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Pritzker declares gun violence a public health crisis in Illinois
The Center Square ^ | 11/1/21 | Kevin Bessler

Posted on 11/02/2021 7:34:36 AM PDT by AT7Saluki

Gov. J.B. Pritzker has declared gun violence in Illinois a public health crisis with an executive order.

Officials on Monday unveiled a $250 million investment to implement a public safety plan over the next 3 years, and curtail gun violence around the state.

According to data from the 2020 Uniform Crime Report, the crime rate in Illinois was 6.9% higher than the overall national crime rate.

There were a total of 1,151 murders committed in Illinois in 2020, up 38% from the previous year. Chicago, a city struggling with high rates of gun violence, was the setting of 774 of those murders, a more than 50% increase from 2019.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; chicago; crisis; defundthepolice; genderdysphoria; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; gun; homosexualagenda; illinois; jbpritzker; lorilightfoot; nra; panicporn; pritzker; secondamendment
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To: AT7Saluki

Maybe he should concentrate of drug overdoses. They kill like 10x more people, but we hardly hear about them.


41 posted on 11/02/2021 9:08:18 AM PDT by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHGreco RomNQkryIIs)
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To: nascarnation

She ain’t lookin’ like she’s missed too many meals there either.


42 posted on 11/02/2021 9:14:42 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: AT7Saluki

Prohibit blacks from owning guns. Racist! Unconstitutional! But I’m betting the gun violence in Chicago would plummet if it were to be enforced. OTOH, they don’t follow the law anyway so it may just be a pipe dream.


43 posted on 11/02/2021 9:16:39 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Blurb2350
That is the human body's response to form naturally body armour.
44 posted on 11/02/2021 9:17:52 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: AT7Saluki

Public health crisis == constitutional rights suspended for the duration, which is forever.


45 posted on 11/02/2021 9:35:18 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Freedom4US

Nope, it’s a real photo from a Chicago-area media outlet. During his campaign for gov., one of the first ads Pritzker released mentioned his weight — in a light-hearted way — knowing it would be an issue. His weight seems to go up and down a bit, and this photo was taken when he was on a major “up.”


46 posted on 11/02/2021 10:08:03 AM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: AT7Saluki

idiot governor.
but issuing such garbage “declarations” is useful as an excuse or “cover” enabling the gov steal or mis-direct more of our tax money to his own special interest “causes”


47 posted on 11/02/2021 10:48:32 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They’re excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: AT7Saluki
During Covid, Democrats have learned that elected members of the executive branch (State & federal) can make all kinds of mandates and proclamation in the name of a “Public Health crisis” that courts will support. Is it any wonder that they now want to label firearms deaths as a public health crisis?

Good bye, constitutional rights. Unless, things change, expect CDC, OHSA and others to mandate people turn in their firearms or loose their jobs, be bared from public services and events, etc.

48 posted on 11/02/2021 11:03:18 AM PDT by Robert357
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To: The Louiswu

It’s really just a Chicago problem, down state in many areas is waaayyyyy safer.

Champaign-Urbana has turned into Chicago south since the Floyd fiasco and/or the mask edict.


49 posted on 11/02/2021 2:10:33 PM PDT by Western Phil
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To: Western Phil

That’s gotta be scary for peeps with kids at Univ of Ill.


50 posted on 11/02/2021 2:12:26 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: AT7Saluki

Why aren’t automobile accidents a “public health crisis”?


51 posted on 11/02/2021 2:16:56 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: nascarnation

Most shootings seem bo be away from campus.


52 posted on 11/02/2021 3:53:42 PM PDT by Western Phil
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