Posted on 07/08/2022 7:41:44 AM PDT by PBRCat
On the same day of the mass shooting in Highland Park, five people in Chicago were injured by gunfire and another died. Over the long weekend, Chicago saw 68 people shot and eight killed.
The Chicago violence, down by 14 percent from a year ago. according to the city's police chief, drew passing attention while the governor of Illinois and vice president converged on Highland Park to offer condolences and raise their voices about how “enough is enough.” Even the pope offered prayers.
Highland Park isn't experienced with such violence. Not a single murder was logged between 2000 and 2020, according to FBI crime stats, and other violent crime was a fraction of what it is in the rest of the state, The New York Times reported.
But the attention paid to the mostly white suburban town hasn’t been lost on some residents on Chicago’s South and West sides, where the brunt of the city’s violence occurs.
State Sen. Elgie Sims Jr., who carried much of the criminal justice reform measures that lawmakers passed last year, said interns in his office and seniors he visited yesterday have spoken out about the disproportionate attention.
“A woman pulled me aside to say, ‘I appreciate the work you do on gun violence, but when violence happens in our community, where’s the outpouring of support? Where are the national leaders when it happens in my community?’” Sims told Playbook.
“It’s a reasonable question,” said Sims, who has worked with fellow Democratic lawmakers to call out systemic racism in the justice system.
“It’s not to diminish the pain in Highland Park. What happened is horrible and horrific,” he said, “But it’s also horrible when it happens on the South and West sides.”
Blame the guns, NOT THE PEOPLE. Democrazy STUPIDITY IN ACTION. Where’s the “common sense” the RATS keep telling us about?
Well, the violence is kinda routine, too. Whites don’t shoot each other (or anyone else) at the rate blacks do.
Dealing dope is not protected by the Bill of Rights and therefore would be much easier to eliminate than a right protected by the Bill of Rights.
So just end dope dealing and all of the criminal acts that go along with it will be gone.
The first rule of problem solving is that the true root cause of the problem must be identified. The root cause of violent homicides is not the gun, it is the criminal. So eliminate criminal activity and the homicide problem is resolved.
See how easy it is? Just do it.
The Governor and VP must be racist since they were only concerned with the white deaths and not the black deaths in Chicago.
Enough is enough- ARM the populace so we can defend ourselves! And stop restricting our right to self defence!
Those areas are good for racking up numbers. Better not to look too closely, though, lest an inconvenient truth emerge.
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