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  • Joe Biden Claims He Has ‘Been to All but 3 Mass Shootings in the United States’

    09/26/2024 5:26:24 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 19 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 09/26/2024 | Awr Hawkins
    While announcing more executive gun control Thursday night, President Joe Biden (D) claimed he has “been to all but three mass shootings in the United States of America.” Biden was talking about “spending time with surviving families” when he said, “I’ve been to all but three mass shootings in the United States of America.” Understand that the National Firearms Act (1934) was passed, in part, because of the St. Valentine’s massacre of 1929. Seven people were killed in that shooting, but Biden was not born until 1942 so he could not have “been there” for that one.
  • Kaine: It’s a ‘Lie’ to Blame Trump Shootings on Dem Rhetoric, ‘Look at the Identities’ of the Shooters

    09/21/2024 11:14:51 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 40 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 09/21/2024 | Ian hatchett
    During an interview with ABC News on Friday, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) responded to charges from Republicans that rhetoric about 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump might have led to the assassination attempts of Trump by stating that we should “look at the identities of these two deranged individuals who carried out these attacks.” And “Donald Trump inspired an attack on the Capitol on January 6. And the Republicans might want us to stop talking about that and what that means, but it’s a fact.”
  • Mayor Adams touts drop in NYC murders, shootings in annual report: ‘Our efforts are working’

    09/16/2024 11:50:23 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 16 replies
    NY Post ^ | 09/16/2024 | Carl Campanile
    Murder and shootings plummeted in the Big Apple during the past fiscal year, according to the city’s annual management report, which was released Monday by Mayor Eric Adams. While soaring crime persists in some areas, such as tourist-packed Midtown Manhattan, the city generally fared better overall July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024, when compared to the same period last year, the report found. Murder and manslaughter plummeted 15%, dropping from 424 to 359 of the crimes. Shootings fell 18%, from 1,140 to 932, and the report cites a big drop in gang-related violence. Burglaries decreased 13%, from 15,054 to...
  • Chicago at Nearly 1,200 Shootings for 2024 Following July 4 Carnage

    07/13/2024 11:10:41 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 20 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 07/13/2024 | Awr Hawkins
    ABC 7 noted that, as of Sunday, July 7, 2024, Chicago, Illinois, was nearly at 1,200 shootings for 2024. Ironically, Sunday was the last day of the July 4, 2024, weekend — a weekend in which at least 100 people were shot, 17 of them fatally, in the Windy City. According to ABC 7, Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling reacted to the July 4 weekend violence by saying, “We cannot take our eyes off the ball. We cannot stop thinking about the people who have been victimized by this crime.”
  • Chicago shootings: At least 41 shot, 9 fatally, in citywide Memorial Day weekend violence, CPD says

    05/28/2024 11:02:39 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 20 replies
    ABC News Local ^ | May 28, 2024 | By Tre Ward, and Cate Cauguiran
    CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's been a violent holiday weekend so far in Chicago. At least 41 people have been shot, nine fatally, since Friday evening. One of those shootings left a 5-year-old girl dead. Despite the still high shooting numbers, calls to stop the gun violence in the city seemed to have an impact. This holiday weekend's violence numbers, so far, are lower than last year's, when 53 people were shot, 11 fatally. The long weekend is putting Mayor Brandon Johnson's summer safety plan to the test. He spoke during a community walk over the weekend, criticizing previous administrations for...
  • Brutal justice for nine gang-rape thugs who sexually assaulted young girl in front of her mother as South African cops shoot them all dead in raid

    04/03/2024 4:30:08 PM PDT · by Bonemaker · 110 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 04/03/2924 | Jamie Pyatt
    A police tactical firearms team in South Africa shot dead nine members of a brutal gang suspected of raping a young girl in front of her screaming mother. Swift justice was handed out when the elite unit was ordered by top brass to find the eleven men who had put their victim through such a sickening ordeal. The ruthless gang based near Durban, KwaZulu-Natal province, is believed to be behind a series of serious crimes including murder and armed robbery.
  • Joe Biden Claims ‘More Mass Shootings in 2024’ than ‘Days in the Year’

