Posted on 08/24/2020 12:48:18 PM PDT by knighthawk
At least 60 people were shot, five fatally, over the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoots (D) Chicago.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that by Monday morning, the number of shooting victims reached 66, with five deaths.
On August 23, 2020, Breitbart News reported 24 had been shot in Chicago, Friday through Saturday evening alone. Three of the victims succumbed to their wounds. Those three victims were all killed early Saturday morning in separate shooting incidents.
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It seems the town is one giant shooting range......60 hits on dynamic moving targets; not bad for a weekend in Chi-town.
She is safe on her block where her home is....thanks to ordering the police to patrol the area.
At least her street is secure!
They are such poor shooters because they hold their pistols sideways.
Give some credit to the hospitals. Chicago has some excellent trauma centers skilled in gunshot wounds. Last year in Chicago there were “only”490” deaths. In 2010 we lost 498 in Afghanistan, Chicago only 437, down from 460 in 09. The only year murders in Chicago was less than our deaths in Afghanistan. Most years it’s not close.
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