2016 Off To A Bloody Start as Shootings Double: 42 People Killed, 210 Hurt (Chicago)

dnainfo.com ^ | Jan. 28, 2016 | Kelly Bauer

[PROCON]

CHICAGO - Forty-two people have been killed and 210 wounded so far in January, almost doubling last year's numbers.

It was the most violent January in years, according to DNAinfo Chicago data: In all, there were 199 shootings Jan. 1-25, while there were just 100 shootings over the same period last year. The data doesn't include the victims of violence from Tuesday into Wednesday, when three people were killed and another wounded.

Through early Tuesday, 42 people had been shot dead and 210 wounded, while last January saw 22 people dead and 98 wounded in shootings. On Monday alone, five people were shot and killed in just 11 hours.

The month of soaring shooting numbers follows a rise in gun violence throughout all of 2015. Last year saw 2,427 shootings and 468 homicides, the highest those numbers have been since 2012, when the city had 2,451 shootings and 506 homicides.

[terycarl]

How come those guns sold in Indiana that stay in Indiana don’t go out of control and shoot people at nearly the rate those that end up in Chicago do?

Those nasty Indiana gun stores only sell the manufacturer rejects and second rate guns to Illinois residents. These could go off at any time, even without bullets in them and it is no wonder they just lie there killing innocent people.

[TexasRepublic]

“Chicago (south side mainly) has been a zoo since I lived in Brookfield in the 1960’s. The rest of the city is wonderful, but there is an ‘element’ in that part of town that is virtually beyond salvation.”

I have walked on foot through 3rd world neighborhoods, but I was never more worried than driving by accident through Chicago’s south side. At each stop light, every street zombie turned his head and stared at me as if I had just landed in a flying saucer.