Posted on 04/07/2017 6:40:20 AM PDT by rellimpank
Aug. 31, 2016: A group of men get off of a bus at Chicago's Buckingham Fountain. They argue with a 22-year-old man on the sidewalk, and one of them shoots him in the thigh. He survives.
Sept. 3, 2016: Passengers on two buses parked by the Rock n' Roll McDonald's in River North taunt and threaten each other. Someone from one of the buses pulls out a gun and fires. No one is hurt.
March 12, 2017: People inside a bus outside a Dunkin' Donuts in Edgewater get into a shouting match with someone in a nearby SUV. There's an exchange of gunfire. Three people are shot, two die.
The common thread: The buses were party buses.
You've seen these barrooms-on-wheels. All too often they're obnoxiously loud and jammed with as many as 50 booze-addled revelers. At least the drunks aren't driving. Party on, Garth.
But firearms have no business on the buses. Booze and guns are a bad mix; booze, guns and a party on wheels is a tragedy in the making.
Since 2015, party buses in Chicago have been the scene of at least 11 shootings, three of them fatal. Something's wrong with this picture.
The city has tried to rein in party buses before. In September, the City Council passed an ordinance requiring party bus drivers to call police if someone on the bus throws a bottle out the window, smokes pot or fires a gun. That hasn't solved the problem.
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So it’s all the bus people. I see, so why don’t the cops just follow the busses into the ‘hoods and arrest the people. Dumbest thing I have ever read.
I’m still a fan of the mayor’s brilliant “take it in the alley, if you’re going to shoot someone” proposal.
Darwin theory.
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