Pretty well summarized by this meme:
You wonder if Chicago is beyond help by now. Although the rest of Illinois is not under the brutal urban warfare, I wonder how long will it take to spread. In fact I am wondering how come it is not already going though other cities like Genghis Khan and Company.
I did a couple of collages from Moms and Brady to show that perhaps the problem is not only the gangs that are running selected parts of the cities, but the mindset of certain part of the populations that is over-represented in the halls of power of the city of Chicago. The stupidity of contradictions and misconceptions is killing people wholesale, but as long as the emotional investment in politics is not threatened, the lives of those in the rally bad areas of the Windy City can be allowed to be wasted.
And in other news,
“As Chicago grapples with a surge in killings and a mistrust of law enforcement stemming from police shootings, the number of arrests in the city has fallen by 28 percent versus last year, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis finds.”
“Arrests have fallen in every major crime category included in the city’s online database, from theft to aggravated battery with a handgun — the most common charge for a nonfatal shooting.”
“The decline in arrests is welcomed by civil rights groups.
“Our perspective is: The fewer people in jail, the better it is for our communities,” says Deangelo Bester, executive director of the Workers Center for Racial Justice, which focuses on access to jobs.”
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/the-watchdogs-arrests-down-25-percent-in-chicago-this-year/
I think their motto should be “Ignorance is Strength”.
I know we ask it every time, but if the problem is lax laws in the bordering states, why do THOSE STATES not have an even higher rate of gun violence?
Just build a wall around Chicago.
Guns are for cowards….YES,! A gun makes a coward equal heh heh heh… stupid people are entertaining hey?
When people on your side start sounding like Alex Jones (it’s the CIA!) you know you’re losing.
Remember, everyone: whoever is in charge of prosecuting the federal firearm violations in Chicago is deliberately NOT prosecuting those thousands of arrestees. Chicago was dead last out of 90 districts nationwide that were assessed on this point. Only a handful of federal prosecutions. My coworkers couldn’t believe these stats. “Why?” They asked. Why don’t they prosecute? Ask the attorney general, I said. The liberals were numbed and silent.