Windy? Is It All The Bullets Whizzing By Or The Hot Air?
BY PGF
2 years, 8 months ago
If you want gun control so bad why don’t you move to Chicago?
It was as if a switch had been flipped. At least ten major U.S. cities hit new murder highs in 2021, but Chicago led the way with 797, the city’s highest number in 25 years.
Chicago’s violent crime epidemic is not limited to murder. The city’s 3,561 shooting incidents in 2021 were up 63 percent over 2019. Expressway shootings in Chicago-Cook County rose even more dramatically, from 51 in 2019 to 130 in 2020 to 273 in 2021. These expressway shootings pushed Chicago’s actual 2021 murder total north of 800.
Expressway killings aren’t counted in the official city numbers because expressways are under state jurisdiction. But try telling that to Chicagoans. “It’s almost like a modern, 21st century form of dueling,” said Illinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly. “[People get into fights with] each other on social media, they threaten one another and they say . . . ‘Let’s take this out to the expressway.’”
The Chicago Mayor sees the problem as a personal protection issue. Well, she’s right. Of course, she doesn’t care about your personal protection.
On March 30, 2022 at 6:38 am, Bill Buppert said:
I happen to think that dueling would solve plenty of problems.
On March 30, 2022 at 10:29 am, J said:
“I happen to think that dueling would solve plenty of problems.”
More accurately stated, only half the problems.
On March 31, 2022 at 12:17 pm, Alex Lund said:
@J
after the first round.
You know, do enough duels and in the end you have only one survivor.
128 at the beginning
64 after 1.st round
32 after 2nd round
16 after 3rd round
8 after 4th round
4 after 5th round
2 after 6th round
1 after 7th round
On April 3, 2022 at 1:09 pm, bobdog said:
I read just this morning that Chicago carjackings hit 299 year to date.
In three months. During winter.
Gonna be an interesting summer once the Morlocks emerge from hibernation.