Violent weekend in Chicago

[SteveBailey]

At least the gangbangers are shooting each other, primarily. It would be nice if they could kill each other without collateral damage.

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/chicago.weekend.violence.2.704117.html

Chicago has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country.  Glad to see it's working so well.   

[SIK1]

At least the gangbangers are shooting each other, primarily. It would be nice if they could kill each other without collateral damage.

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/chicago.weekend.violence.2.704117.html

Chicago has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country.  Glad to see it's working so well.   

Yep, I'm sure the law abiding citizens are unarmed.

[wrongwayric]

Yep pretty sad up there, thank goodness i live 100 miles away. The problem is the gang bangers and drug pushers are moving out out of the cities. We just had the largest drug bust in our counties history a few weeks ago. 2 of the guys busted lived here in the same town i do! Nice to see american law abideing citizens restricted from owning handguns and the criminals so well armed.

[SteveBailey]

Yep, I'm sure the law abiding citizens are unarmed.

All the law abiding citizens are unarmed, at least as far as handguns go.  If they own one, they aren't law abiding.

[Rich46yo]

Ive seen weekends with a dozen or more kilt. Things is you have to be hit really hard to be put down for good here. Ive seen em lose their blood pressure in the bambulance, CFD keep some blood pumping on the ride into trauma, then they open em up like chickens and kick start the heart directly. Then its right into emergency surgery and the taxpayer ends up eating the bill for county ER doing their Lazarus thing all to keep an 18 yo gangsta alive and in operation for another round of gagsta'ing.

[SIK1]

Maybe the first tat a gangsta should get is DNR across their forehead.

[Ripsnort]

Violent cultures begin with parenting.

[SteveBailey]

Maybe the first tat a gangsta should get is DNR across their forehead.

lol should be a requirement.

[SteveBailey]

Violent cultures begin with parenting.

peers have something to do with it too, unfortunately.

[Slash27]

Maybe the first tat a gangsta should get is DNR across their forehead.

[Thruster]

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. A couple of incidents happened in an area that went through an anti alcohol campaign a few years back. That was supposed to help clean up the area. It was also where the greatest resistance to a few anti-gang ordinances that were suggested. Now their sober and Poscar'ed off. There was even an incident in the governor's neighborhood.

Now we have an earlier curfew for minors and if we're lucky soon those danged little baggies will be outlawed, all we need to do is add a few dozen more warm bodies to the "gang task force" and that should do the trick.

WTFG Daley.

[lazs2]

During that same time I bet a thousand moving violations were handed out to middle class family types and there was backup at every stop.

We also have tens of thousands of alphabet soup ninjas who break in the doors of middle class homes in good neighborhoods in the middle of the night while pretending the bad sections of town don't exist.

Do any of you think you would feel safer in chicago if they passed more gun bans or would you rather be armed?

lazs

[Shuffler]

Gangs exist for the weak. Most folks can stand on their own..... folks in gangs need support.

[Thruster]

Sorry to disappoint you Lazs, but I doubt it. You forget we're talking about Chicago, they have to get REAL bored to make a traffic stop. And just about the only middle class we have left here works for the city, but they get diplomatic immunity. The CPD knows full well where the bad sections of town are. They avoid 'em like the plague. But we do have these nifty surveillance cameras up all over the shady parts of town so they can see what the bad guys are doing. Most of them anyway.

I for one feel better being armed in this town. Problem is, if I can get a gun then so can everybody else. The idea of some of these yahoos having easy access to deadly force kinda scares me. At least now I can ID potential problems on sight alone.

[wrongwayric]

Update. Since friday till monday morning 38 shootings in chicago.