Posted on 03/31/2012 6:50:54 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
We need to talk about the epidemic of violence that is raging on the streets of Chicago.
The numbers can only be described as terrifying.
Thirteen people were shot and two killed in six hours on Thursday. There have been 23 murders in the past two weeks, and 117 already this year.
Chicago's murder rate is up 56 percent over last year.
The people of Chicago are caught in the crossfire, and we are going to take an in-depth look at the violence.
Why is it happening?
Who is to blame?
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxchicago.com ...
It is his City
Hey, I’ve got an idea! Maybe Chicago should ban private ownership of firearms! Uh. Oh. That’s right ... never mind.
“Maybe Chicago should ban private ownership of firearms!”
Maybe chicago should make murder against the law and mean it! Of course, dead people in chicago are part of the dhimmiecrat voter base. AHA! I think maybe I’m on to something here!
According to the article, they turn to Master Demon, Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina’s Hell for answers.
The rage hate artist will make everything better as soon as whitey and freedom are erased from the land and everyone remaining is as evil as Pfleger.
...or Detroit.
And you know the vast majority of these killings were between white folks of Polish decent right?
And you know the vast majority of these killings were between white folks of Polish decent right?
Nine people were shot between 11:30 p.m. yesterday and 5 a.m. today, according to Chicago police, including four outside a West Side club about 3 a.m.
The Tribune does not give the race of the shooters or shootees. And this is in addition to the 13 people shot in the there Thursday. So do some checking on your own, it is easy.
“Urban Feralism” What a PERFECT term for cities of the damned!!!Or as another FReeper said yesterday: They are feral children of the welfare state.
The Martin/Zimmerman issue has an unintended consequence to the nation’s race-baiters. It is bringing to national attention the real issue of black crime.I hope you're right. I suspect the committed leftists of the MSM will do their best to gloss over it (after a moment's passing notice so as to deflect criticism away from their obvious bias) and bury it quickly.
“Can’t defend Zimmerman, I believe He murdered the kid.”
Really? You are believing the lies and distortions of the heavily biased media? The cops let him go because the evidence was quite clear Zimmerman had been attacked and beaten by TM.
There can never be peace in Chicago until we solve the Palestinian problem.
Nope. The citizens of the U.S. are to blame for those. That includes but is not limited to the citizens of Chicago.
The level of gang violence is astounding across the United States, and the only thing more shocking to me than the callousness with which murders are committed is the age of those involved. So many times I’m reading stories where the perps and victims are teens.
And it’s one thing if violent thugs want to kill each other but a lot of innocent people are getting killed. Innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire, and victims who mistakenly were identified by the shooter as rival gang members for doing nothing more than innocently wearing a piece of clothing of a certain color.
It can be such an absurd world, and I have sympathy for those who are trying to live a good life in a bad neighborhood where violence seems to keep triumphing.
Snort! Great line.
The people of the U.S. have a corrupt race baiting Socialist for a president, an out of control national debt approaching 15 trillion, wide open violent lawless borders, during war time, etc.
Is Chicago to blame?
Nope. The citizens of the U.S. are to blame
Oh I see, so it's not just Chicago?
Now ya blame the U.S. citizens like Mom and Pa in Tennessee, or Aunt Betty in Nevada? It's there fault eh?
Did ya fail to notice, the U.S. government is operating like a socialist dictatorship?
Did ya fail to notice for many years the American people voted for, begged, protested, screamed, petitioned and created large organizations in an effort to force the U.S. government to secure our sovereign borders?
Did ya fail to notice that?
Where ya beend Mr. jdsteel?
U.S. Government rolled out the red carpet for tens of millions of illegals who've all but compromised and undermined your electoral process?
That would be like this all controlling government flooding the country will 10 trillion in counterfeit money....Oh wait..Did ya fail to notice that too Mr. jdsteel?
Then throw in tens of hundreds of thousands of people imported legally into the U.S. every few months, from Socialist and Muslims countries.
Your electoral process has simply been corrupted and it was no accident.
Ya failed all this Mr. jdsteel?
So, if you're Zimmerman lying on your back with a broken nose, a gash on the back of your head that takes 19 stitches to close, screaming for help, being pummeled by a 6'2”. 160 pound, 17 year-old, and no one is responding . . . WHAT would you do in this situation reefddiver?
Would you shoot Travon to save your life or would you do the PC thing and let him kill you? Tell us what you would do. Would you be willing to die for a PC outcome?
I'm surprised that Trayvon died from the single 9mm hit, but he did. What really bothers me is this 17 year-old thug wannabe is a “victim”. Zimmerman was the one receiving the physical damage and not Trayvon Martin. It's a little difficult to sell the aggressive, premeditated murder scenario when Zimmerman was the one with all the physical damages to him — or does that matter in your world?
doesn’t matter who had a broken nose, who called for help, who was beating up who. All Stand Your Ground does is extend the castle exception from only in your own house to anywhere you have a right to be. The Castle Exception says that a person does not have the duty to retreat from an altercation before using force if he is in his own or at his workplace. In Florida, you do not have to retreat from anywhere you are allowed to be before using force.
However, Stand Your Ground does not get rid of the Initial Aggressor Exception. A person who is an initial aggressor can not later plead self defense. The only necessary fact is who started the initial confrontation. If Zimmerman confronted Martin, Zimmerman is the initial aggressor and cannot use self defense. This is because, at the time that Zimmerman made that first confrontation, Trayvon then had the right to avail the Stand Your Ground law. When you have two people Standing their Ground (ridiculous, I know) you have no one standing their ground. It is then just a fight. If someone dies in the course of mutual combat, the other person gets charged with manslaughter.
The only relevant facts are those surrounding the initial confrontation between the two. Not anything that happened after.
As an adult, I make it a habbit of leaving police work to the cops. My and my wifes guns protect this farm, and are used at the range.
The “confrontation” appears accidental, the first exchange nonthreatening or neutral, and the younger person appears to have attacked the older one for no apparent reason; therefore, it's the older guy's fault for being there in the first place?
If Zimmerman wasn't there he wouldn't have been attacked, wouldn't have been a victim, wouldn't have been beaten, and wouldn't have shot Martin. Got it.
Trayvon is good because he's Black, 17, and a perfect angel; Zimmerman is evil, 28, and a Hispanic murderer cruising his neighborhood looking for people to kill.
Or, Zimmerman should have known that Trayvon was looking to hurt anybody who didn't “respect” him.
Trayvon is dead and Zimmerman is guilty because the MSM has said so. The MSM is unbiased and they would never lie about anything, would they? Of course not!
It's wonderful to see into the future based on 20-20 hindsight.
The truth will come out and we will see exactly what happened and when and why. I would not call Zimmerman a murderer or any anthing else at this point because there are too many unknowns.
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