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Mr. President, Chicago's gun victims need you now
Chicago Tribune ^ | 21 jan 2013 | Thomas Bevan

Posted on 01/21/2013 10:16:49 AM PST by rellimpank

Mr. President, please come to Chicago.

In Washington on Wednesday, as you rolled out a slate of gun control measures quickly cobbled together in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre, you said, "If there is even one thing we can do to reduce this violence, if there is even one life that can be saved, then we've got an obligation to try."

If you believe those words, Mr. President, here is a heartfelt suggestion: Come back to your adopted hometown and personally host a summit that grapples seriously with the causes of — and crafts meaningful solutions to — gang violence in America's big cities.

It's really not much of an exaggeration to say that parts of Chicago resemble a war zone. The numbers are grim. Unofficially, there were 513 homicides in Chicago in 2012, nearly 100 more than in New York City, which recorded 414 killings but which has triple the population. Chicago's body count is 200 more than the number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan last year. The carnage has continued unabated into the New Year.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut; US: Illinois; US: New York
KEYWORDS: banglist; chicago; connecticut; guncontrol; illinois; newyork; newyorkcity; rkba; secondamendment
--not what you may expect--not that THE ONE will do anything real--
1 posted on 01/21/2013 10:16:51 AM PST by rellimpank
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To: rellimpank

The pResident needs to go to ChiKago and ASK all his worshippers for their guns. I’m sure they will hand them over.....
(sarc)


2 posted on 01/21/2013 10:27:41 AM PST by STYRO (Hope you takers don't expect us producers to defend you. War sucks most for the losers.)
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To: rellimpank

This seems to beg the question - if Rahm Emmanuel is the mayor of Chicago, why do they need zero to come and fix their gun problem??

Has Mayor Rahm allowed this “crisis” to go to waste???


3 posted on 01/21/2013 10:30:13 AM PST by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for anti-American criminals!!)
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To: rellimpank

Chicago is basically a “ gun free zone” & a model for what the administration would want to implement across the nation.


4 posted on 01/21/2013 10:32:00 AM PST by Republican1795.
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To: rellimpank

Chicago is basically a “ gun free zone” & a model for what the administration would want to implement across the nation.


5 posted on 01/21/2013 10:33:29 AM PST by Republican1795.
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To: rellimpank

They needed him when he was a State Senator, too


6 posted on 01/21/2013 10:44:10 AM PST by therightliveswithus
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To: rellimpank

fyi

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2980282/posts

If Obama really wants to get serious about gun violence, then all he has to do is turn to the man standing next to him. But Obama, like every Chicago politician before him, don’t want to end the violence. The death toll is profitable, not just for rappers writing bad poetry about dealing drugs and shooting rivals, but for the politicians atop that heap who score money and gain power by using the problems of Obamerica as some sort of call to conscience for the rest of the country.

That’s what Obama is doing now. Hiding behind Newtown and adorable little kids is the grim specter of Obamerica’s death toll. It’s buried inside the gruesome figures of how many Americans are shot each year issued as an indictment against the entire country in general and gun owners in particular. But those numbers are not an indictment of America. They are an indictment of Democratic mayors and Liberal social policy. They are an indictment of Obamerica. They are an indictment of Obama.

This country does not need to have a conversation about how many bullets should go in a clip. It does need to have a conversation about how many parents should go in a family. It needs to talk about the ghettos of Obamerica and have a serious conversation about broken families and generational dependency. It needs to have a conversation about funneling new immigrants from broken parts of the world into areas already suffering from high levels of unemployment and street violence.


7 posted on 01/21/2013 10:58:44 AM PST by GOPJ ( Gang members breaking down YOUR door- daughter and wife screaming for help - Dems took YOUR gun....)
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To: GOPJ

—good post—I posted the Sultan Knish piece on my wife’s Facebook page, btw—


8 posted on 01/21/2013 11:08:23 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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