May was a bloody month in Chicago - 66 dead and nearly 400 shot

LA Times ^ | June 1, 2016 | Alexandra Chachkevitch and Rosemary Regina Sobol

[Zakeet]

The month's toll was fueled by a Memorial Day weekend in which six people were killed and 63 wounded, and a Mother's Day weekend when more than 50 people were shot, eight fatally. That brought the total number of people shot in Chicago so far this year to more than 1,500. At least 250 of them have died.

[Snip]

Chicago police say the violence has been stoked by gang conflicts and a proliferation of guns, mixed with weak gun law enforcement.

[Joe 6-pack]

Juneteenth is just around the corner.

[Mr. Mojo]

The most effective way to deal with this scourge is to cut off the welfare freebies.

Relationship between the welfare state and crime

[MinorityRepublican]

It’s clear that America doesn’t care about “no go zones” in inner cities. Even if innocents end up getting killed.

[MinorityRepublican]

The Welfare State is the reason for all the bloodshed in inner cities. But we could end Welfare State today and it wouldn’t make a dent on the crime rate.

[Mr. Mojo]

Initially, no. But over time, yes.

[MinorityRepublican]

War on Drugs. What else is an unemployable young black male is gonna do for a living?

[from occupied ga]

We need drones and house to house with combat troops

You Betcha! And camps to put those people the regime doesn't like in. Maybe with showers and mottos like "Work makes you free" Because I guarantee you one thing: those troops would be going house to house confiscating firearms and hauling off any white males to the aforementioned camps. Or maybe you were being sarcastic?

[cherry]

I would be in favor of constant patrols with profiling of every black male....

now you know that would never fly...

it would catch a couple thousand guns and prevent a lot of shooting and killing, but you know, it would never fly for the obvious reasons.

[GOPJ]

I do not understand the abandonment of these innocent lives!! Children being shot in their beds with drive bys. Why are these gangs not “TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS”?

"Gangs and Politicians in Chicago: An Unholy Alliance" LAWBREAKERS, LAWMAKERS: In some parts of Chicago, violent street gangs and pols quietly trade money and favors for mutual gain. The thugs flourish, the elected officials thrive—and you lose. A special report. (more at link) By David Bernstein and Noah Isackson http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/January-2012/Gangs-and-Politicians-An-Unholy-Alliance/

[Carriage Hill]

The Cook County Justice Legal System all have 360° sprinning heads like Linda Blair's in The Exorcist, and have since my Family lived there in the 50s & 60s. One of the most corrupt/criminal cities in the US.

[DAC21]

If anyone had any guts they would call in 20000 Cops, FBI, National guard...... get a blanket search warrant and seal off the South-side at 2:00 AM on a Tuesday. No one leaves (declare Marshall law if need be) their home, search it top to bottom, bring in the sniffer dogs. Round up the dope, guns and hoodlums. Rinse and repeat.

[from occupied ga]

And still, there are Liberal Socialist DemoRat thugs left in Chicago

They need better weapons

[WENDLE]

I am so sick of this. This is NOT BlacK America!! Many of these gangs are illegal aliens. I am sick of it. Trump is our last hope. We must stop this slaughter of innocent Black Americans NOW!!~ The Democrats don’t give a crap!!

[exit82]

85 years of Dem rule and some of the toughest guns laws in the nation.

So, libs, what went wrong?

[PGalt]

Collateral damage for a socialist gun-grabbing agenda. Never let a created crisis go to waste.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13BahrdkMU8

Solve the crime. Prison for the perps.

[Churchillspirit]

Caught a bit of “The Five” on FOX today.....Dana Perino was saying that she was taught at Journalism school - if it happens on a regular basis, it isn’t news.

[Eagles6]

"The month's toll was fueled by a Memorial Day weekend

How does a holiday honoring those that have given their lives for our freedom "fuel" tribal warfare?

[Let's Roll]

It’s a good thing guns are illegal in Chicago.

[TXnMA]

Anyone know what our combat casualties for May in Afghanistan were?

[TXnMA]

1: Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
2: The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
3: And bathed every veyne in swich licour
4: Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
5: Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
6: Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
7: Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
8: Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
9: And smale foweles maken melodye,
10: That slepen al the nyght with open ye
11: (so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
12: Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages..."