Posted on 11/02/2016 4:09:45 PM PDT by Lorianne
According to the Chicago Tribune, of the 17 victims from this weekend's violence, 7 of them were under the age of 20, with the youngest victim being only 14.
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The weekend toll also was deadlier than the three long summer holiday weekends when violence typically spikes because of the warm weather. Six people were fatally shot over the Memorial Day weekend, five over the Fourth of July weekend and 13 people over Labor Day weekend, according to Tribune data.
This past weekend there were shootings in every area of the city but the Far North and Northwest sides, according to police. Of the 17 people who were killed, seven were younger than 20.
The youngest was 14-year-old Demarco Webster Jr., described by his grade school principal as one of her best students. Demarco had planned to run for student council and try out for basketball, and he was being recruited for an NAACP leadership program.
A little more than 24 hours later, 17-year-old twins Edward and Edwin Bryant were killed in an apparent drive-by shooting in Old Town. Police responding to calls about gunfire found one of the boys lying on the sidewalk in the 400 block of West Evergreen Avenue and another around the corner in the 1300 block of North Hudson Avenue.
"The two brothers, as far as we can tell, they didn't have any documented gang affiliation," said Johnson, who noted police recovered video of the shooting. "But the individuals they were with did." ::
While journalists suggested that the police department was caught off guard by gang violence linked to large crowds around Wrigley Field, police Superintendent Eddie Johnson insists that extra resources were deployed to the most dangerous neighborhoods around Chicago.
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Without gun control think how bad it would have been!
ROTF LMBO
Gun control only serves to disarm the law obeying public.
DUH! Who knew?
Wanna bet an 8th grader can connect the dots?
More police and gun laws are not the answer. People have to want to respect the rights of others.
The children need families to teach them right from wrong.
The Cubs better win tonight or it will be a bloodbath
But some guy had a deplorable T-shirt at a Clinton rally.
Using Common Core math, how long before the town goes extinct?
I’ll just bet MLK Jr Ave runs right through the middle of it.
(Oops, was that racissss?)
I wish that these lives mattered to someone.
Still have a long way to go to clean that shit hole up.
I’d bet money on that, too.
Not happening where Farrakhan, Obama, Bill Ayers, Rahm Emanuel and the rest of the city-wrecking Marxist-Democrats lives.
They are not stupid. They got the money, great homes and armed guards. It’s Miller time!
It will. be a blood bath either way with these crackheads
Hope and Change! Thanks Bath House!
Allowing Alpha cops having reasonable suspicion to stop and frisk gangsta thugs with baggy pants hanging off their hip bones for illegal gats would be a good start.
You have a legal gun and carry permit? No problem.
Like recidivist illegal aliens, give violators real jail sentences. This is the `gun control’ the left should be talking about.
Yeah, I know, that makes me a jackbooted thug. But we’re either serious about stopping murders in Chiraq, Baltimore, etc., or we aren’t, so you `libertarians’ can go pi** up a rope. Law and order. Go Trump!
The crime a given area has is usually due to the number of available criminals, not the number of guns or gun laws.
I’m struck by how many of these victims are struck down while out on the sidewalk or in a parked car. It’s as if they are completely unaware that they are at risk of being killed. Bizarre.
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