    02/16/2024 6:14:39 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 27 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/16/2024 | AWR HAWKINS
    President Joe Biden (D) claimed on Thursday that there had been more mass shootings in 2024 “than days in the year.” Biden posted his claim on X: We’ve now had more mass shootings in 2024 than there have been days in the year. It’s unacceptable. We must end this senseless epidemic of gun violence tearing us at the seams. — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) February 15, 2024 He offered no substantiation of his claim, no reference to where he found evidence of “more mass shootings … than there have been days in the year.” Biden made a similar assertion on May...
  • Updated information on Mass Public Shootings from 1998 through October 2023

    01/16/2024 1:22:05 PM PST · by PROCON · 10 replies
    crimeresearch.org ^ | Jan. 12, 2024 | John R. Lott
    When another shooting happens at a place such as a school or a mall, politicians and the media are apt to claim that many hundreds of mass shootings occur each year. “Over the last year since Uvalde, our country has experienced a staggering 650 mass shootings,” President Joe Biden claimed last year. After a shooting in Lewiston, Maine in late October, CNN said that there had already been “586 mass shootings” that year.These statements give an incorrect impression that there are massacres every day, like the infamous 2022 Uvalde shooting, which claimed the lives of nineteen students and two teachers,...
  • The Truth About Mass Shootings

    01/13/2024 12:52:46 PM PST · by rogerantone1 · 8 replies
    Real Clear Policy ^ | January 13, 2024 | John R. Lott Jr.
    When another shooting happens at a place such as a school or a mall, politicians and the media are apt to claim that many hundreds of mass shootings occur each year. “Over the last year since Uvalde, our country has experienced a staggering 650 mass shootings,” President Joe Biden claimed last year. After a mass murder in Lewiston, Maine in late October, CNN said that there had already been “586 mass shootings” that year.
  • Murder, shootings down in NYC in 2023 — but assault is up: NYPD

    12/30/2023 9:04:58 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 21 replies
    Nypost ^ | 12/30/2023 | Tina Moore and Matthew Sedacca
    Murders and shootings dropped in New York City in 2023 — but the number of assaults continue a troubling upward trend, according to a year-end review of NYPD data. Overall crime in the five boroughs squeaked through the year on a high note — down .5% through Dec. 24 when compared to the same period last year, NYPD data show. Murders declined 11%, with 380 so far this year compared to 429 in 2022. Shootings plunged 24%, with 967 so far this year vs. 1,277 in the same span last year.
  • Defying presidents and Congress, the ATF, DEA, FBI and U.S. Marshals shroud their shootings in secrecy

    12/05/2023 11:21:19 AM PST · by DUMBGRUNT · 8 replies
    NBC NEWS ^ | 5 Dec 2023 | Simone Weichselbaum
    From 2018 to 2022, 223 people were shot by an on-duty federal officer, a member of a federal task force or a local officer participating in an operation with federal agents, according to an NBC News analysis. A total of 151 were killed, an average of 30 per year. ..Valladares was found on a couch, shot dead, with his hands bound in duct tape, local police said. “The agent’s account of what occurred was not supported by the physical evidence,” Acevedo said. “To this day, there has been no additional evidence that discredited our investigative findings.” Sheriff Michael Chitwood of...
  • Mass shootings in US hit new record in 2023, highest since 2006

    12/05/2023 6:40:11 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 28 replies
    The Hill ^ | 12/05/2023 | NICK ROBERTSON
    There have been more mass shootings with four or more deaths in 2023 than in any year since at least 2006, according to gun violence data. There have been 38 mass killings this year, up from last year’s previous high of 36, The Washington Post’s gun violence database shows. A pair of shootings in Dallas and Vancouver, Wash., on Sunday broke the record and pushed the number of deaths in such shootings to 197 — excluding the gunmen. Mass killings have been on the rise in recent years, especially since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. There were 21 mass...
  • Gretchen Carlson's Ignorant Tweet About the AR-15 Sets the Internet Ablaze

