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Chicago mayor clashes with Cruz over gun violence: ‘Keep our name out of your mouth’
Fox News ^ | September 3, 2019 | Adam Shaw

Posted on 09/03/2019 8:06:04 AM PDT by jazusamo

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot clashed with Sen. Ted Cruz over the latest burst of gun violence in the city, claiming Monday that Chicago’s decades-long crime problem is actually the fault of Republican-run states like Indiana – because they don’t have “commonsense gun legislation” in place.

The retort came after Cruz, R-Texas, tweeted that “gun control doesn’t work” and pointed to the Democrat-run city as evidence that “disarming law-abiding citizens isn’t the answer.” His tweet referenced an article reporting that at least 25 people were shot in Chicago during Labor Day weekend amid a continuing crime wave in the city.

“Stopping violent criminals—prosecuting & getting them off the street—BEFORE they commit more violent crimes is the most effective way to reduce murder rates," Cruz tweeted. "Let’s protect our citizens.”

Lightfoot, elected mayor earlier this year, tweeted a graphic claiming that the top 10 source states of recovered firearms between 2013-2016 included Indiana, Mississippi and Wisconsin.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; chicago; chicagoviolence; genderdysphoria; guncontrol; gungrabbers; homosexualagenda; idiot; lorilightfoot; mayorlightfoot; nra; secondamendment; tedcruz; texas
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To: jazusamo

The list of things libtards can’t handle—
open job market
private property rights
education and by extension college admissions
free speech
free association
freedom of religion
2d amendment
—is about at the point where it’s time to start asking some very pointed questions as to whether these people are actually Americans.


21 posted on 09/03/2019 8:21:29 AM PDT by ameribbean expat (Socialism is like a nude beach - - sounds great til you actually get there. -- David Burge.)
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To: jazusamo

Chicago’s problems won’t be solved until all the street gangs turn up dead with their former victim neighbors all expressing complete dismay because they certainly didn’t see or hear anything....


22 posted on 09/03/2019 8:21:45 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Rurudyne

I know! And it’s so tragic cause all those guys were turning their lives around and heading to med school!


23 posted on 09/03/2019 8:23:17 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: jazusamo

So criminals from her city are out and about being criminals and stealing guns and buying guns illegally from other cities and states and bringing them back to chicongo.

This is already illegal and proves the points that criminals ignore gun laws and the gun control does not work.

The democrats who have run Chicongo for many decades, including this lady, have, all by themselves, created a culture that seems to enjoy the sport or recreational homicide.

The democrats, including this mayor, have created this culture of death and are now doing anything and everything in their power to blame anyone and everyone else for what they, and only they, have created.

BS woman, leave the rest of us out of your democrat created private world of death.

The rest of America did not plant, cultivate, and grow your culture and we would never accept the rampart death of our young that is tolerated there.

Any sane person would take their family and move the hell out of your culture of homicide.

But we notice that those who are immersed in that violent local culture would rather stay there and watch their kids die then escape to a safe situation.

None of this is anyone’s fault except those who formed shaped and grew that culture, and now accept that culture. Even more stupid are those who refuse to leave your culture and by choice leave their children at very high risk of death.

Do not blame others for the insane choices that you democrats have been making for decades.


24 posted on 09/03/2019 8:23:52 AM PDT by oldenuff35
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“Lightfoot, elected mayor earlier this year, tweeted a graphic claiming that the top 10 source states of recovered firearms between 2013-2016 included Indiana, Mississippi and Wisconsin.”

So we know where the feral thugs from her city are going to steal and illegally obtain the firearm they use in Chicongo, the city of recreational homicide.


25 posted on 09/03/2019 8:27:23 AM PDT by oldenuff35
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To: SES1066

‘Keep our name out of your mouth’
______________

That’s the new saying by the dems. I’ve heard it several times. The idiots think it makes them sound tough.


