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Gun Control Won’t Fix Chicago
Wall Street Journal ^ | 7/5/2016 | Jason L Riley

Posted on 07/06/2016 4:29:39 AM PDT by simpson96

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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Yes, you should upgrade. Though I use Chrome and it updates automatically.


21 posted on 07/06/2016 6:12:40 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Did you get pears?)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Yes, I pointed out the "push back" by black leaders about gentrification in their neighborhoods. They have successfully blocked companies like Whole Foods and Trader Joes from going into their neighborhoods - than they complain that their constituents have no supermarket options and have to buy groceries at overpriced convenience stores!

The neighborhoods I'm talking about in Brooklyn and Queens were not predominantly black to begin with. So they had less resistance to gentrification. I think that is key to improving our inner cities however. Who really wants to live in a ghetto? Certainly nobody is going to go there for some jazz music and coffee.

It seems that Democrats and black leaders want to keep their people down and out - where they must crawl to them for handouts. Those that escape with honest jobs are often tagged as "uncle Toms". So many of them see their only options of escape as an athlete or rapper. Not a good situation.

22 posted on 07/06/2016 6:18:00 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Did you get pears?)
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To: VTenigma

I’m with you. Beyond caring. Thankful this is concentrated in Chi-town. Granted, other “big cities,” controlled almost exclusively by Democrats, have this trouble. But nothing like Chicago. Let ‘em rot.


23 posted on 07/06/2016 6:26:56 AM PDT by upchuck (I'm hanging here until my Free Republic 401K is fully vested.)
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24 posted on 07/06/2016 6:59:01 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: simpson96

Maybe they should get off the porch and out of the street and hang out back.


25 posted on 07/06/2016 7:07:45 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: simpson96

What haven’t they tried? They could cordon off the gang areas and confiscate all the guns. But, then who would be able to force all the Bolshie voters to the polls while the gangs take most of their welfare. That would shut down another Bolshecrat money laundering scheme.


26 posted on 07/06/2016 7:08:40 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (If you like your part-time job, you can keep your part-time job. Vote Bolshecrat.)
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