Nine men were killed and 48 others, including two young boys, have been wounded in shootings across Chicago so far this holiday weekend.
The latest fatal shooting happened just before 6 p.m. Saturday on the West Side, where a spray of bullets hit seven people on West Flournoy Street at Francisco Avenue on the West Side. A 48-year-old man, shot in the leg, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Four other people in critical condition and one in serious condition were taken to Stroger Hospital, fire officials said. One person in serious condition was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital.
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It's good to know all these folks have been through background checks, and the FBI has a spent casing from their guns! They will catch them in a minute!
ReplyDeleteA nice contrast to Chicago for a natural experiment is Houston. Houston is very similar to Chicago in terms of socioeconomic factors such as population, density, and segregation. Houston, like Chicago, is a major center for illegal activities such as the drug trade and human trafficking. Despite all this, Houston has a murder rate two-thirds that of Chicago. This is because the people of Houston are well armed, while innocents in Chicago have been condemned to be sitting ducks.
ReplyDeleteMake no mistake. Any gun deaths are a tragedy, but restricting gun possession does not prevent them. John Lott’s seminal work More Guns, Less Crime found that allowing law-abiding citizens to posses firearms reduces violent crime and causes criminals to turn to crimes which do not involve as much confrontation, such as break-ins. While most proponents of gun control are well intentioned, they are wrong to call for limitations on the possession of weapons by law-abiding citizens.
48-year-old man, shot in the leg,was pronounced dead.
ReplyDeleteWe all know from watching cowboy movies you don't die from leg wounds. You take a shot of whiskey bite on a stick, pick out the slug, Pour some whiskey on wound if there's any left and tie it off with your kerchief and get back on your horse.
Where's the DHS and all the assorted police and military they brought out for the Boston killings? Is it because it's Obama-ville?
ReplyDeleteDrug dealers in Chicago don't have horses.
ReplyDelete@ 7:21 people CAN and DO die from leg wounds if they are hit in the femoral artery.
ReplyDeleteYear to date 2013:
ReplyDeleteChicago Homicides,
Shot and killed=189.
Over 900 wounded.
Total murders=218 (plus tonight's)
Killed in action in Afghanistan, 47.
These crimes disproportionately involve black community's in major cities across the country, yet no one will say it and address the problem. Where is the (NAACP)?
The Congressional BLACK caucus?
Both of which are racist in nature and origin by the way, but no of them, not even Jesse or Al will speak of it... Nor will the Obama regime or democrats.
Despicable.
Their tacet refrain is deafening.
So let me get this straight - Obama and his bunch of Gun grabbing liberals in Chicago can't get the handle on these shoottings in his "hometown", but somehow wants us to believe if they impose the same "law" on rest of America, we all would be living in peaceful paradise with no arms for our protection. Yeah, there is a place like that called Utopia and its in science-fiction books. No Thanks.
ReplyDeleteHow come Obama cannot visit there more frequently?
ReplyDeleteHow come Obama cannot visit there more frequently?
ReplyDeleteJuly 8, 2013 at 4:23 AM
He don't want to get shot?