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Mayor Lori Lightfoot Seeks Federal Gun Control as Chicago Shootings Surge
breitbart ^ | 06/16/2021 | Awr Hawkins

Posted on 06/16/2021 6:28:20 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) pushed for more federal gun control Tuesday as Chicago gun violence surges and firearm-related homicides continue to increase.

Breitbart News reported eight people were shot inside a residence Tuesday, leaving four dead and four wounded while 43 people were shot over the weekend in Chicago and 55 were shot the previous weekend in the city.

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KEYWORDS: banglist; chicago; federal; guns; lightfoot
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To: Pilgrim's Progress
I thought she said the numbers were trending in the right direction?

She did indeed, just last week: Lightfoot says gun violence 'trending in the right direction' amid bloodiest year in more than a decade.

21 posted on 06/16/2021 6:53:02 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Chicago has more gun co troll than almost anywhere else in America yet has more murders than any town in America.
Gun control has nothing to do with it. Its the people who live there plus the super stupid, evil cretins like Lightfoot they keep electing.
The violence in Chicago is going to continue unabated and its only going to get even worse.
22 posted on 06/16/2021 6:53:15 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How about more control over IDIOT female black Mayor’s??????


23 posted on 06/16/2021 6:56:38 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

IL has plenty of gun laws, if they would just enforce them.


24 posted on 06/16/2021 6:58:01 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

What are the demographics of Maine? That might have some bearing on the crime rate.


25 posted on 06/16/2021 7:08:39 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

New Englanders tend to say very little and spend time in the woods with axes, shovels, and other implements of horror. They are blunt, direct, and mean what they say. At least the long time residents that is.


26 posted on 06/16/2021 7:09:16 AM PDT by blackdog (Joe Biden, Deep State Cuckold.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Mayor Lightfoot said that people in her city were “forced” to commit criminal acts in order to survive. She doesn’t want to deprive them of the use of illegally owned firearms to survive. She wants to rid the city of legally owned firearms to make it easier for them to survive.


27 posted on 06/16/2021 7:10:15 AM PDT by throwthebumsout
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Triple threat is in over her head.

Hey, what's the old saying?

Those who can't do, teach - or go into politics, blame others for their own failures, and plead for federal assistance...

;^)

29 posted on 06/16/2021 7:14:02 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike." - John Locke)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
She just wants someone else to take the heat for controlling the feral negro population.

Maybe I'm a cynic, but the Cook County State's Attorney, Kim "Crimesha" Fox and the Dem Cook County judges are primarily responsible for allowing criminals back on the streets even after repeated arrests for gun offenses. They are allies of Lightbrain's political opponent, Crook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle.

So maybe this crisis is engineered to bolster Preckwinkle's "progressive" bone fides while causing Lightfoot as much trouble as possible.

30 posted on 06/16/2021 7:16:09 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

She hasn’t figured out yet that they have too many jails and prisons and climate change. These are the root causes of all societies’ ills.


31 posted on 06/16/2021 7:23:37 AM PDT by webheart (I already had COVID disease and 2 vaccine shots Can I take the mask off now?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

More laws but fewer police? Does she ever have a genuine thought?


32 posted on 06/16/2021 7:30:06 AM PDT by Spok (There are many more things that frighten us than can cause us harm.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
You really think it's guns that are killing people?.....

It's Satan's animals running loose in every sick sinful city!!

33 posted on 06/16/2021 7:30:18 AM PDT by high info voter
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Another liberal utopia that wants to dictate how the rest of the country lives


34 posted on 06/16/2021 7:33:21 AM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Rape isn't penis violence.

Arson isn't fire violence.

Murder isn't gun violence.

Lori Lightfoot's problem isn't 'guns', it's black male criminals.... and a black community that glorifies violent black thugs...

35 posted on 06/16/2021 7:35:40 AM PDT by GOPJ (Rape isn't penis violence. Arson isn't fire violence. Murder isn't gun violence. CriminalsRviolence )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sniffer will finish the border wall.


36 posted on 06/16/2021 7:47:30 AM PDT by depressed in 06
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To: Ronald77

It’s almost like they want this to be happening. How hard would it be to end the Portland riots happening constantly.


37 posted on 06/16/2021 7:49:20 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: ChicagoConservative27

America needs common sense Negro control!


38 posted on 06/16/2021 7:49:52 AM PDT by jjotto (Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This Beetlejuice lookalike refuses to answer the obvious question: if excess guns (legal or otherwise) in other states were the problem how come they don’t have gun deaths in the hundreds/year?


39 posted on 06/16/2021 7:50:04 AM PDT by bobbo666 (wokies)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
You don't need gun control. You need to arrest, prosecute and incarcerate the criminals doing the shooting. That won't happen because the shooters belong to a group that is identified as being "disproportionately represented" in the prison population. The "disproportionate" claim is a damn lie. They are incarcerated because they were permitted due process and found guilty.
40 posted on 06/16/2021 7:51:22 AM PDT by Myrddin
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