Posted on 07/05/2024 3:34:42 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
CHICAGO -- At least 56 people have been shot, 11 fatally, in gun violence across Chicago so far this weekend, police said.
The shootings happened across the city since 6 p.m. Wednesday, during the extended July 4th holiday weekend.
The violence includes three mass shootings, one in which two women and an 8-year-old boy were killed and two young boys were left in critical condition after multiple shooters opened fire into a Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood home on the South Side.
At least 43 shot, 6 fatally, in Chicago in less than 12 hours.
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The mayor said he had a summer safety plan to avoid these shootings.
Biden lost a few backers!
And it isn’t even Saturday yet.
If only Illinois had effective gun safety laws…..
Since when did “weekend” not include Saturday and Sunday?
So far THIS WEEKEND!!! It’s Friday!
They’re gearing up for the convention.
Obama said midnight basketball would solve all of this. They’re shooting something other than hoops here.
Not fair if the number of holiday days changes from one to another. People call the days before July 4th and definitely the ones after it “the holiday.” Who really goes back to work 8 am Friday, July 5th? Chicago medical examiners and cops.
But Easter for example is one day.
Good idea. Families mourning the slain will feel better now.
Liberals will whine and complain. And they will demand more gun laws. But these laws won’t have much impact. Just like laws against alcohol didn’t have much impact during Prohibition.
Trump has the answer. Bring industry back to America. Give urban blacks (and everyone else) access to good, high-paying factory jobs.
As it is now, urban blacks have nothing. And idle hands are the devil’s workshop. Democrats prefer it that way.
Chicago is more dangerous than Gaza City or Kabul.
If only there was common sense gun control.
Didn’t Chicago run out of people to kill a long time ago? The people being shot recently must be the ‘imports’ from other countries coming across the borders. Democrats sure know how to keep replenishing the bodies for their crime-filled cities.
RE: Midnight basketball.
The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (one liked by the Beatles, Donovan, Jerry Seinfeld , Tom Hanks and Mick Jagger) had a big plan for basketball and other sports and entertainment to be set up in cities all over the country. Wanted to build playgrounds, donate equipment and have movies and concerts with stages——to keep youths out of crime and drug trouble.
His chief aide said: “This plan is going to cost a fortune. Where is the money going to come from”
Maharishi: “From wherever it is now.”
Chicago never disappoints. Trump offered Federal help at one point. Chicago said...forget it.
they are improving on target acquisition and control
This infuriates me. One important thing that could help these people is to enforce law and increase law enforcement levels and capabilities.
And the scumbags who profess to be on their side are the people who have actively discouraged that. Worse, they have not only discouraged it, they have demonized it, defunded it, and even openly litigated against any law enforcement personnel who actually tried to enforce the law.
If one examines this dispassionately, the only conclusion that can be reached is that this bloodshed is wholly deliberate on the part of people running things.
As if they deliberately want to start a racial war. Well, it is true that some of them do, being the Alinskyites they are.
Leftists, on the whole, are the most egregious racists that exist.
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