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After Violent Weekend, Emanuel Says Stronger Gun Laws Needed
CBS Local Chicago ^ | May 26, 2015 | unattributed CBS

Posted on 05/26/2015 2:31:15 PM PDT by Jack Black

Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he’s been in touch with the families of the dozen people killed by gunfire this weekend, including a four-year-old girl. He also talked to reporters and police about the more than three dozen people wounded as well, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.

Mayor Emanuel attended a luncheon honoring police officers for valor and service above and beyond the call and he acknowledged this was a weekend with far too many shootings and deaths.

He says it will take more than police officers to quell the violence, it will take community action and it will take stronger gun laws.

“It is not just about how many police you have, it is about the quantity of guns that are on the street so we actually have gun laws that back up the men and women we just recognized,” Emanuel said.

But that requires action from Springfield where lawmakers are embroiled in a budget standoff.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: banglist; blackonblack; chicago; chiraq
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To: Jack Black

Why don’t they just make crime illegal? DUH!


41 posted on 05/26/2015 3:13:25 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: Stosh

Oh how I wish just ONE of these commie fascist mayors would institute a gun confiscation and try to go door to door. This death my little cuts would end the charade and put them where they belong ... under the Constitution instead of peeing all over it.


42 posted on 05/26/2015 3:16:12 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

[[Bunch of criminals, running wild, breaking all kinds of laws.
Hey! I have an idea! Why don’t we pass more laws?!]]

And make it absolutely impossible for law abiding citizens to defend themselves while we’re at it

Brilliant! It worked so well in Chicago before, let’s repeat it now! Brilliant move Rahm! Chicago was such a hotbed of peace and tranquility back when you outlawed guns altogether-... oh wait=- no it wasn’t!


43 posted on 05/26/2015 3:22:51 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Stosh

I have no idea what you’re saying to me nor why you’re saying it


44 posted on 05/26/2015 3:29:43 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: Jack Black

That fool of a mayor is an absolute Idiot.


45 posted on 05/26/2015 3:36:35 PM PDT by mongo141 (Revolution ver. 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
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To: Jack Black

As usual. They want to take guns from non-violent people and deliberately leave them in the hands of violent criminals.


46 posted on 05/26/2015 3:46:15 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: heshtesh

It seems like these brilliant demonrats are intent upon replicating the South African Boer experience right here in America. Come and take ‘em you mothers.


47 posted on 05/26/2015 3:57:32 PM PDT by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a politically correct way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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To: Jack Black

When Dead Fish says stricter gun laws, he means that the criminals get to keep their weapons while law abiding citizens need to give up their arms


48 posted on 05/26/2015 4:03:34 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

“How to think like a Democrat”

This is better:

I like to keep banging my head on the wall,

a little boy told his Pop.

I like to keep banging my head on the wall,

‘cause it feels so good when I stop.


49 posted on 05/26/2015 4:15:10 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: Jack Black

at one time, chicago was a smidge behind D.C. in gun restrictions - To no avail.

what could possibly be different this time ?


50 posted on 05/26/2015 4:16:14 PM PDT by stylin19a (obama = Eddie Mush)
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To: Jack Black

Yes,community action by CCW permit holders!


51 posted on 05/26/2015 5:21:09 PM PDT by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: Jack Black

Seems to me like Baltimore is competing with Chicago as the most violent city . . .


52 posted on 05/26/2015 5:37:55 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: Stosh; knarf

I think knarf was agreeing with you, Stosh. I think he was responding to the original statement by The Ballerina.


53 posted on 05/26/2015 6:01:23 PM PDT by Lazamataz (America has less than a year left.)
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To: Billthedrill

Hold the presses!!!!

Criminals don’t obey the law??

Inconceivable!


54 posted on 05/26/2015 6:02:26 PM PDT by Voice of Reason88 ( Freedom is never lost all at once - Edmund Burke)
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To: dp0622

Up until they invented guns the world lived in peace and harmony. /s


55 posted on 05/26/2015 6:03:45 PM PDT by Voice of Reason88 ( Freedom is never lost all at once - Edmund Burke)
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To: Voice of Reason88

Lol. The romans were practically hippies


56 posted on 05/26/2015 6:15:41 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: Jack Black
it will take community action and it will take stronger gun laws. <<

No you idiot..it will take community action and stronger 2 parent households....Who's doing all the shooting?...The damned black THUGS...That's what u got to fix!!...and u cant do that with gun control!

57 posted on 05/26/2015 6:28:27 PM PDT by M-cubed ( Their hope is to find a way to pick a nominee who, if elected, would actually stay the course the w)
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To: Lazamataz

Thanks, Laz - my apologies to the Knarf for the snark


58 posted on 05/26/2015 6:42:33 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: Old Grumpy

DeBlasio’s NYC is in the running, as well. Crime up 12.7%, over this time last year.


59 posted on 05/26/2015 6:51:04 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Jack Black
it will take community action

Hey, deadfish Rambo....looks like the community IS already taking ACTION.

60 posted on 05/26/2015 6:52:42 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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