Posted on 09/06/2022 6:58:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
At least 11 mass shootings have occurred across mostly Democrat-run cities nationwide during Labor Day weekend so far, killing at least 15 people, according to Gun Violence Archive.
Mass shootings have occurred in cities including Saint Paul, Minnesota, Charleston, South Carolina, Chicago, Philadelphia and Cleveland, killing at least 15 people during Labor Day weekend so far, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Most of the cities are run by Democratic mayors.
The weekend’s deadliest mass shooting so far occurred in Saint Paul, Minnesota, represented by Democratic Mayor Melvin Carter III, where three people died and two others were injured on Sept. 5 in the city’s Payne-Phalen neighborhood, according to The Hill.
The Gun Violence Archive defines mass shootings as incidents in which four or more people were shot or killed, excluding the shooter.
The archive identified another mass shooting that killed two people and injured three in Philadelphia on Sept. 5, where President Joe Biden gave a speech lambasting former President Donald Trump’s supporters as a “threat to democracy” a few days earlier.
Two dead & 3 wounded in another Philadelphia’s mass shooting. Crime Scene Unit count 55 bullet shells. 7th & Russell Streets in North Philadelphia before 1am. @PhillyPolice report at least one female among those killed & juvenile among wounded. @FOX29philly pic.twitter.com/15f6KFhBvG
— Steve Keeley (@KeeleyFox29) September 5, 2022
At least nine people were killed and an additional 19 were injured by gunfire in Philadelphia overall during the weekend, according to Metro Philadelphia.
Two men, one 18 and the other 20 years old, were killed out of four people shot outside a residence in Chicago on Sept. 4. This makes up 46 people shot and seven wounded during the weekend overall in Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s city, according to ABC 7.
Chicago is one of the strictest cities on guns. Meanwhile, Illinois was the first state to eliminate cash bail in 2021.
Democratic Mayor John Tecklenburg of Charleston blamed “illegal guns” and “repeat offenders” for a shooting of a 13-year-old on Sept. 4, and another shooting a few hours later, injuring five people in downtown Charleston, Live 5 News WCSC reported.
“But the hard truth is this: In South Carolina, only the state legislature has the authority to reform our laws with regard to illegal guns and repeat violent offenders. As a city, we’re literally prohibited from taking action in either area,” he insisted, according to Live 5 News WCSC.
The Republican Party currently controls the state’s governor’s office and both chambers in its Legislature, according to BallotPedia.
climate change strikes again.
Illegal guns———UH ghen. 😵🤔🐎💩
It’s un-Unionotic to waste ammunition on Labor day! Haven’t these people ever heard of “cement overshoes” and “sleepin’ wit da fishes?” Geez.
RATS like it like that…defund the police!…
These numbers are low.
Fourteen were killed in Chicago alone.
I believe it. Chicago gets most of the press, but St. Louis and Memphis have far higher murder rates.
That’s Old School......................😜😉
“Gun violence“ is a threat to our demography...I mean democracy.
Good question so I looked on HeyJackass Chicago site.
The way I read it there were seven double shootings resulting in two deaths total. These do not qualify as mass shootings.
There was one shooting of four people; one death.
Net: of the 62 people shot down in the streets of Chicago over the long Labor Day weekend, only one of the shootings can be classified as a “mass shooting.”
With that, I'm feeling much better about taking a vacation in Chicago and experiencing the big city culture.
I’m sure that there are some areas that are safe, even at night.
“I’m sure that there are some areas that are safe, even at night.”
I’m sure there are, although I was unnerved by the daylight attack on the auto show room.
But that was last December and I’ve heard things in Chicago are now back to normal.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/smash-and-grab-chicago-car-showroom-steal-watches-millions
Wait till the Mexicans form their own clicks. Then you will see REAL things happen. lol
Follow-up to what we discussed earlier.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4091437/posts
But why shouldn't crime flow to the leafy parts of town; take from the rich - that's where the money is.
And authorities are helpless to do anything.
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