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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Well, at least "detectives are working aggressively and making optimistic progress in several cases."
MOAR better jernalizzum!
Surely no one expected common sense when they put a gang bangin nigger in the white house?
There was a time in America when we elected presidents to lead the country. Now we just go to the pet shop and find the cutest dick sucking, ball licking monkey and plop them down in the oval office. We leave them there automatically for 8 years now cuz it's to damned expensive to buy new monkeys every 4 years.
Just our luck this year, with the doubling of the debt, we may only be able to afford a wrinkly old, half dead, dried up shemale monkey. How much is that hillary in the window?
Whatchu got against Monkees?
He dindu nuffin.
so let me see--2 guys go into a store to rob it. And htey get shot,
Whats the root cause of the problem.
guns.
being smart enough to know that qualifies me to run for president this year.
no wait, ammo; ammo may be the root cause. let me check with msnbc, they will know.
see, I am smart. when I get elected I am going to make msnbc my cabinet.
Liqueur store had way too much red paint, that is the problem.
Makes clean up after self defense way too easy.
Black lives matter, I tell ya.
I know a guy who used to run a liquor store.
He would answer the "what is the root of the problem" question before you even finished it with a one-word answer: "niggers".
"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."
Ban facebook!
I blame the weather..... No polar vortex.
remove the black from america and few if any shootings would happen over a weekend in baltimore, detroit and chicago..good progessives always look to gun laws, never to a protected class, who votes the party line.
People like yourself make it clear it would not be a bad thing if we were to go extinct.
As it is, demographics will make sure that your legacy ends with you. You will not be missed by anyone.
How about we just start removing gang shooting deaths from the use of unregistered firearms from our .gov statistical calculations compiled to spin the anti-gun narrative? And stop demonizing a fucking tool. At least in America.
Gun violence by Blacks should be another category entirely. Why do I as a white guns owner have to be included in the problem.
Hah, the data used for the statistics have been misceginated!!!
Just wait til the Feds go bankrupt. You're gonna see a lot of starving niggers.
Yaaa, yaaa, yaaa.
Here is a protocol that will grant you your wish of extinction:
1) buy gun (legally or otherwise)
2) buy bullets
3) load bullets into gun
4) place barrel of gun into mouth, preferably targeting the medulla oblongata (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medulla_oblongata)
5) pull trigger
6) if you are a religious type, you may want to pray prior to 5)
"As it is, demographics will make sure that your legacy ends with you. You will not be missed by anyone."
Based on your posts, I get the feeling you have never visited Detroit, most of Baltimore, or large swaths of several larger cities here in the US. You're welcome to move right in and invite these people into your new home.
Please, let us know how well that goes for you.
Eirik, you make me sad to be of Scandinavian descent. However, you could prove your conviction that humanity should go extinct by leading the charge. Please, prove your integrity. Kill yourself.
+1000
Erik is a self loathing troll. His posts are senseless expressions of his mental disorders.
Go die now.
"legacy ends with you".
Says our resident nominally male mudshark. I bet your parents and grandparents are so proud of you, and love the resemblance they see to themsevles they see in your mystery meat children --
The ultimate cuckhold here presumes to tell us what we did wrong?
Fuck off.
As others here have said, when your Swedish brothers evict the mohameddans, then they're going to come looking for the Quislings who enabled and encouraged the invasion, and Eric, that is you.
What do they do to Quislings in Sweden? I mean traditionally. Obviously right now Quislings, mostly female oddly enough, control Sweden's governemnt and press.
That will change. You may want to look at relocatign to your oft-bragged about wife's country.
do we have to remove them? could we just bleach em instead? maybe that's one of the cowboy in the country things.
The problem is not guns.
What's a "not gun"? Did you mean to type "snot guns"?
A bad guy without a gun does far less damage than a bad guy with a gun.
a simple law that takes guns from mentally disturbed people, will help.
soooo, how are all the politicians and the entire military going to function with that new law??
What if the data shows that black men are far more likely to commit a crime with a gun than a mentally disturbed person?
Would you support a simple law that takes guns from only black men?
The data... it does.
Yet...
Fewer then 3% of gun injuries and deaths are caused by a metally disabled person. That's another reason why Soweto's "gun control" order to prevent the metally deranged people from committing violence is a farce.
Thugs kill people, not guns. And certainly extremely few mentally disabled people commit gun crimes.
