With murders up nearly 80% in Chicago last month, Lori Lightfoot blames guns

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  1. nra37922

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    Shootings and homicides in Chicago increased sharply in June compared to the same time last year.

    Police data show that shootings in Chicago increased by 75% in June of 2020 compared to June 2019, and murders in the city rose by 78%, according to NBC 5 Chicago.

    In June of this year, 424 people were shot, and 89 were murdered — compared to 242 shootings and 50 murders during the same month last year.

    Last weekend alone, gun violence killed more than a dozen people, including three children. Twelve people were killed on Father’s Day weekend, including a 3-year-old.

    The city plans to deploy 1,200 extra officers over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, according to WGN TV.

    When asked about the rise in violence, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a Democrat, said it was a “complicated” question and suggested that gun control is the answer.

    “That’s a complicated question,” Lightfoot said. “We have way too many guns on the streets.


    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...chicago-last-month-lori-lightfoot-blames-guns

    Granted there are way too many guns on the streets of Chicago in the hands of gang bangers and other low life hoodlums whom she didn't address unless this is the "complicated question" she alluded to. And I would have thought she would have mentioned the BLM? march that's taking place on 7/32/2020 to address black on black crime in the city.
     
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  2. Josh77

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    She has way too many thugs on the street is the problem.
     
  3. Steve N

    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It's amazing how guns don't kill scores of people until they hit Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, St Louis and New Orleans.
     
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    Wait, doesn't Chicago have some of the strictest gun laws? BTW, these gun shootings are almost all with illegal guns, not legal guns.
     
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    It is likely because of the high content of lead in the air of these cities.
     
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    I’m not seeing that to be the case.

    https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2020-06/cbsafactbook2019.xlsx

    Chicago: .19 micrograms/meters cubed
    Detroit: .03
    Baltimore: no data
    St. Louis: .15
    New Orleans: .09

    For comparison:

    DFW: .23
    Omaha: .06
    Payson, AZ: .16
    Troy, AL: .16
    Tampa: .09

    50 is the PEL. Not .5, 50.
     
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    lol.....I've always loved literalists.
     
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    Granted there are way too many guns on the streets
    That may be so, but it certainly destroys the old notion that more people with guns will make a better society.

    That said, with all the people out of work, confined to home, this is a perfect powder keg for domestic unrest. I am not condoning in any way, just an observation.
     
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    At any given point in the city of Chicago, there is enough lead in the air to amount to the weight found in a box of ammunition.
     
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    The numbers do not support that, but I get you’re referring to bullets, not “breathable“ lead.
     
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    I get you’re talking about bullets, but lead can cause severe nuero issues. Like the Mad Hatter. He was mad because he made hats. They used lead in the making of the hats back in the day, and that’s where the phrase “mad as a hatter” came from. As you saw or read, he certainly was acting crazy.
     
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    Not when those lawful gun owners are not gang bangers.
     
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    I hope she's not related to Gordon.
     
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    What a crap hole Chicago has become. And people thought the 1930s were bad....
     
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    Wait - it's not Trump's fault?

    The ChiFlu?

    That statue of Lincoln?
     
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    Nobody ever said felons and gang bangers should have guns.

    The more LEGAL gun owners, the safer it is.

    Democrat cities are full of gun owners, just not the legal kind.
     
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    Lets just call a spade a spade, Democrat cities are full of armed criminals.
     
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    And how do you know this. To suggest that all are criminals that reside in cities in BS.
     
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    Prior to the McDonald ruling, which held the second amendment applied to the states and cities, who possessed all the handguns used in the annual homicides in the city of Chicago, which maintained an absolute prohibition on handgun ownership?
     
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    Never suggested that. Your apology is accepted in advance.
     
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    Yeah, it can't be her pandering to the anti law anti cop rioters and looters in her democrat run city. **** her. She's a ****ing idiot that convinced a bunch of ****ing idiots to vote for her. Only a ****ing idiot would think that the way to fight crime would be to cut the budget of the police department. Just like a Democrat to create a problem and then divert the blame. I bet that the same ****ing idiots keep voting for that ****ing idiot expecting things to change.
     
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    Funny how the cop hater plans to deploy 1200 extra officers this weekend too, huh?

    Which is it Democrats ---- cops are bad and should be defunded, or you need to deploy more cops? Geezus what a mess.
     
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    Democrat cities are full of armed criminals.
    I am not apologizing. That was your statement.
     
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    Now that we've got all the righties together what would they do differently than the Democratic mayors to stop people living in poverty from killing each other?
     
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    I would refuse the overtime if I were a cop in Chicago.
     
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