"Man, I ain't got nothing on these people. Even my @ss won't come back to Chicago."
Posted on 08/21/2017 1:17:57 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
More people were shot in Chicago over the weekend than on any other this year, except for the Fourth of July weekend that stretched four days, according to police and data kept by the Chicago Tribune.
At least 63 people were shot in the city, and eight of them were killed, police said. More than half of them were wounded over 13 hours from Saturday to early Sunday. At least 16 more people were shot through the day Sunday, including three on the same street in South Austin.
The level of violence exceeded the 52 shot on the three-day Memorial Day but fell short of the 102 hit by gunfire over the long Fourth of July weekend, according to Tribune data. Still, fewer people have been shot in Chicago this year than at this time last year: 2,435 compared to 2,710.
There have been at least 451 homicides this year, 16 fewer than this time last year, Tribune data show.
This weekend's shootings occurred across the city, from Rogers Park on the Far North Side, where a 32-year-old man was killed early Sunday, to West Pullman on the Far South Side, where seven people were shot outside a banquet hall a few hours later the same day.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
How many were shot by Confederate statues?
Here's an interesting point. When I was a school child in Chicago a long time ago, what I learned was that the first star represented "The Massacre at Fort Dearborn" in 1812. (The Potowatami Indians killed more than half of the people who lived in the fort, when they evacuated the fort). Somewhere along the line, the actual event got changed to just the Fort. Sounds like somebody re-wrote history here, but that could be just my narrow view.
Thank you...Being a poor, Tennessee Hillwilliam, I did not know that....
BTW, do you know the difference between a “hillbilly” and a “hillwilliam”????
The “hillwilliam” went to college...:^)
Obviously the current gun laws are not working so therefore they need more gun laws.
"Man, I ain't got nothing on these people. Even my @ss won't come back to Chicago."
Blacks killed by blacks....nothing to see here, move on.
This. is. just. one. city.
A total of ALL major and medium cities should be given once a week.
Nearly every person hit is considered attempted murder.
Now, food for thought. Do you think this would still be a problem if no one missed and every hit was a kill?
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