Posted on 10/26/2018 6:29:37 AM PDT by rellimpank
Devereaux Peters
I live in Chicago, not “Chiraq.” Chicago is my city, and I love it. Calling it Chiraq is an insulting, misguided attempt to describe and to cast blame for the gun violence that plagues us. Instead of constantly trying to use my city as a scapegoat when violence occurs, we need to recognize that gun violence is a national issue and not just a local one.
As a kid, I developed my professional grit playing basketball at the South Side and Austin YMCA. I watched the sun rise every morning while driving up Lake Shore Drive on my way to school in Oak Park. Chicago is a work of art, from Harold’s Chicken to the Frank Lloyd Wright houses. When I bought my first home, there was never a question that it would not be in South Shore.
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Fake news, there are a lots of strict gun laws. The Criminal laws are the weak link.
Doesn’t Chicago already have some of the strictest gun control laws you dumba$$ ???
(not you rellimpank-the author)
We already have a strong Federal Law that is being ignored - it's against the law TO KILL SOMEONE !
What other law can top that one ? So it's obvious that the real goal is to get rid of guns all together.
He’s referring to the west side neighborhood of Austin, not the Texan bastion of liberalism. It borders Oak Park, and is a war zone.
Back to public punishments:
Canings for property crimes.
Stocks for mid level crimes.
Hangings for murder, torture, kidnapping, child sexual abuse. Those above get to watch.
Do this every Saturday at noon in town squares all over America.
Criminal’s photos on a perp website.
No perks in jails or prisons. Back to chain gangs.
Basketball been belly belly good to me.
If you live even near Chicago, run, run now! Get the hell out of there you idiot!
—yeah——they are right up there with people who pantomime in front of a blue screen as far as being “experts” on everything—
By similar logic, only women wearing burkas will end rape...
The “strong federal law” that would do the most towards eliminating violent crime would be one to outlaw the DemocRat Party.
“The answers for Chicago, Florence, Sutherland Springs, and the rest of the country will come with federal legislation that requires universal background checks, that bans assault rifles and high capacity magazines, targets gun trafficking across state lines, and disarms all domestic abusers.”
And the government will do just as good a job keeping illegal guns from flooding across our borders as they did keeping out booze during Prohibition, and keeping out illegal drugs and illegal aliens
You don’t aim a loaded gun at another human being unless that’s your last, best hope to preserve your life or someone else’s.
When we all seemed to understand that principle gun violence was a tiny fraction of what it is now.
He’s right, but not in the way he thinks.
Most murders are committed by people who already have a criminal history. You reduce murders by taking chronic criminals off the street.
The measure of gun control "working" is the total murder rate. Gun control does not work in China. Gun control does not work anywhere. The number of guns in a society has no relationship to murder rates.
Roughly 60% of gun deaths are suicide leaving roughly 12000 gun deaths for other reasons; negligent discharge, self defense, murder, etc. The urban sections of just 5 major US cities that have been run by democratic for the past 40 years account for approximately 40% of these deaths. SO IT IS NOT A NATIONAL PROBLEM.
“we need to recognize that gun violence is a national issue and not just a local one.”
It’s not a problem where I live. Therefore this is not a national problem.
The inner city needs to be patient. With all the feel good liberal programs we just need to give them another 3 or 4 generations and it will all come together.
Turn the country into one giant Leftist government run prison.
That’s the last thing they want, we wouldn’t need them or big government.
He’s almost poetic for a spineless, jellyfish, soy-boy.
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