The Oct. 1 shooting massacre in Las Vegas that killed 59 people and wounded more than 500 was horrific, and terribly indicative of how much misery and evil one person can perpetrate. Similarly horrible and heartbreaking are the nearly relentless shootings -- despite tough gun laws -- in the city of Chicago.
In 2016, there were 4,368 shooting victims in the Windy City. This year, as of Monday, 2,961 people had been shot.
In just the first nine days of October, 95 people were shot.
Since May, the number of shooting victims in Chicago has decreased each month relative to last year, according to the Chicago Tribune's shooting victims database and website. However, the victim numbers are high. (The Tribune dataare for "number of victims, not shooting incidents," and this includes non-fatal and fatal shootings; the number of shooting homicides is lower than the number of shooting victims.)
As the database shows, in January 2017 there were 312 shooting victims in Chicago; in January 2016, there were 297. The chart below shows the number of victims by month for both years.
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7 comments:
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Why don't THESE "black lives matter?"
Undertakers are having a field day.
I need to open up a cemetery there .
Keep up the thug control.
They don't care about black people's lives.
NOT A PEEP from the liberal goofs about more gun laws in Chicago or an OUNCE of concern about the thousands of citizens murdered in that city alone.
Black leaders and their lemming followers want an ISSUE to incite anger and publicity.
Their credibility is close to zero.
The Black Disciples can spray a curbside bus stop with aa MAC-10 and kill three kids and injure eight, four of them children under 7. EVERY WEEKEND.
You'll never see any of that on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, or NBC, or from anyone else who so publicly and mournfully decry the oppression and murder of black people. Black people, even from Black Lives (don't) Matter, deflect the conversation to slave ownership and bad white cops.
Black people in Chicago? You're on your own.
No black politician , church, leaders, activist, or "leader" outside of Chicago gives a crap about you. It's SO obvious, but you are convinced your Democrat "leaders" are doing right by you.
You best bet might be to look into joining the Latin Kings or the Disciples.
You could, at least, carry some heat.
Cheer on, liberals, cheer on....
Gun laws really working there. Maybe they'll exterminate themselves...
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