Sometimes I wonder WTF Rahm Emmanuel is doing. Chicago is fucked and he seems unable to do anything about it. Hell, David Dinkins was able to turn NYC around in a little over three years, and that city is three or four times larger than Chicago. I saw somewhere that, over the last 10 years, the number of homicides in Chicago have actually ecplipsed the number of American combat fatalities in Iraq and Afghanistan during the same time period. While we're obviously dealing with different populations and other factors, the fact that more people are dying in an American city than in active war zones is a sobering thought.
Modern gun control is a direct result of gang violence in Chicago.
Only the names of the gangs has changed, they are still a bunch of thugs killing each other off.
I wouldn't waste resources looking for anyone's killer/shooter.
They won't cooperate with the cops (I 'ain't no snitch), but want the cops to find/arrest the bad guys/gals.
Then they bitch because the cops arrested a black man/woman (arrest a white guy, even though I told the cops my shooter was black).
I grew up in S. Chicago, and then the South Suburbs (close to
@Cabbage Head 's ao).
I've been back three times since 1983.
TDY in rantoul, and I came home to see my sister (last time I made that mistake)
Grandfather's funeral (RIP Grandpa Stack)
Overnight layover when I saw an old friend (hotel taxes were 50% of the bill).
It's easier to blame gun owners, they tend to be white, aka the unprotected class; never blame the shooter, the rioter, the looter, always blame the victim.
Chicago is the next Detroit, fuck 'em I won't shed any tears.
