Posted on 08/17/2016 7:15:57 PM PDT by Lorianne
Nearly 100 people have been shot in Chicago in less than a week, pushing the number of shooting victims so far this year to more than 2,500 — about 800 more than this time last year, according to data kept by the Tribune.
Between last Friday afternoon and early Thursday, at least 99 people were shot in the city, 24 of them fatally. At least nine people were killed on Monday alone, the deadliest day in Chicago in 13 years, according to Tribune data. Among the wounded that day was a 10-year-old boy shot in the back as he played on his front porch in Lawndale. The number of shooting victims in Chicago stood at 2,514 Thursday morning. At this time last year, 1,725 people had been shot. The city has not seen this level of gun violence since the 1990s, a trend the Police Department has blamed on lax gun laws and feuding gang factions.
Over eight hours from Wednesday evening through early Thursday, three people were killed and at least 10 others were wounded in the city.
A 45-year-old man was killed and two others were wounded when someone walked up to their van in the Gresham neighborhood around 1:55 a.m. Thursday, yelled "Hey" and started shooting, police said.
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hope and change
Descendants of Mrs. O’Leary cow, no doubt.
Who’s lives matter now? Who is shooting who now? Who are the racist moon-bats now?
__________ Lives Matter?
“At this point, what difference does it make?”
Collateral damage for a bigger agenda. No lives matter to tyrants/totalitarians/scumbags/socialists/elitists/eugenicists/parasites/progressives.
You gotta be kidding me.
Screw ‘em.
Airdrop more guns and ammo into the streets.
Nearly 90 more people shot in less than a week in Chicago than have been shot in the county I live in (heavily armed) during the last 150 years!
Odungoville
Some really heartbreaking cases. Kids out playing. Innocent people just going about their lives. One man, married 18 years to the mother of his children, employed, who caught a stray bullet as he was sitting at his kitchen table paying bills. I feel for the good people who have to live with this every day just outside their homes. As far as I can tell, there is nothing that can be done about it. Too many are have no concept of civilized behavior. As Stalin said, “the death of one man is a tragedy; the death of millions is a statistic.” The names and faces of this week’s victims will be forgotten by all but their families and friends by the time next week’s statistics are out, if they are not forgotten already.
Trump was great on black crime victims last night. Those are the lives which really matter not some thug waving a gun at a cop.
Don’t worry, I’m fine. I haven’t been shot yet. Heavily invested in Kevlar here. Safe routes in/out of Chicago daily. :-)
Yes. That’s whom he needs to appeal to. Last month they were advertising some local TV program (I didn’t see it) that was a discussion of the problem of black shooting victims, focusing, of course, on those shot by police. One BLM type gets up there and says, “don’t talk to me about black-on-black crime.” Don’t talk to him??? He just admitted that, since all of the innocents cannot be exploited for his cause, he doesn’t care. I hope people see them for the frauds they are.
Only Some Black Lives Matter is paid to undermine cops and raise hell.
I weep for the city I was born in.
Silk, of Diamond and Silk, had an interesting point in their video the other day—Hillary is from Chicago, Obama lived in Chicago, and yet neither one has done anything to help that city.
I was there recently and there was a young woman killed on Lake Shore Drive!!! (it was 2 or 3 a.m., but still!)
Zero’s home town. You can tell it has really bothered him in the last oh, 7 years, between endless rounds of golf.
What a lazy, detached, disgrace of a president. To watch his own people kill each other year after year by the thousands and say virtually nothing about it.
This guy, like Killary, has no soul at all. That you can take to the bank.
Good news if they were all gang bangers in the hood.
LOL! "lax" gun laws?
They should read the studies by a University of Chicago professor, John Lott, who has demonstrated that states with concealed carry have lower crime levels.
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