The untold story of this sad affair is the number of wounded. People seldom just walk away after being hit with a “Niner” or a Glock “foo-dey.” This means of course, we taxpayers pick up the tab for surgery/recovery/therapy and perhaps SSI. Welcome to America....
Black lives really don’t matter, globally, nationally or local. Never have.
Just saying.
They haven’t tried a “Murder Free Zone” sign around the city yet?
No lives matter to criminals, collectivists, socialists, gangs, governments, tyrants, totalitarians.
Be prepared.
Maybe “common sense gun control” would be to make it a felony to possess a firearm if you are a black male under 30-years of age. This small infringement of a Constitutional right would be narrowly focused and designated to a specific problem. The new Clinton Supreme Court would surely not have a problem finding it OK.
Judge Roberts can find ANYTHING is Constitutional when he wants to.
Oldplayer
As of a couple days ago, the lowly Phillies had scored only 506 runs all year. It is a contest between the Phil hitters and the Chicago thugs. Fortunately for the Chicago thugs, their season lasts the rest of the year.
Maybe “common sense gun control” would be to make it a felony to possess a firearm if you are a black male under 30-years of age. This small infringement of a Constitutional right would be narrowly focused and designated to a specific problem. The new Clinton Supreme Court would surely not have a problem finding it OK.
Judge Roberts can find ANYTHING is Constitutional when he wants to.
Oldplayer
500 homicides - Isn’t it about time for some democrat gun control?
We're driving down the same road as the old CCCP.
What’s sad is that if ANY of these gangbangers could shoot the toll would be FAR higher.
“It’s not a police issue, it’s a society issue,”
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Hammer meet nail...
Can we conclude decades of work by liberal activists (Saul Alinsky, Frank Marshall Davis, Jessie Jackson, Barack Obama, and Bill Ayers) and leadership of Democrat mayors (Rahm Emanuel, two Richard Daleys, Jane Byrne, Harold Washington) has been an abysmal failure?
Not my problem. Vote for corrupt Democrats for decades you get the Hell hole you deserve. There’s a reason I live out in the country and will never visit any of these cities.
Maybe they should make it illegal to illegally carry a gun.
I’ve spent time on the South Side of Chicago (outside of Obama’s Hyde Park). Have made a point to learn about the place, including the worst neighborhoods - Englewood, Auburn, Garfield, etc...
IMHO, the communities there aren’t as fractured as a lot of inner cities in the USA. You still see a lot of churches, community organizations, and neighborhood groups. The areas are all traditional African-American, so there’s a lot of cultural uniformity and strong group identity. You still see some decent housing and streets with people who know each other, trying to lead normal lives among the chaos.
Both the direct violent, and indirect problems of broken families, are caused, nearly exclusively, by a small subset of young males, ages 15-29.
I know its a total fiction, but if the community could force, in regimented, military style, young men of those ages to be either in school or at work (ie. be productive and responsible) - the South Side of Chicago would eventually be as peaceful as Switzerland.
So, they still seem to be reproducing at a faster rate than liberals are aborting them.
And getting them spun up to the point they are destroying their own homes and killing each other in the streets is being effective.
But what else does the Democrat Party have lined up so more blacks will die faster?
One would reasonably expect that being from Chicago, America’s first black President would have the interest and resources, to aide Chicago to be the best it is capable of being.
But I can accept that perhaps it actually is; that the black community is this criminally violent, after generations of welfare and fatherless children, and politicians afraid to speak up.
Obama’s legacy will be that he left blacks worse off, than he found them. So much for expecting any results, from community organizing.