Posted on 06/18/2023 1:12:30 PM PDT by PBRCat
New details have emerged about a shooting that left a man critically injured in River North on Saturday evening, a crime that one Chicago police detective said left “upwards of 50” shell casings in the street.
CPD issued a brief media statement after the shooting, saying a gunman walked up to the victim in the 300 block of West Erie around 6:36 p.m. and fired shots. The statement said that the gunman was later involved in a car crash, leading to his arrest.
Mayor Johnson has been totally silent about the bloodshed that has occurred this weekend.
He'll make a statement when it's done and the carnage is officially tallied.
Doesn’t Chicago have laws that require long guns be limited to 10 rounds per magazine, and handguns cannot have more than 15 rounds?
So, the perp must have had plenty of magazines and time to change them out when needed? Or maybe multiple guns. I assume he was transporting them according to applicable gun transport laws. Or, is it possible he disobeyed the gun laws and had large capacity magazines in his possession? Surely not! I would think the perp was diligent in obeying all gun laws when chasing down and shooting his victim. /s
Amish don’t abide by our laws.
This means everyone in Alabama is going to have to give up his/her BB guns.
Chicago makes me smile and sometimes even laugh out loud.
I live in an Arizona border county where I know the nearest law enforcement officer is at a minimum an hour away. We ain’t shootin & killin each other like them ‘unarmed’ folks in Chicago do. We live with human & drug smugglers every day and we ain’t even shooting them.
I can’t help but wonder if demographics has anything to do with it.
From Wikipedia:
“The racial makeup of the county was 76.7% White, 4.5% Black or African American, 1.2% Native American, 1.7% Asian, 0.3% Pacific Islander, 12.1% from other races, and 3.7% from two or more races. 30.7% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 25.4% reported speaking Spanish at home, while 1.3% speak German.”
Naa. It must be that we have better gun control.
I read once that, in Singapore, if a criminal fires a gun at another person during a crime then it is considered as murder. Simply missing one’s target does not change the intent, and the crime is murder, which then has the death penalty as a result.
Thanks for posting from CWB.
Not much REAL journalism in Chicago.
And what there is, is citizen journalism.
No natives there? There sure ain’t no tupelo gum trees.
How do you fire 50 rounds and not be successful?
Poor planning, basically lack of preparation.
drunk n crazy? The dope made him do it? Pist an broke?
Just a hunch but I doubt the shooter was thinking much about collateral damage. It’s the psychopath in them.
Photo appears to show a Draco AK pistol with a 30 round magazine.
That’s how we know it wasn’t John Wick.
Could have been one of his evil opponents, though. They seem to miss the target almost exclusively.
I have spent weeks visiting the Magnificent Mile. I haven’t been there for a number of years, now.
My favorite restaurant closed down on that Mile, due to COVID restrictions, in my humble opinion. I saw from afar as their website mentioned they were closing, and had closed. The site was kept up for about a year after it closed, then it disappeared, along with my desire to revisit the city.
It was a wonderful place to visit, but everything has gone downhill so far, that I figure Chicago is really just eight years behind San Francisco, on the destitute scale.
As someone else said, “If you give a conservative a pile of bricks, they make a city. If you give a liberal a city, they tear it down to bricks.”
wow, sorry to see the decline.
I lived in Chicago many years ago. I recall the Magnificent Mile and Water Tower Place as being home to luxury retail. Definitely an upscale part of town at that time.
> How do you fire 50 rounds and not be successful?
Always hold the pistol sideways when firing. It looks cool.
Wow.. 50 foot shots are pretty big!
It seems to me that Chicago doesn't have a Mayor. The
person currently occupying the office of Mayor is only
only posing as mayor of Chicago. He's only in the position
of Mayor to get what he can from the office while
pretending to be acting as a mayor. Just like the
the previous freak-zoid before him.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.