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Half of Those Under 40 Have Witnessed a Shooting in Chicago at an Average Age of 14 Years Old
PJ Media ^ | 05/10/2023 | Greg Byrnes

Posted on 05/10/2023 7:50:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

It is sick out there and getting sicker. Chicagoans are living in a war zone. Over half the population has witnessed a shooting by age 40. The average age of the witnesses is 14. The average age for being shot is 17.

Of those young people who were surveyed, 7% of blacks, 7% of Hispanics, and 3% of whites were themselves shot. This indicates that while so-called “black-on-black” crime may be at a higher level, a pathological percentage of young people are being subjected to the hail of bullets that has become a way of life in the Windy City.

The data is drawn from a long-term study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Open Source. The team was led by a criminologist from Cambridge University along with researchers from Harvard and Oxford. The study began 25 years ago, and the sample size is about 2,000 young people.

The racial and sexual breakdown of violence in this once great “Second City” of the United States matches familiar patterns in law enforcement. Women are less likely than men to have seen the violence, with 43% of women and 58% of men having witnessed shootings. If you break the numbers down by race, 56% of lacks and Hispanics and 25% of whites are likely to have witnessed at least one gunshot incident.

“We expected levels of exposure to gun violence to be high, but not this high. Our findings are frankly startling and disturbing,” said Dr. Charles Lanfear of the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Criminology. “A substantial portion of Chicago’s population could be living with trauma as a result of witnessing shootings and homicides, often at a very young age.”

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1 posted on 05/10/2023 7:50:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder what results you would get if you were to conduct the same survey in Montana or the Dakotas or Vermont or Maine or New Hampshire?


2 posted on 05/10/2023 7:53:21 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: SeekAndFind

but gun control.


3 posted on 05/10/2023 7:54:35 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: SeekAndFind

4 posted on 05/10/2023 7:57:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Half of those in Chicago have witnessed a shooting...

And 85% of people in Chicago have voted for Democrats all their lives, however short they may be.

5 posted on 05/10/2023 7:57:46 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: OttawaFreeper

I’ve always thought the movie Death Wish with Bruce Willis was a pretty accurate depiction of how Chicago really is.

Thugs preying on the innocent is the order of the day.


6 posted on 05/10/2023 7:58:37 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: SeekAndFind

SO WHAT! Let them kill themselves, Exploit it, Put it on YouTube, online betting. Make it a weekly family event of watching minority yutes practicing self extinction...


7 posted on 05/10/2023 7:59:25 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: SeekAndFind
Hey Jackass!!!
8 posted on 05/10/2023 7:59:39 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: OttawaFreeper

It’s not only Chicago. I was a PepsiCo delivery guy in the ghettos of Cincinnati for 15 years, actually in the jungle 30 hours a week. I witnessed two fatal shootings. I saw or heard many other exchanges taking place.


9 posted on 05/10/2023 8:00:34 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m not interested in their statistics if their only solution is “gun control”.

Whenever the black community decides to turn back to The True God of the Bible and get their house in order, then I’ll care.


10 posted on 05/10/2023 8:13:51 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: SeekAndFind

11 posted on 05/10/2023 8:15:06 AM PDT by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, LGBTQs, RINOs, Islamonazis, Marxists, Commucrats: It's a Godlessness disorder!)
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To: Perseverando

Looking at that chart it appears we need to ban blacks from having guns


12 posted on 05/10/2023 8:40:30 AM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Meanwhile, the bulldagger lame duck (sp?) mayor continues to try to blame immigrants sent from Texas.

13 posted on 05/10/2023 8:41:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: SeekAndFind

that’s a ridiculous stat...they may have heard of one...but witness...?????


14 posted on 05/10/2023 10:08:05 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: OttawaFreeper
I wonder what results you would get if you were to conduct the same survey in Montana or the Dakotas....

Probably higher....


15 posted on 05/12/2023 9:43:54 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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