    11/01/2023 4:29:36 AM PDT · by DeplorablePaul · 81 replies
    Red State ^ | October 31, 2023 | Nick Arama
    Ordinary people didn’t have AR-15s before 2004. They’re not some time-honored American tradition, they’re a recent mistake that we could fix and save thousands of lives in the process.
  • Active shooter situation with multiple injuries at multiple locations in Lewiston, Maine

    10/25/2023 5:13:48 PM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 455 replies
    Active shooter situation with multiple injuries at multiple locations in Lewiston, Maine
  • US school shootings reach new high, doubled in past year

    09/14/2023 11:23:42 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 13 replies
    The Hill ^ | 09/14/2023 | LEXI LONAS
    School shootings reached a record high in the 2021-2022 school year, doubling the previous record that was set the year before, according to new federal data released Wednesday. In the 2021-2022 school year, 188 school shootings with casualties were reported, breaking the record from the year before, when 93 shootings with casualties were reported, according to the National Center for Education Statistics’ (NCES) annual crime and safety report.
  • Residents of L.A.’s Watts Urged to Avoid Large Gatherings Due to Shootings

    08/03/2023 6:20:57 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 43 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 08/03/2023 | JOEL B. POLLAK
    Residents of Watts, a predominantly Latino and black neighborhood in south-central Los Angeles, are being discouraged from attending large gatherings for the rest of 2023 due to the recent surge of drive-by and mass shootings in the area. The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday: Leaders have now called on Watts residents not to congregate in large groups for the rest of 2023. … The impassioned calls for “unity within the community” arrived on the heels of two shootings that killed two and injured nine near the Imperial Courts and Jordan Downs public housing projects, according to LAPD Deputy Chief Emada...
  • CNN: ‘Structural Racism’ May Be Behind Mass Shootings in Large Cities

    07/20/2023 9:04:35 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 105 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 07/20/2023 | AWR HAWKINS
    CNN cited a study from Tulane University Wednesday and claimed “structural racism” may be behind mass shootings in large cities like Chicago and Milwaukee. CNN leaned on the study to point out “mass shootings in major metropolitan areas…disproportionately affect black people.” They quoted the Tulane researchers indicating, “Racial and ethnic minority populations are significantly more likely to be victims of (mass shootings).”
  • Two ‘peacekeepers’ shot in Chicago this weekend, including one on electronic monitoring: source

    07/16/2023 6:10:47 PM PDT · by CFW · 25 replies
    CWB Chicago ^ | 7/16/23 | staff
    CHICAGO — Two Chicago men were shot while working as “peacekeepers” in Little Village over the weekend, including one who was shot in the leg, right next to the electronic monitoring bracelet he was wearing for a pending felony gun case. The men were shot about a block from where another peacekeeper allegedly helped beat and rob a motorist in May. Chicago police had their hands full in Little Village on Friday night, especially considering that a group of peacekeepers was on the street, preventing violence. First, two men were shot in the 2100 block of South Fairfield just after...
  • Forbes Claims More than 330 ‘Mass Shootings’ This Year Using Misleading Data

    07/04/2023 9:30:45 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 15 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 07/04/2023 | Awr Hawkins
    Forbes pointed to misleading data and claimed on Monday there had been over 330 “mass shootings” in the United States so far in 2023. They labeled their report “breaking” news. Writing at Forbes, Ana Faguy relied on the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), a pro-gun-control database which abandoned the long-standing definition of a “mass shooting” as four or more deaths in a single incident by a single gunman and replaced it with “a minimum of four victims shot, either injured or killed, not including any shooter who may also have been killed or injured in the incident.” GVA’s new definition allows...
  • Two Killed, Eight Wounded Overnight as Shootings Rattle Democrat-Run Milwaukee

    05/28/2023 10:41:48 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 24 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/28/2023 | Awr Hawkins
    Seven shootings killed two people and wounded a further eight overnight in Democrat-run Milwaukee, Wisconsin. CBS 58 reported the shootings began about 7:30 p.m. Saturday night and continued until just before 5 a.m. The two shooting fatalities occurred in the incident shortly after midnight Sunday. The shooting occurred “near N. 37th St. and W. Townsend St.” and two men–a 43-year-old and a 47-year-old–died as a result.