Posted on 06/13/2012 6:34:33 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
(CBS News) There are 228 dead: That's the number of murders this year in Chicago. It's nearly twice as many as the number of Americans lost on the battlefields of Afghanistan over these last six months. And the number of deaths is up 35 percent over the same period last year.
There was a time it was called "gangland" Chicago and maybe that time has returned.
Chicago teen on living amid violence: "I don't expect to have a future here"
The cops tell us it's the gang members who have turned some neighborhoods into free-fire zones. More people were cut down today.
Across Chicago, nine people were killed between Friday and Sunday, and two more were gunned down just hours ago - a murder rate of two a day.
"It's tragic," Pastor Robin Hood told CBS News. "This is like Beirut was in the 70s. It's war."
Hood lives in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood, where three of the victims were killed.
"People are scared to come outdoors," Hood explains. "They're scared for their kids to sit on the porches and play in the playground. It's total fear."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
We will soon be told that if we would just put more money into solving these problems, things would improve.
The article doesn’t mention the breakdown of the black family. I would think that has made the problems worse.
I’ve said it for years: kill a known gang member on sight and you save multiple innocent lives.
Gang wars? who knew?
Where is captain obvious when you need him?
The “root” is not what they’re claiming.
Gangs didn’t propagate out of the natural laws of the universe.
Gangs form because the family structure, ie, FATHERS IN THE HOME, was destroyed by the liberal welfare system, PURPOSEFULLY.
Innocent adults and children are being hit in the crossfire. Sad this can happen in America.
Innocent adults and children are being hit in the crossfire. Sad this can happen in America.
Innocent adults and children are being hit in the crossfire. Sad this can happen in America.
Here’s a solution:
1.) Place a $500 bounty on any known gang member. Bring in an arm with a Four Corner Hustler or Latin King tatto and get a no questions asked debit card. Personally I’d double it to $1,000 if it was one of those stupid neck tattoos.
2.) Open the National Guard Armory to any honest citizen with a clean record who lives in one of these neighborhoods. Hand them a Remington 870 and 50 rounds of buckshot or an M4 and 5 full magazines.
3.) Tell the recipients of these weapons that the bounties are doubled.
Here’s the dirty little secret about the killing that’s happening in Chicago. EVERYONE knows who’s doing it. EVERYONE knows where they live. But because it’s only happening in “those” neighborhoods to “those” people, nobody gives a damn.
Once the violence spreads to Hyde Park, the Gold Coast, or the North Shore you’ll see a crackdown like you won’t believe. If it stays localized in Lawndale it’ll go on and on and on and on....
The article does not mention whether if they are black, white, Asian, or whatever. I think you may be jumping to conclusions.
I saw it on CBS last night. I am not jumping to conclusions.
chicagotribune.com
Victim: ‘They were enjoying frightening people’
Mob attacks wound Streeterville’s sense of security
John Kass
June 13, 2012
All the young doctor wanted to do was walk home from the hospital after work to his wife and child.
That walk, one he’s taken for years, takes him through the quiet and wealthy Streeterville neighborhood.
“It’s only four blocks from the hospital to my home,” the 36-year-old doctor told me. “But now I have to take a cab. Do you believe it? A cab for four blocks? I’m never going to walk it again, not after what happened to me Sunday night.”
He works at Northwestern Memorial Hospital as an attending physician. After work on Sunday, close to 10 p.m., he began his walk home, and along the way became a victim.
He crossed Chicago Avenue, then went north on the pathway through the park, past the people playing tennis on the courts to his right, then out to Dewitt Place.
“I saw the mob of them ... young teenagers, tweeners between 13 and 15 years old, like young kids you’d see at the mall,” the doctor said. “The thing I remember clearly was that they were enjoying frightening people. They went after a food delivery man on a bike. Then they went after me. It was like ‘Lord of the Flies.’
“And then they hit me with something, a hard blunt object on the back of the head, and I went down,” the doctor said.
Taken back to the hospital, he received treatment for facial wounds and received three deep stitches.
“My wife’s upset,” he said. “There was blood, but it could have been worse.”...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-met-kass-0613-20120613,0,5899407,print.column
Here’s a cheaper solution: Stop paying women to have babies out of wedlock.
“I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and — you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows — (know) this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Chicago yesterday,” said Reid.
Mogadishu with a lake.
“Gangs”...another way to say “Obama’s base.”
What liberals have done to the black family is despicable. It should outrage everyone to see John Lewis and the black caucus lauded as heroes.
This is what happens when you try to live with and ignore evil. It is a cancer.
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