26 posted on 09/03/2019 8:28:30 AM PDT by Conserv
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To: jazusamo

Boy, you sure can’t point out what lousy jobs Democrats are doing these days (or any days).


27 posted on 09/03/2019 8:28:32 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: oldenuff35

Good post, and true. Agree with all of it except her being a lady.


28 posted on 09/03/2019 8:29:17 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

She’s a democrat, so exploring viable solutions to her city’s problems isn’t really on the agenda.


29 posted on 09/03/2019 8:34:25 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Still Thinking

... for all the drugs they sell they should be in Medical school....


30 posted on 09/03/2019 8:35:07 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Of course she doesn’t really care about the gun violence in her city. The Democrats are too busy trying to stop police from arresting the black gangbangers who are frequently murdering other blacks there. The Dems have already declared themselves on the side of the black criminals rather than the black victims, and that’s been clear for a while. And naturally they don’t want anyone talking about how many innocent blacks and other people who die because of their pro-criminal stance.


31 posted on 09/03/2019 8:36:54 AM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: jazusamo

Obviously the truth hurts.

You know the phrase, “You take the most flak when you are right over the target”


32 posted on 09/03/2019 8:40:41 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: jazusamo
Mental illness runs deep in the Democrat party.

Mental illness is a prerequisite to being a dem. I've not met a sane dem in the last 10-15 years. Before that there were a few, very few, but few moderates that I could get along with.

33 posted on 09/03/2019 8:50:49 AM PDT by Boomer (Our melting pot has turned into a pressure cooker)
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To: jazusamo
claiming Monday that Chicago’s decades-long crime problem is actually the fault of Republican-run states like Indiana – because they don’t have “commonsense gun legislation” in place

This is what the mentally ill (child-like) dems do. They blame others for their problems because their way will never fix the problems they have. Chicago has been a dem run city for decades. All their problems can be laid right at the feet of the dem way of thinking.

The definition of insanity is to do the same wrong thing over and over expecting a better outcome that never happens. The very definition of Chicago politics.

Chicago; the city that produced the worst President this country has ever seen. Barack "The Muslim Marxist" Hussein Obama. That right there explains everything anyone needs to know about Chicago. It could be a good city but it chooses to be a loser by voting dems into office. They got the government they deserve.

34 posted on 09/03/2019 8:58:15 AM PDT by Boomer (Our melting pot has turned into a pressure cooker)
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To: jazusamo

Hah! Hah!
Chicago is the poster child for the failure of Gun Control.


35 posted on 09/03/2019 8:59:24 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: jazusamo

“How DARE you point out the gun violence in democrat controlled Chicago?”


36 posted on 09/03/2019 9:06:04 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: Conserv
‘Keep our name out of your mouth’ ______________ That’s the new saying by the dems. I’ve heard it several times. The idiots think it makes them sound tough.

That particular phrase implies a specific physical threat (I am going to do something violent to damage your mouth if you say my name again). It only works as a threat if you have the means to intimidate the person saying it physically, but it strongly suggests that you intend to carry out physical violence if you are further defied. If a prominent republican would say that phrase in a tweet to a sitting Democratic senator, it would lead the nightly news for a week.

37 posted on 09/03/2019 9:07:59 AM PDT by jz638
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To: laweeks

She’s Shep Smith’s twin sister don’t you know? They both have those eyes that just a little too far apart, but enough to make you wonder what’s wrong with that person’s eyes?


38 posted on 09/03/2019 9:09:20 AM PDT by sgt_lau (Being tolerant to the most intolerant people on the planet is a losing proposition. Reject islam.)
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To: Be Free

“If these other States’ “lax” gun laws were the problem, wouldn’t it then follow that their gun-violence problems would be on par (or worse) than Chicago’s?”

You post a very good question. Very good.


39 posted on 09/03/2019 9:09:24 AM PDT by semaj (We are the People)
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To: jazusamo

FUGLY LESBIAN!!


40 posted on 09/03/2019 9:09:37 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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