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56 shot, 12 dead in Chicago's Memorial Day Weekend
americanthinker.com ^ | 5/26/2015 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 05/26/2015 7:59:04 AM PDT by rktman

At least 56 people were shot over Memorial Day weekend between Friday afternoon and early Tuesday morning, according to authorities.

Twelve people, including three shot Monday afternoon, died from their wounds. Twelve others shot between late Monday morning and early Tuesday morning survived their gunshot wounds, bringing the total of non-fatal gunshot victims for the weekend to 44.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: banglist; bluezones; chicago; deathtoll; gunfreezones; punks; urban
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Gunfree mecca. I saw the stats from B'more for the weekend someplace and it appears they need to pick up the pace if they want to be in the same league as chit-cago. Maybe nannie bloomers was right that inner city minorities need to be restricted from possessing firearms. We all know that placing restrictions on things immediately brings a halt to those activities. Right?
1 posted on 05/26/2015 7:59:04 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

Chicago is worse than Ramadi.


2 posted on 05/26/2015 8:01:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: rktman

Black lives matter.

Apparently not.


3 posted on 05/26/2015 8:03:21 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: rktman

Thugs and their parties.


4 posted on 05/26/2015 8:03:25 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: rktman
Gun Free Zone....can't be.

Dimocrats are in control....can't be.

Any coverage of this in the LSM??

5 posted on 05/26/2015 8:04:14 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: rktman

Will someone please logically explain to me why this mass criminal murder is a reason for law abiding people of all races to abandon their self defense fire arms, instead of being an excellent argument for all law abiding people to arm themselves against these evil orcs.


6 posted on 05/26/2015 8:07:14 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: fatnotlazy

Black lives matter only if black victims are shot by white police or white Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteers.

Black lives clearly do not matter if they are killed by other blacks.


7 posted on 05/26/2015 8:08:12 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: rktman

As long as they stay in their alternate dimension go ahead and kill each other.
Otherwise,its a cause to be celebrate. Because i do not live in a hellhole on earth.


8 posted on 05/26/2015 8:08:59 AM PDT by Leep ("Soon you won't be able to live in America as a Muslim. The noose is tightening," Elton Simpson)
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Perhaps the residents could take up rioting full time to keep the death toll down.


9 posted on 05/26/2015 8:10:27 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: null and void; Nachum; Kartographer; LucyT; butterdezillion; INVAR; Dick Bachert; GOPJ; BCW; ...
H/T to our FRiend rktman for the post.

And the body count from Chicongo continues to climb - but per capita, Baltamoral is doing much worse.

None of which, of course, is being reported by the Left...

For thus has the Lord said unto me:
“Go, set a watchman, Let him declare what he sees.”
Isaiah 21:6

The Watchman Ping List - FReepmail Old Sarge for details!

10 posted on 05/26/2015 8:18:27 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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Hmmm, jessie and al are suspiciously (but not surprisingly) quiet and absent. So there IS something that will shut those 2 up. Interesting.


11 posted on 05/26/2015 8:21:54 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: libstripper

I would appreciate a breakdown by 4 categories:
licensed carriers killing in defense
licensed carriers killing criminally
unlicensed carriers killing in defense
unlicensed carriers killing criminally.


12 posted on 05/26/2015 8:26:30 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: rktman

The whole culture could have been designed by Margaret Sanger as a post birth population reduction method.


13 posted on 05/26/2015 8:28:24 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Of those born of women there is not risen one greater than John The Baptist.)
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"white Hispanic"

Without a doubt, my favorite thing that came out of the whole Trayvon Martin circus. Such a beautiful illustration of the absolute, disingenuous, deceptive derangement of the liberal left...

Speaking of Trayvon, someone on here posted a poem several years back, facetiously attributed to "Maya Angeloo". If I knew how to track it down on FR, I would just post a link. But, since I don't, I will have to post it here in it's entirety (because it was so awesome that I saved a copy of it at the time it was posted). Just a brilliant piece of satire/parody - still makes me laugh every time I read it (and I always imagine it being read by Maya Angelou, which makes it even funnier). If you find it offensive/insensitive, that's OK, but if you don't appreciate how funny it is, you are either stupid, and/or have no sense of humor (in other words, you are a liberal). To whomever wrote it, my apologies for not being able to give you the recognition you deserve!


Trayvon
 by Maya Angeloo

I sing of thee Trayvon,
Lamented burnt umber crayon.
Should of stayed at home
and got your lay-on.
But you heard the siren song of wet grass
and headed for Seven Elevon.

Zimmerman the triggerman,
Big game hunter lay in wait,
White hispanic in a panic,
Rubberheaded, held your fate.

By punching him, you tried to reason.
You can't of known - 'twas black-boy season.
Stand your ground, ground and pound,
Frito Bandito shot you down.

14 posted on 05/26/2015 8:35:04 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: fatnotlazy
Exactly. Maybe these black criminal thugs in Chicago can let all the protestors in the country know that black lives really don't matter.

democRAT stronghold and Obama's old stomping grounds, South "Out-Of-Control" Chicago.

15 posted on 05/26/2015 8:35:21 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: Louis Foxwell

I’ll bet one of those categories is empty.


16 posted on 05/26/2015 8:56:48 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: rktman

Slow weekend?


17 posted on 05/26/2015 9:00:16 AM PDT by Fzob (Let the saving love of Christ be the measure of our lives.)
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And yet, we are still hearing about the biker gunfight in Texas, something that doesn't happen very often. Yet these totals from Chicago are pretty much standard fare for a weekend in Chi-town.
18 posted on 05/26/2015 9:07:22 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason ("Journalism is dead. All news is suspect." - Noamie)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Chicago is over-achieving. On average, 6 out of 7 people shot with handguns survive. Or only 1 in 7 die. By that measure there should have only been 8 fatalities from 56 shot... So at 12, well, maybe they’ve been working on their marksmanship...


19 posted on 05/26/2015 9:13:56 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: rktman

Al.. Jesse... where you be?


20 posted on 05/26/2015 9:16:44 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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