation from gang members..."
Gee, who could have saw that coming?