Posted on 08/19/2020 7:10:14 AM PDT by rktman
Five people were killed and 46 others were injured in Chicago violence last weekend, according to ABC 7, as widespread looting continued in the downtown area. Included in the injured were 6 teenagers and a 12 year boy who is the son of a Chicago firefighter.
In an interview on MSNBC this week to talk about the rampant violence in her city, Mayor Lori Lightfoot sought to cast blame elsewhere.
Sixty percent of the illegal guns that come into Chicago every year are from out of state, from Indiana, from Mississippi, from other states that have lax gun laws, she stated.
Yall Politics asked Governor Tate Reeves (R) for his response to Chicago Mayor Lightfoots comments.
This ridiculous conspiracy theory from the Chicago mayorthat Mississippians are to blame for the violence in her own cityis bizarre and pathetic, Governor Reeves said. No serious person could think that murders are out of control and people are burning police cars in Chicago because of Mississippis commitment to the constitution.
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Once again a reference to ‘gun violence’ as opposed to ‘thug violence’, or to use a less pejorative term human violence. Now if large numbers of thugs are coming up from Mississippi and creating mayhem, I can see the mayor’s point. Is that the case? I thought not.
So, mayor dipsh!t, why isn’t gun violence out of control in Mississippi?
If the problem really is lax gun laws in Mississippi, then why isnt gun viience even more prevalent in Mississippi than it is in Chicago? Where are all the murders in Jackson, Tupelo, and Biloxi?
That is the “Way of the Rat”:
blame others for things you did or didn’t do. . . congenital liars, ALL of them.
That could be part of the problem.
The entire premise of their ideology is that no one is responsible for *anything*.
Everything is caused by gigantic social forces, which they are the only ones wise enough to see and guide.
Is that what happens, Mayor Lightheaded? 😋
But, the approach has to have a buy-in by the political leadership, including the police.
If you do not maintain it, the violence returns to the old status-quo.
The current BLM ideology directly increases the violence and prevents Kennedy's targeted approach from being used.
It isn't just putting people in jail. They just get replaced.
It is making the police response understood and reliable.
It is building trust in the violent neighborhoods that the police will do what they say they will do, especially when they say they will arrest people and lock them up.
It is impossible to do that with a prosecutor like Kim Foxx.
Groot is an incompetent buffoon. Going to turn Chicago back into a dump that I grew up in during the 70s and 80s.
Chicago can only blame Chicago for their gun violence problem. The democrats have been in control there for a long, long time. They have done nothing but pass useless gun control measures. They must stop trying to blame everybody else for their problem and start doing something positive. All across this country, in cities where they have been in control, there are serious problems and they keep trying to blame someone else.
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