Too bad the left wing liberal media is the DC propaganda machine or it would have called Soweto out on that point, at least.
no, but i would support a law taking guns from black people who are convicted for serious crimes of have been admitted to psychiatric hospitals with specific diagnoses. same goes for whites and other colours.
Mentally disturbed people have rights too. Pass that law and guess what, now we're all "mentally disturbed", at least in the eyes of Obama and his ilk.
Do you know how they decide if you are mentally ill/disturbed?
By vote.
Yup, really. Nothing to do with any form of science.
The manual which psychiatrists use is the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders". Currently version 4, but 5 is on the way.
So given that they vote disorders into the manual... As a psychiatrist... the more disorders in the manual, the more patients you'll have. And for drug companies, the more drugs you can sell.
So... You see...
And now today we have 1 in 5 on psychiatric drugs!
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/11/17/one-in-five-american-adults-tak...
JACKPOT!
"a simple law that takes guns from mentally disturbed people, will help."
As Mark Denninger would say "the stupid with this one, it burns!"
OK genius, have you ever filled out a Form 4473? Apparently not - you DO realize that you must reveal if you've ever been incarcerated in a mental institution or found to be "mentally disturbed" don't you? And, if you lie on the form, and they find out during the NICS background check, you've just committed a felony!
So, a "simple law" already exists. It's just a shame that the BATFE refuses to prosecute cases where the purchaser lies on the form. The good news? The FF: selling the firearm will not deliver it to the person who fails the NICS check - and that goes for any arm sold by an FFL in his store, at a gun show, or over the internet.
You like guns only in cops hands don't cha?
"You like guns only in cops hands don't cha?"
No.
How did you draw such an idiotic position from me posting about Form 4473 requirements (as it relates to mental health issues)?
I remember that when murder was made illegal, all killing stopped. And I remember when cannabis was banned in the USA, that all cannabis just disappeared. Same for heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine.
It's amazing how when something is outlawed, it just stops because everyone obeys every law at all times.
And Santa Claus comes down your chimney with a big bag of toys, every 12/25 too.
sometimes the problem is guns.
"Damn, fucking gun jammed again."
I told you not to buy that High Point.......
We dont have a gun problem, we have a nigger problem...
Who needs imported terrorism when good ol' domestic gunmen are abundant?
As long as it's black on black.... Why would I give a fuck? By all means keep shooting eachother, going to the abortion clinic and voting for Progressives. Job well done.
But its illegal to own a gun in Chicago, why aren't the criminals following the law???? O thats right, because laws dont mean jack shit.
It's NOT illegal to own a gun in Chicago. That was overturned by the US Circuit court 2 yrs ago. The statement in the article above is incorrect.
It is illegal in dualcitizentown to carry a gun outside your house without a CCW. Or in your car.
Now we know everyone likes to feel safe in their home -- that's a given.
But does the government of rahmtown actually believe that a citizen would not have a right to protect his own life or loved ones outside the home?
Why yes. Yes they do.
Fuck Shitcongo. I've been there. I won't be going back.
tT can burn to the fucking ground and I will simply eat popcorn and cheer on the burners. Start with the Mayor's office and work your way down.
Black Lives Matter - but only when you can gouge something out of Whitey for it.
Gee, if it weren't for the tight gun control in Chicago there would be even more gun violence.
And remember kids -It's like our wonderful friends at the United Nations tell us - "Private gun ownership challenges the legitimate power monopoly of the state."
And... to tell you the truth I'm getting a little tired of all the conspiracy theories and distrust of the government around here.
I was speaking with my cousin last week and out of the blue he tells me - "No one has done more for this country than Obama." (This guy is an honors grad from Cal and a practicing architect.)... he was dead serious!
"Private gun ownership challenges the legitimate power monopoly of the state."
That statement is pretty funny. In one sentence, it defies itself, for the legitimite power of the government is derived from the people.
It's all a matter of perspective, really.
"Private gun ownership challenges the power monopoly of the state."
Try it now.
They UN mind-tricked you by using the word "legitimate".
...Another thing... as much as most people around here adore both Bernie and Hillary (either would make a wonderful chief exec) I have to say I'm leaning toward a draft Rahm Emanuel referendum for Iowa Caucasus. Besides being the son of an Irgun terrorist and a Rothschild agent, Rahm has extensive experience not only in other Cockassus such as doings at Man's Country but inside intimate knowledge of the individual Cockassus of David Axelrod, Bary Soetoro, and so many more.