Posted on 10/08/2017 4:21:45 PM PDT by 11th_VA
A man shot dead Friday evening was the 500th person to be killed in city gun violence since the start of the year during a weekend in which three people have been killed and at least 19 others wounded in Chicago shootings.
The city reached 500 shooting homicides about a week later than it did last year, on Sept. 29, 2016, according to data maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times. At this point last year, there had been 511 people shot to death.
In all, 537 deaths have been ruled homicides in the city since the start of this year, according to Sun-Times data.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
The Obama years were really tough for my family and our small business. We had already been struggling since the Democrats took Congress in 2006, and then the bottom fell out with the arrival of the community organizer.
It took us five long years of scraping and clawing to dig ourselves out of that hole. In the end, we survived in spite of the bastard.
No, but the perp gets the Outstanding Ghetto Citizen Award....
Black youth gang members killing other black youth gang members.
No one gives a shit.
For liberals, 500 dead is fine as long as it happens over time and not at once. If 58 perish in a short period, that is a tragedy and must be used to further their political goals.
What was Statlin quoted as saying? ‘A single death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.’
JoMa
I’m about 60%.
The media is “boycotting” this tragedy. Too busy trashing Trump non stop to interfere with real news.
“Slow weekend”
Can’t you just feel the love pulsing through Emanuel’s city?
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