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Report: Far More People Killed In Chicago Than In All Mass Shootings Combined
Breitbart Big Government ^ | 6/12/14 | Awr Hawkins

Posted on 06/12/2014 1:11:24 PM PDT by Nachum

While announcing that they would not longer give killers the opportunity at glory that comes from having their names mentioned and their photographs aired on television, Sun News also address the extremely low rate of "mass shootings" in America compared to the excruciatingly high rate of murder in gun-controlled Chicago. According to the Sun News, mass shootings around the world--including the U.S.--are so rare that news agencies make a mistake by seizing on them. Focusing specifically on the U.S., Sun News reported: "And in the U.S., they account for less than one percent of all gun-related deaths. Far more people

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chicago; mass; shootings

1 posted on 06/12/2014 1:11:24 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Ban Chicago.


2 posted on 06/12/2014 1:12:22 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: fwdude

You are hardcore. I just unfriended them was all.


3 posted on 06/12/2014 1:34:51 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Happier than a Svoboda skinhead with a free new armband.)
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To: Nachum

I’ve never understood the hyper-focus on “a certain number of deaths in one time and place,” as opposed to the same number of deaths more widely scattered. Are the people who died in a natural disaster on Tuesday more dead than the same number who died in auto accidents?


4 posted on 06/12/2014 1:35:31 PM PDT by Tax-chick (When the truth finally dawns, it dawns in fire!)
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To: Nachum

Gun prosecutions under Obama down more than 45 percent

http://washingtonexaminer.com/gun-prosecutions-under-obama-down-more-than-45-percent/article/2516175#.UNCXuHfZ-pc

What difference does it make?


5 posted on 06/12/2014 1:50:17 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Nachum

Chicago’s motto..’We kill them one at a time’


6 posted on 06/12/2014 2:11:31 PM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Nachum

Somebody might create a real troll with a poll in Chicago about executing murderers by hanging. Of course, it would not be a “scientific” poll, whatever that means anymore.

“Should Illinois juries have the option to sentence murderers to be executed by hanging?”

Imagine the shrill cries from the usual suspects.


7 posted on 06/12/2014 2:33:28 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Nachum

Some of those people killed in Chicago were killed in mass shootings.


8 posted on 06/12/2014 2:40:39 PM PDT by x
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