Posted on 08/10/2020 10:47:28 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) rejected calls for federal HOPE response to the looting and violence overnight in Chicago, opting instead to push for more gun control.
A reporter asked Mayor Lightfoot about Illinois House Republican Jim Durkins calls for the National Guard and others to step in and restore order. She responded by making clear she does not want federal troops in Chicago. Rather, she wants more gun control.
Lightfoot called for common sense gun control, saying, We cannot continue to have circumstances where anybody and their brother can go across the border, or into other parts of Illinois, and bring illegal guns into the city of Chicago.
Breitbart News reported that rioters and looters took to the streets of downtown Chicago hours after a 20-year-old man was shot and wounded by police in Chicagos Englewood neighborhood on Sunday afternoon.
Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown described the 20-year-old as an armed male who allegedly pointed a gun at officers and shot at officers first.
Police returned fire and wounded the suspect, and he was hospitalized thereafter.
Brown indicated that calls for looting in downtown Chicago were issued via social media in reaction to the shooting, and he sent 400 officers into downtown. But Breitbart News reported looting and violence still took place, and this included gunfire and violence against police.
WGN-TV anchorman Dan Ponce tweeted video of one scene of destruction Chicago residents awoke to Monday morning:
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> A reporter asked Mayor Lightfoot about Illinois House Republican Jim Durkins calls for the National Guard and others to step in and restore order. She responded by making clear she does not want federal troops in Chicago. <
Federal troops? I wonder if she knows that the National Guard is normally controlled by state governors. Probably not.
How does gun control stop the rioting and looting you stupid twit?
The stores werent SHOT.
The stores werent held up.
The rioters came en masse and destroyed the city with their bare hands.
RESIGN NOW!!!
WGN mouthpiece Dan Ponce along with his far left wing Father, Phil Ponce are bought and paid for by the Democrat Machine. There is an equally leftist and talentless Son, Anthony Ponce also in the Chicago “news” business. The Ponce Brothers continue to call the criminals “Protestors”
An armed citizenry could stop someone driving a car into a store front, but gun control can do nothing to stop it. How about car control, only allow licensed drivers to steal cars and drive them into store fronts.
When hundreds of criminals lightfoot
and rob local businesses,
the businesses (if the owners live)
will leave, ending TAXES, ending opportunity.
Another half brained fishface mayor knew that
before she allowed Chicago
to become a place of violence like no other.
Gun control keeps guns out of the hands of criminals about as well as the 5-second rule prevents germs getting on your food.
I am Groot!
Criminals do not obey laws.
That’s what makes them criminals.
Gun control laws only disarm the citizens which emboldens the criminals.
I think you're in the wrong decade, Mayor.
Guns are Rioting and Looting ?
The rest of the week looks good for lootin', shootin' & burnin', though.
A balmy 70 degrees for the low at night for the next four days, and no rain.
Mayor Groot should stock up on fixins for S'Mores...
Good glass on ARs makes good gun control.
If guns were the problem, those "other parts of Illinois" would have the same murder rate that you do. The fact that they don't, in spite of their easier access to guns, means that it is a BEHAVIOR problem.
John Roberts ruled that governors, less politicians and unelected bureaucrats may "cancel" the First Amendment ... what makes us confident Roberts won't do this with the Second? After all, a weakened electorate is an unquestionning electorate.
Incompetent? You do know that shes both black and lesbian, dont you?
I saw that video...I figured that car had to be stolen also...Who would do that to their own car??? But....Who knows what these ferals will do???
Mayor Groot needs to double up her face diaper - there’s stuff leaking out around it...
I guess she forgot that Chicago is one of the most “gun control laws” city that there is. The only way for more is to have the police conduct a search of every person and building in the city limits and seizure of what they find. The gang bangers might resist, especially since they out number the police 2 or 3 to 1.
Don’t forget the ten ring.
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