... and the cops add to their personal gun collections ...
DO BEARS PREVENT FORREST FIRES?
But, that's not who they care about at all.
He is especially stressed these days, it seems some Obama voters have taken to prowling the Lincoln Park neighborhood to committ assault and robbery on pedestrians. This is serious business alot of white libs live there, and they do not want to have to move back to the North Shore to be safe in their undying proclamations of love for liberalism, and they would take a bath on the resale. So Dick Daley is grasping at straws while another Democratic city implodes, soon to be the New Detroit. I expect one day to wake up and see smoke in the East as Chicago burns and the refugees stream out to my burb.
Innocent victim shot three times in head...trying to shield a young relative from the bullets. Wait a second.
A three shot group into an area the size of a head takes a lot of attention even at point blank range. And when a head is hit by bullets, it tends to move, being connected to the body. This tells me that unless she was lying down, somebody very intentionally shot her from a short distance away, and continued to aim and shoot her after she moved.
Something is very wrong with this story.
Of course they do, they keep grandma from shooting the thugs breaking into her house a week after she turned her only gun in.
(FR is verrrrrry slow today.)
hey when you can take a gas pipe in and a 2x4 and make it look like a gun and some dufas gives you $100.00 that a good deal!
Boortz did a study of the stats for gun buy backs and found that it takes 65,000 guns to prevent ONE gun-related death.
Hardly cost effective, especially sinct THAT death — as are MOST of them — is almost certainly drug or gang related folks offing one another.
I’d say THAT comes under the heading of a public service.
In Chicago shootings have a cause other than firearms.
IMHO, I would think it depends TOTALLY on what kind of example the "organizers" and leaders promoting the program set.
These gun buyback programs were the forerunners of cash for clunkers. Gun buybacks provided the illegal gun owner with a nice down payment on a newer and deadlier model.
Families living in one Chicago neighborhood are fed up with seeing violence outside their window every night. Some people in Uptown say their neighborhood is under attack and they don't feel safe.
CBS 2's Dorothy Tucker reports that people in parts of Uptown are afraid to walk outside at night. They say the fighting and gunfire starts around 9 p.m., and it's been chaos for the last three nights.
"I saw groups of young men fighting with each other, throwing bottles," said Uptown resident Robert Warden. "They were all over the street."
An eyewitness to the mayhem describes the video that captured the violence. Robert Warden watched this on Wednesday night from his window near the corner of Sheridan and Leland.
"People with kids are trying to get away from it, people in cars are pulling over to try and hide from it. And it's ridiculous," Warden said.
Warden is among the many who saw the video on the Uptown Update website. He and dozens of others see this as evidence of the growing gang activity in a community that is home to both homeless shelters and huge mansions.
"When the weather gets hot, you hear some gunfire," an Uptown resident said.
Police did respond to the fight. About halfway through the video, you see a squad car rolling by. Witnesses say a few minutes later a dozen marked cars converged on the scene, and police confirm that one person was arrested.
At one point on the tape, you can hear someone shouting gang names, but police told CBS 2 that the incident was not described as gang-related in the police report. Police seem to point the finger at the large number of homeless young men who live in the area and are having conflicts.
"The comment was that gangbangers use guns. Well, who's to say that they didn't have a car parked down the street here that had a gun in it?" said Uptown resident Jarred Smith.
For the most part, neighbors say police respond quickly to 911 calls for help, but when they've reached out to their Alderman Helen Shiller, they say they get little response.
"Whenever you call her and try and get any response, if you invite her to a CAPS meeting, if you invite her to a neighborhood meeting, she doesn't show up," Warden said.
Neighbors say they'd like to talk to Ald. Shiller about increasing police patrols in the area. CBS 2 tried to talk to the alderman about the neighbor's concerns. However, she has yet to return our numerous phone calls.
Yeah, they prevent the idiots turning them in from being able to shoot criminals trying to rob, murder, rape and physically maim them.