Chicago: 32 Shot, Five Fatally in Weekend Violence
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by Warner Todd Huston14 Mar 2016Chicago, IL
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As Americans tallied up their primary choices for president of the United States, Chicago was counting a tally of its own in the number of citizens shot and killed by other citizens waging incessant gang violence, plaguing the city. This weekend some citizens of the Windy City were pulling out guns instead of ballots with a toll of 32 shootings that resulted in five deaths.
By Sunday morning the Chicago Sun-Times was already reporting that four Chicagoans had been killed by gunfire and another 22 wounded. But as Sunday drew to a close, ten more shootings occurred, along with yet another fatality.
One of the Sunday murder victims was a 16-year-old male gunned down in the city’s far South Side Rosemoor neighborhood. It was reported that when police arrived on the scene the teen was already dead from gunshots to the head.
Others killed included a 22-year-old man shot on the Northwest Side, a 24-year-old killed in Garfield Park, a 20-year-old man shot several times, and a pregnant woman shot in Jeffery Manor on the Far South Side. The fifth and final death occurred in the Roseland neighborhood.
The toll exceeds the tally from the same weekend in 2014 when 3 were killed and 6 wounded and rivals the 6 killed and 28 wounded over the same weekend last year.
Chicago has seen 603 shootings, of which 103 were fatal so far in 2016.
The weekend included the arrest of the father of a 9-year-old assassinated in a gang retaliation shooting late last year after he allegedly shot three people.
Police charged that gang bangers shot Little Tyshawn in the head last November. But law enforcement later said that the shooters belonged to a rival gang to that which Pierre Stokes, the boy’s father, belonged. On Sunday Stokes himself was arrested with the Chicago Police, charging that he engaged in a retaliatory shooting against the girlfriend of the man arrested for shooting his son.
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...nothing like strict gun control ...geez...here where I live almost everyone has at least one gun...and once in awhile you might here a report on the scanner of someone hearing a gunshot...very few crimes with guns...but then Chicago seems to have a lot of issues these days...
the correlation isn real clear, of the top ten states with highest gun ownership,, half of them also have highest gun death rate,, and half don't
http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-by-gun-top-20-states-with-highest-rates/12/
per 100 g
10 tn 15.4
9 nm 15.5
8 ok 16.5
6 wy 16.7
6 montana 16.7
5 ark 16.8
4 ala 17.6
3 mississippi 17.8
2 louisiana 19.3
1 alaska 19.8
http://reverbpress.com/politics/firearms-per-capita-by-state/
10 louisana 15.1
9 alaska 15.2
8 nevada 19.5
7 alabama 20
6 idaho 24.2
5 virginia 30.1
4 new mexico 40.5
3 arkansas 41.6
2 DC 66.4
1 wyoming 195.7
Now ya knew that spin would NOT work. Why bother ?
Owning guns is legal. Restrictions are varied. So does the population & demographics & even terrain of each state ( hunting etc ).
And it doesn't apply here.
You know the drill & the facts & anyone including yourself can look up the FBI stats. AGAIN.
* been out here 4-6 times in the past year... & always posted to you*
Blacks are 11-16% of the population & the majority of inmates are black.
Most crimes of violence: murder, rape, aggravated assault, assault with a deadly weapon, battery etc., are committed by blacks.
Most violent crimes, including rape are black on black.
Most crimes committed with an gun are made with illegal guns by blacks.
Most assaults on police, including shootings are done by blacks.
Most people who are killed by police are white men.
Black men are 5% of the population & commit the most crimes.
Welcome to Chiraq
Where no one cares or
They pretend is isn't happening or
They blame someone or something else. Or
They keep telling the truth like I am now.. Again.