Posted on 11/20/2015 6:18:46 AM PST by rellimpank
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--State legislators and aldermen shouldn't move on. Yet they always do:
•In the weeks since someone killed Tyshawn, how many Chicago state senators and representatives have you heard pledging to toughen Illinois' light sentences for gun offenders? Two years ago, the legislators' power play blocked a mildly stronger gun-sentences bill that united Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the National Rifle Association as odd-couple supporters. We don't know if that legislation would have protected Tyshawn. We do know that by keeping shooters off the streets longer, and maybe deterring some gun crimes, it would make Chicago safer. Yet Chicago's lawmakers, legislative leaders included, do nothing.--
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Trump supported Rahm, so he must be supported here, right?
:)
Tougher gun crime sentencing is racist.
There can be no solution as long as any solution is labeled “racist”.
Yes, just ask ACORN, ‘er BLM, or whatever their cover name is today.
Unless a police officer is involved they could care less!!!
Chicago’s problem is that the entire state and the city itself are corrupt, which will render law enforcement useless, except in cases where one crime faction attacks another using the law. Even were the corruption to be expunged completely, it will take outright force to establish law and order. And since that force would largely fall on some ‘protected’ minorities it will not be employed.
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