Posted on 07/17/2014 6:08:43 AM PDT by rellimpank
Two weeks after Chicago's rampant gun violence shot back into the national spotlight with a bloody Fourth of July weekend, federal authorities are scheduled to announce Thursday that seven new ATF agents are being deployed to the city to try to help stem the violence.
By year end, the move will boost to 52 the number of agents in the Chicago office of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which traditionally has worked closely with Chicago police on tracing the flow of guns into the city and tracking guns used in crimes.
In a separate action, the FBI recently reassigned 20 more agents for the summer to its violent crime unit in Chicago, putting about 120 FBI agents in all on the frontline of the high-profile fight against gangs and guns.
“The Department of Justice will continue to do everything in its power to help the city of Chicago combat gun violence,” U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement. “These new agents are a sign of the federal government's ongoing commitment to helping local leaders ensure Chicago's streets are safe.”
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Run around and fill out paperwork as the local coroner fills the body bags. THAT’LL help! /s
-—and from Chicago’s other fish wrap-—
Maybe they can harass the one gun shop owner in Chicago until they force him out of business and that will stop the criminals in Chicago.
“tracing the flow of guns into the city and tracking guns used in crimes”
Political correctness absolutely guarantees that the real problems will not even be considered. The blindness mandated by radical extremism will only feed the cancer.
"The scariest sentence in the English language is, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help you.'"
--U.S. President Ronald Reagan
Talk about a "P" in the pool!
I wonder if they’re bringing their super duty flame-thrower tanks and their crack team of wife-killing snipers too? They could burn the whole city down and just start over...oh wait...that’s Detroit....LOL.
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Illustrating Chicago values.
:: the federal government’s ongoing commitment to helping local leaders ensure Chicago’s streets are safe ::
I don’t care who you are, that *right there* is funny.
Yes it is. If it is possible to make the Chicago situation worse, the feds are the ones to do it.
Look for murders to triple in Chicago.
Somehow, smaller cities with “different demographics” can have a much, MUCH higher gun ownership rate and have little if any “gun violence”.
I wonder what’s different about Chicago?
If they want to reduce gun violence in Chicago they simply need to organize a massive, well trained, GANG task force and pursue and prosecute and incarcerate every gang member in Chicago ruthlessly.
If police, community members, politicians, DAs, judges and parole boards got serious about going after gangs, the violence in Chicago could be cut in half in a couple of months and by 75% in a year.
Sadly, it will never happen. Instead they will harass law abiding gun owners and gun shops.
The Chicago ‘powers that be’ need to talk to Detroit Police Chief James Craig... he’ll tell them how it’s done...
Chicago has a huge problem with youth gangs. And these gangs are full of ghetto culture attitudes. Such as settling all slights, real and imagined, with violence.
Yes, the demographics of various cities, unfortunately, seem to be a strong predictor of what sorts of problems those cities have.
There does NOT seem to be a connection between strict guns laws in various cities, and their gun violence rates. If anything, some places such as Chicago have an inverse relationship of those factors.
I DO have THE solution to their “gun violence” problem,
and it has nothing to do with guns.
Here it is... it’s pretty simple, actually...
Ready for it?
Women, require the men to marry you before you have sex with them.
Many, many, many problems solved with that solution.
They will take guns from honest, law-abiding, non-violent people while deliberately leaving them in the hands of violent criminals.
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