Posted on 06/25/2021 4:10:23 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
One person was killed and 24 people were wounded in shootings in Chicago Wednesday, including two attacks that wounded eight people in Austin and Englewood around the same time.
In Austin, a woman and three men were shot around 9:30 p.m. as they stood outside in the 4900 block of West Hubbard Street. Two people emerged from a gangway and fired, police said. A 19-year-old woman was struck in the chest and a 37-year-old man was struck in the leg. They were both brought to Mount Sinai Hospital in fair condition. A 29-year-old man was struck in the face and shoulder, and a 34-year-old man was shot in the leg and arm. They were both brought to Stroger Hospital, where the 29-year-old was in serious condition, and the older man was in fair condition.
At the same time, four members of a motorcycle club were shot in Englewood on the South Side. They were outside in the 7000 block of South Vincennes Avenue when someone in a car fired at them, police said. A 52-year-old man was shot in the arm and lower back and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition. Two others, 44 and 57, were struck in the leg. The 44-year-old was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center and the other was taken to St. Bernard Hospital, both in fair condition. A fourth man, 65, was struck in the arm and also taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center.
In the day’s first reported shooting, a 14-year-old boy was shot in the foot in East Garfield Park on the West Side. He was outside in the 3800 block of West Adams Street when he was wounded about 1:55 a.m., police said.
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So several people decided to try to end the lives of a couple dozen people (maybe more)...and their choice of tools is the problem? If only we further regulated those tools it would somehow mitigate that homicidal rage? Really? Does anyone think the tool is the problem here?
Sounds like a slow night. Did they declare a cease fire?
Is this PROOF that “guns don’t kill people”?
Out of the 24, how many would have died of natural causes? Electrocution, drug overdose, heart attack, ex-spousal abuse...?
Too funny!
Now I know why we have an ammo shortage LOL!
We need more weapons training for better accuracy!
Need to make sure the ammo supply holds out and isn’t interrupted.
They need to get them some signs saying:
KEEP THE AMMO COMING
WE NEED MORE AMMO
SEND MORE AMMO
AMMO MATTERS
A 14 year old boy on the streets of Englewood at 1:00 am.
And they say guns are the problem.
L
AS the Roman Empire accepted it could never defeat the Germanic tribes, they prolonged their existence with bribes or by simply supporting the weaker side whenever possible in conflicts between those tribes. The logic was understandable; everyone dying was German (though it didn’t save the empire).
We are at the same stage now...
My father would have tracked me down and dragged me home, not that I would have even thought about being out that late.
Maybe strict fathers in the home aren't such a bad idea after all.
I’m sure mayor lighthead will find a way to blame Whitey for this.
The only thing that bothers me about the Amish shooting each other is the poor marksmanship.
Spot on!
What was the poem about danegeld?
It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: —
“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: —
“We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!”
Kipling....
Thanks; the last couple of years has seen the danegeld tripled while working Americans have watched their standards of living collapse.
4-percent
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