Posted on 07/06/2024 6:16:12 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
The Fourth of July historically is one of the nation’s deadliest days of the year. A flurry of shootings around the holiday a year ago left more than a dozen people dead and over 60 wounded. And a year before that, seven people died in a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade near Chicago.
Violence and mass shootings often increase in the summer months, with more people gathering for social events, teens out of school and hotter temperatures. Chicago ‘in state of grief’
In Chicago alone, 11 people had been killed and 55 wounded in shootings as of Friday morning during the extended July Fourth weekend, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The violence included a mass shooting on Thursday that killed two women and an 8-year-old boy.
The recent violence “has left our city in a state of grief,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said.
A community rally was planned for Friday evening, and the city will beef up police presence over the weekend, Johnson said in a statement.
“We are devastated by the recent violence that has left our city in a state of grief and we extend our heartfelt condolences to the families and communities impacted by these recent events,” Johnson said.
Eight people were wounded in Chicago’s Little Italy neighborhood shortly after midnight Friday. About 90 minutes later, a shooting in the city’s Austin neighborhood injured six. Police said preliminary findings suggest the separate shootings involved an exchange of gunfire between two people who then fled.
Recent violence at a popular Lake Michigan beach in Chicago prompted officials to close it early each night through the holiday weekend as a precaution. The 31st Street Beach has been the scene of recent stabbings and shootings.
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Let's Go, Brandon!
State of anarchy, more like
Would it make you feel better, little girl, if they was pushed out of windows?
Is that you, Archie?
🤔
And there's not a Republican around to blame when you need one.
The. Only solution is more gun laws which the crim8nals will continue to ignore. /s
This is worse than Mogadishu or Aleppo. And the mayor still blames RW extremists while his own party is destroying the city.
“Daddy 10,000 people a year are killed by handguns!’’
Solution, raise taxes
I saw a video of a guy getting his hand blown up by the biggest mortar I have ever seen.
Come to think of it... anyone seen DoodleBob? I told him the instructions were on the back...
I saw video of a sea of people on Broadway in Nashville. Hundreds of thousands packed in tight. No shooting, no fighting, just people enjoying the festivities. One thing was conspicuously apparent from the video.
11 of the 33 killings are in Chicago! So what other hellholes have the other 22?
Chicago is MAGA country!
Just black yutes acting like, well, black yutes. Nothing to see...
A community rally
Not news worthy story
“Chicago ‘in state of grief,’ mayor says”
If only they had some political control and could do something about this. Alas, it’s out of their hands.
Two more days/nights to go.
I remember that! Lots of TV shows became anti-gun after the murder of Bobby Kennedy by a PALESTINIAN IMMIGRANT and the anti-gun hysteria that followed!
After 1968 Hollywood went anti-gun. Many of the TV shows constantly had anti-gun propaganda in their shows. Some I remember are...
Hawaii 5-0
The New People
Quinsy M.E. (We have to stop “IT” before “IT” kills again!) a reference to a pistol
Heck Ramsey
Streets of San Francisco
McCloud
A Gun In The House (TV movie)
Family Ties
All In The Family
Revenge for a Rape TV movie.
There were many, many more.
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