9 dead, 43 injured in Chicago Memorial Day weekend shootings

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  1. Steve N

    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Check out the video.

    Frightening footage captures Chicago group with ‘machine guns’ open fire, killing 14-year-old and wounding 3

    Chilling video captures the moment a group of criminals armed with makeshift machine guns opens fire on a crowd in Chicago, killing a 14-year-old boy and wounding three other people.

    The four armed suspects — including at least one possibly 16 — are seen sneaking across an empty lot Wednesday night before jumping out from behind a building and firing off multiple rounds down the street, then running off, according to the surveillance footage obtained by CWB Chicago.

    https://nypost.com/2023/06/04/foota...-machine-guns-blast-away-killing-14-year-old/
     
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    Nightmare515 Ragin' Cajun Staff Member Past Donor

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    There are folks like that, they'll just never get elected for a simple reason. It's the massive elephant in the room that nobody is allowed to talk about for the "excuses" I mentioned in my previous post. The overwhelming vast majority of all violent crime in inner cities and in the country as a whole is conducted by a specific demographic that has, in the eyes of society, "suffered enough". Historical societal hardships, openly racist federal laws decades ago, biased police injustice, poverty, etc. It's "unfair" and "unjust" to "blame them" for their behavior due to all of the historical shortcomings their communities have had. We have to "understand" and be "sensitive to the feelings" of these folks. And if you disagree with that then due to the skin color of this specific demographic you are the naughty R word. And nobody likes being labeled the naughty R word.

    Me I say pound sand with both birds firmly in the air to that crap. I look just like these people, I grew up just like many of these people, my parents and grandparents suffered through the same unfair racist society that theirs did. I don't act like these people.

    Lock their asses up. I know it's socially illegal for certain races of folks to say that nowadays in 2023 so I'll say it for you.
     
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    It's Chiraq! And a

     
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    I'm not suggesting that packing heat is the right solution for everyone, but it was for 44 people in Chicago.

    Licensed gun owner turns tables on would-be carjackers amid soaring Chicago violence

    A legally armed concealed carry holder in Chicago turned the table on a pair of armed suspected carjackers who were left in handcuffs after the botched crime, police say.
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    Fox News Digital previously analyzed local Chicago media reports between 2020 and February of this year, and found there were at least 44 incidents in which people with a gun - who had concealed carry permits or FOID card - thwarted an attack or other crime in the city.

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/legally-...ns-fire-carjacking-suspects-wounds-one-police
     
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    Thank you very much for saying it for me. :)
    I have a black friend from another forum where I used to post. He says it like it is too. He takes a lot of **** from white leftists for being a black conservative who has NO tolerance for those who play the race or the pity card when it comes to blacks. I'll have to relay to him what you wrote here if you don't mind. Been trying to get him to come over and post here but he's stuck in the liberal echo chamber for some reason. :)
     
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    Nightmare515 Ragin' Cajun Staff Member Past Donor

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    Absolutely, let your friend know, let everyone know. It's important for black folks to understand that they are not alone in holding such beliefs. A LOT of black people are way more conservative than at heart than pop culture will lead you to believe, the problem is that social and community pressure keeps many of them from openly stating it due to fear of reprisal and being outcast. It's "unacceptable" to be a white conservative in the mainstream in today's day and age but it's a mortal sin to be a black one.

    The funny thing is that it's not unique at all. A huge chunk of my family lives in inner city Baltimore and has for over 6 decades. For those unfamiliar Baltimore goes back and forth with Chicago and these other bad inner cities as to who gets to be the murder capital of America at any given year. All of my family are Democrat voters and openly state the same false narrative that every Republican is a racist and the reason why their city is so bad is because the white man hates black people blah blah blah. The hilarious thing is that whenever I actually sit down and talk to these people their entire narrative changes. They agree with almost every single thing I ever say and it's not even hard to get to that point because I simply ask direct questions. Almost all of them think the same exact way I do. But here's the problem...

    They'll agree with me in private. In public hell no. It's actually funny to me whenever I go visit and we are among a group of friends and one of them brings up politics or social issues. Watching the nervousness and border line sheer terror in my mothers and her friends eyes and she bites her lip looking at me wondering what I'm going to say. I'm no fool, for her sake I rarely every talk much because I don't want to put them in the awkward position of agreeing with me and offending their friends or trying to not agree with me when they agree with me in private and wondering if I'm going to call them out for it. I don't have to live there among these people, I understand the weird situation they are in, it's hard to go against the established narrative in inner cities like this.

    Few black people have the courage to stand up and openly hold such positions due to community backlash. It's understandable, trust me I know. I've been completely outcast from a huge chunk of my family, mainly my cousins who openly mocked me and refuse to talk to me and even went so far as to tell our younger coming of age cousins never to talk to me. I've lost friends I grew up with who refuse to talk to me. I've been openly called every name in the book from uncle tom to white boy to sellout to way worse that are not appropriate to say on this forum. All for the mortal sin of having the audacity to vote for and openly support who I did during the past two Presidential elections. Few people want to deal with that so they keep quiet. Me? I couldn't care less.

    I will unapologetically hold my beliefs and not be bullied or intimidated by anybody. I will wear my variety of hats with American Flags or the American birthday on it proudly in public and I will laugh directly in your face if you have a problem with it I don't give a damn if you look like me or not. Shun me and I will turn around and give you both middle fingers and smile.

    9 dead and 43 injured in one damn weekend in Chicago...You think black people honestly believe this is fine? Or that this is the white mans fault? Hell no they don't, they know damn well what the problem is but they can't say it out loud because it goes against the acceptable narrative. So once again for other races who can't say it because it's socially illegal to say it and for black people out there who can't say it out of fear of being ostracized I'll say it for you. Throw the knives at me I'll take them all in stride.

    LOCK THESE PEOPLE UP FOR LIFE. Yes they ARE like 99% black people but that means NOTHING. LOCK THEM UP. NOBODY should be allowed to act this way and NO amount of past historical issues makes this ok.
     
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    Thank you. I will. I still maintain P/M contact with some from the other forum. I've brought a few over, and for now, some are still not willing to change forums, but who knows, maybe they will give it a shot. I know I had trouble getting used to P/F but I gave it a shot, and I feel very comfortable here. I will try again to convince him to come on over. I am sure he will appreciate your right to the point postings. :) Even if he doesn't come over, he will appreciate how you think.
     
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