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My prediction here is that it will soon become abundantly clear to the residents of the city of Chicago that the elitists who run their city will be willing to allow many of their innocent worker ants to be killed in these new 'mob swarm' style attacks in order to prevent something worse from happening which will be regarded by them as only exacerbating the situation and amplifying the problem: Namely, armed self-defense as outlined in 'McDonald vs. the City of Chicago'.

The political officers in charge of Chicago can accept several dozen innocent citizens being killed. Their deaths are explainable, and even the blame can be shifted elsewhere. Their deaths even provide an opportunity for politicians to pose as crime fighting heroes with a bunch of tough talk. There's just no downside to deaths of citizens if you have a competent political spin machine. At worst, all that's required will be to apologize to a bunch of liberals who voted for you anyway and will continue to do so. What else can they do?

What the big city politicians can't risk is any of these violent flash mob thugs picking the wrong target and getting a stomach full of lead: Nobody at the city leadership level needs a new anti-hero like Bernie Goetz, heightened hostility from the urban criminals, and a bunch of inner city ministers denouncing violence using that annoying preacher schtick, not to mention wailing mommas lamenting the deaths of their babies. The national scrutiny of big cities by a divided American public and weeks upon weeks of a vigilante's trial will be too damaging and capture all the news cycles: Nancy Grace, Joy Behar, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, MSNBC, FOX News... Oh, HELL no. Please, anything but our fair city being turned into America's next pop culture public spectacle.

It's so much easier to just let the innocent citizens get killed, pretend to be mortified over it, and then it's all forgotten a week later. There's really no newspapers to rake any politician over the coals anymore, and what left wing journalists remain will just blame the NRA anyway even if the innocent victims are stabbed with a kitchen knife. In fact, you can even call the last fleeing taxpayers a bunch of racists for moving out of the city to escape the violence.

It's going to be a long hot summer, starting yesterday.

You make good points, but I'm puzzled by you're "pretend to be mortified by it" remark? Who? Who pretends to be mortified? I haven't seen anyone treat this as anything but a mysterious phenomonon that we're not even really sure actually exists.

It's like Morgellon's disease.

"There are scattered reports of this strange manifestation; not everyone even agrees that it exists, it may be a case of mass hysteria, propagated by the mass media. More research is needed before anyone can say anything for sure, but for now, authorities are cautioning the public to remain calm and let the investigative process take its course."

Yada yada.

Remember that flash attack that happened at the Iowa State Fair last August? "Beat Whitey Night?" Have you heard anything about that since?

Another mystery. Research is being conducted. Right.