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HEAVY METAL: Chicago Gangs Are Now In An Escalating Rifle War
Bearing Arms ^ | February 28, 2017 | Bob Owens

Posted on 02/28/2017 12:33:52 PM PST by detective

Not too long ago, Chicago’s bloody gang warfare was restricted to small, concealable handguns. That’s not the case anymore.

The first time 14-year-old Brisa Ramirez remembers hearing rifle fire was when a man was shot dead on a Sunday afternoon outside a Catholic church around the corner from her home in Back of the Yards.

She raises her voice to imitate the sharp, metallic bursts. Ta. Ta. Ta. Ta. Ta. It was a foreign sound even in this neighborhood accustomed to gunfire.

“It wasn’t like a normal (shooting). … It was like something more terrible,” Brisa says. “A noise that you can’t really explain.”

She and others in Davis Square Park took cover against concrete steps across the street from Seward Elementary School, where Brisa had just graduated from eighth grade.

The shooting was one of at least 33 in Back of the Yards and Brighton Park over the past nine months that police believe are tied to semi-automatic rifles as several gangs boost their firepower. At least 46 people have been shot in the attacks, 13 fatally.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; gangs
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Killings in Chicago continue to escalate.
1 posted on 02/28/2017 12:33:52 PM PST by detective
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To: detective

Is it officially a no-go zone yet?


2 posted on 02/28/2017 12:39:17 PM PST by PGR88
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To: detective

The violent crooks have guns. Politicians do all they can to take guns away from non-violent citizens. The only conclusion is that the politicians deliberately leave guns in the hands of violent criminals while trying to take them away from non-violent citizens.


3 posted on 02/28/2017 12:39:39 PM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: detective

Arrest, Jail and/or execution of violent criminals. Bingo. Violence ends. Chicagoans keep voting in scum like Rahm Emmanuel and what you now have is what you get.


4 posted on 02/28/2017 12:43:57 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: detective

It’s a culture thing. Those in the neighborhoods know who the bad guys are, but won’t “snitch”.


5 posted on 02/28/2017 12:46:12 PM PST by glorgau
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To: detective
It may take the firepower of the US military to finally end the scourge--and it may happen if these shootings start happening along Chicago's Magnificent Mile.
6 posted on 02/28/2017 12:48:21 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: PGR88

“Back of the Yards” was the site of the old Mayor Daley homestead. It was peaceful in those days.


7 posted on 02/28/2017 12:54:18 PM PST by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: Don Corleone

Daley lived in Bridgeport.


8 posted on 02/28/2017 12:56:35 PM PST by Neanderthal
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To: detective

The dindus have brought the Congo to Chicago.

Deport them back to Africa where they belong.


9 posted on 02/28/2017 12:56:52 PM PST by bkopto
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To: detective

This is intentional. Don’t doubt it for a second.


10 posted on 02/28/2017 1:09:42 PM PST by Hugh the Scot ( Total War)
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To: detective
Wait until the Didnu's break out he life jackets and wedding dresses.....as everyone knows...they save your life!



11 posted on 02/28/2017 1:12:34 PM PST by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: detective

One of Saul Alinsky's old haunts.

Alinsky is dead, so therefor can no longer "help".

Where's the premier trainee of Saul's "Industrial Area Foundation" community organizing, how to home-grow a community agitator program? Those guys were supposed to lead to the dawning of a New (agnostic), "yes we can" Day.

What's 0bama's excuse?

The prescribed cure from that donkey will (of course) be;

"Take guns away from everybody(!)", ('cuz too many of his peeps are killin' machines-- will kill you for merely dissing, or "shading" them...)

Is it "rascist" to tell the truth about a majority of last few decades Chicago killings? You tell us that, mr's ex-presidents Bronco Bammy, and "W" Bush.

Meanwhile, there are one heck of a lot of black folks who are sort-of stuck in those "communities" who are the prime next potential victims of the cold-blooded, neighborhood menace killin' machines --- who one can't hardly tell where and when they'll go off next.

Lets' not forget those people who want no part of the killings, and have been (in Chicago areas) suffering the most.

Whatever the root causes of the violent, epidemic-like ongoing shoot-em ups;
It sure ain't because of some gun-toting cracker down in Florida, or a cowboy-roughneck kind of guy out in Wyoming who has hunting rifles, and maybe a semi-auto rifle for 'just in case' things turn ugly he'll be able to protect himself, like; -- fight crime -- shoot back.

Those people (who do not live in Chicago) are not the cause of violent murders in Chicago.

12 posted on 02/28/2017 1:17:39 PM PST by BlueDragon (my kinfolk had to fight off wagon burnin' scalp taking Comanches, reckon we could take on a few more)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Ping.


13 posted on 02/28/2017 1:22:27 PM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: Vaquero

Sh*tcago is getting exactly what they deserve! As you say they keep doing the same thing over and over and expect a different outcome. I don’t pity them one bit, they deserve to be held up for scorn and ridicule as to how NOT to run a city.


14 posted on 02/28/2017 1:22:35 PM PST by sarge83
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To: I want the USA back

“Escape from New York”
Remake: “Ex cape from Chi-town”


15 posted on 02/28/2017 1:30:12 PM PST by 9422WMR (President Trump, I like the sound of that!)
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To: detective

Sticking with my sidearm but have gone gangbanger with the higher capacity drum magazines...

16 posted on 02/28/2017 1:38:11 PM PST by Geronimo ( Trump, sump pump, bump...)
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To: detective

...but on tv and in the movies the gangs have had machineguns for years...


17 posted on 02/28/2017 1:43:37 PM PST by PLMerite
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To: Vaquero

Criminals control the vote count in Chicago. “Criminals” probably includes the entire city and county governments and most of the businesses in Cook County.


18 posted on 02/28/2017 1:55:08 PM PST by arthurus
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To: DCBryan1
Russian weapons and an American truck ... The barbarians are incapable of making the tools of civilization ... but they can use those tools to create misery and squalor.
19 posted on 02/28/2017 2:00:42 PM PST by NorthMountain (CNN is VERY Fake News)
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To: BlueDragon

Violent murders in Chicago are not seen as a problem by the Ruling Class. If a couple of their gated mansions is successfully penetrated, then we will see something like the National Guard going door to door or/and perhaps some major contracts with the upper class gangs- the Mafia- will be let. The NG would, of course, concentrate on taking guns from honest citizens “to keep them out of the hands of the gangs.”
The Mafia soldiers would find and hit the gang(s) that raided the mansions. It is escalating to local (for now) civil war and is probably being encouraged by Soros et al money.


20 posted on 02/28/2017 2:02:37 PM PST by arthurus
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