More Than A Dozen Shot In Chicago Overnight (where's potus?)

CBS2Chicago ^ | 7-29-09

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7 Victims In One Attack; Total Of 14 Hurt Over Four Hours

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At least 14 people were shot and wounded in Chicago overnight, seven of them in a single incident on the city's West Side.

In that incident, police were called to the scene of a shooting at Walnut Street and Homan Boulevard at 10:43 p.m.

Seven people were shot, according to Fire Media Affairs Dir. Larry Langford, who said six people were initially hospitalized in critical condition and one person, an adult man, was taken in stable condition after suffering a graze wound.

One person was found shot inside a grocery store and the six others were found within a half-block radius of the store, Langford said.

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Out of control. Something's got to give.

Chicago Police Scanner

[TornadoAlley3]

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[WOBBLY BOB]

Obviously not enough gun control laws or trigger locks available...

[C210N]

But, what everybody wants to really know...
Did anybody act stupidly?

[GenY Republican]

Umm why is this happening?

[blam]

Would I be a racist if I guessed Black males were involved?

[Earthdweller]

Barry’s great Chicago organization in action.

[RichInOC]

Never mind Barry. Where’s Rich Daley?

[mysterio]

Umm why is this happening?

Because Prohibition II doesn't work any better than Prohibition I did.

[NativeNewYorker]

I bet you’re safer in Gaza City.

[autumnraine]

Didn’t this just happen a few weeks ago too? I vaguely remember something about close to a dozen people murdered in Chicago in one night.

[swain_forkbeard]

Not enough community organizers.

[agere_contra]

The witness descriptions are all of ‘males’ - but all oddly monochrome.

No suspects in custody yet.

[Lurker]

It's now official. You're safer in Baghdad than you are in the City of Chicago.

L

[from occupied ga]

Obviously the answer is more gun control (if you’re a democrat). A total prohibition on the law abiding should work wonders (oh wait, Chicago already has one of those for handguns - I guess it is the “ready availablilty of guns in Virginia, Alabama, and Georgia” that is causing the problem) < /sarcasm - do I really need this?>

[TSgt]

I wish there was a US map that was updated daily with all of the shootings and murders in a given 24 hour period.

Realtime vs. waiting for 2 year old FBI crime reports.

[TexasCajun]

Baghdad is safer than Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta & New Orleans!

[markomalley]

Bush’s fault

[earlJam]

At least 14 people were shot and wounded

Wow. People were shot dead AND wounded?

[TSgt]

Something like this:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/crime/homicidemap/