Posted on 09/20/2013 2:25:21 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel condemned a Thursday night shooting on Chicago’s South Side that wounded 13 people, including a three-year-old boy.
“Senseless and brazen acts of violence have no place in Chicago and betray all that we stand for,” said Obama’s former chief of staff in the first of a series of tweets Friday morning.
“The perpetrators of this crime will be brought to justice and prosecuted to the full extent of the law,” Emanuel added.
Witnesses said several gunmen fired at least 20 shots at a group on basketball courts, according to NBC News’s Chicago affiliate. The station said Emanuel returned to Chicago from Washington, D.C., after news of the shooting broke, canceling meetings he had scheduled with officials in President Obama’s Cabinet.
Chicago has experienced a spate of gun and gang-related violence in recent years. Just this week, the FBI released new crime statistics that deemed Chicago the nation’s murder capital, surpassing New York.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a Democrat from Illinois, said the shooting shows the need for Congress to act on gun control.
“Congress must act now to pass gun safety legislation that protects our children, families and our communities,” Schakowsky said in a statement Friday morning.
The country has seen two mass shootings this week, Schakowsky said, referring to the attack Monday at Washington’s Navy Yard that left 12 victims dead.
“At what point do we act?” she said. “How many more innocent lives have to be taken until Congress is forced to do something? These questions should no longer go unanswered. I am outraged and angered that gun violence continues to affect the lives of innocent people.”
None of this will be in the news because liberals don’t care that blacks are gunning down other blacks. All the years that the Crips and Bloods were gangbanging, you never heard a peep from people like Feinstein.
spate [speyt] noun 1. a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring: a spate of angry words.
Please note that "spates" in Chicago last for years and years.
But that's not too hard to comprehend, is it? How could it be otherwise when you have people like this proposing solutions?
>>Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a Democrat from Democratically controlled Chicago which is part of Democratically controlled Cook County which is part of Democratically controlled Illinois, said the shooting shows the need for Congress to act on unConstitutional gun control. >>
Italics added to highlight the inconveniently omitted.
Every night, why doesn’t everyone go out on the porch and fire a shotgun in the air? Biden says that will work.
Hey Rahm!
What have you done about those 500 murders last year?
Why are you getting all upset about these people getting wounded?
Timing?
Opportunity?
You don’t like the weapon that was used?
“I am outraged and angered that gun violence continues to affect the lives of innocent people.”
So, once all of you innocent people turn your guns into the government, everyone will be safe again.
Schakowsky must be a little “slow” as they say in Chicago.
Let me spell it out for you Jan, since you seem to have logic skills in the lower 10 percentile.
Chicago lots of gun control, lots of shootings.
States with low gun control, few shootings.
Learn it. Know it. Live it.
I now understand why Chicago is called “The Windy City”....
It is from all those bullets whizzing through the city.
Oh yeah, and your Chief of Police is blaming the guns....
And the problem is....?
This says it all: “said Obama’s former chief of staff in the first of a series of tweets Friday morning.”
Leftists are gutless cowards. Rahm doesn’t have the guts to crawl out of his fascist fortress and comfort the grieving family of the 3-year-old who was shot. He tweets like a chicken. When TSHF, it will be our duty to dig these rats out of their holes and introduce them to the real world.
Incidentally, FUNSA
How much has Chicago shooting increased under Rahm”s rule???
They do, at least temporarily, have a lot of the guns locked down. Problem is they don’t have most of the Trayvons and Leshauns who were caught illegally packing locked down. Then, duhhh, the Trayvons and Leshauns just find a few more and keep on murdering people.
“The perpetrators of this crime will be brought to justice....”
First you have the desire to catch them, then you have to have guts to arrest them, but if their your bro’s, forgetaboutit!
What does else Chicago stand for other than senseless and brazen acts of violence?
It was probably the Chicongo Police that did this. /s
But, but if we had universal background checks it would keep the criminals from getting guns. /s
But, but, but wouldn't a few hundred new gun control laws solve the problem?
Paper Lace-The Night Chicago Died
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXY1_F5YkoM
They will have to look to history to end this.
And I CONDEMN Rahm Emaneul.
Now everyone's been condemned and we're now finished PONTIFICATING... the shootings can and WILL continue.
These LIBERAL a$$holes can TALK up a storm and posture their a$$ off but NEVER seem to SOLVE the problem. That's WHAT should be CONDEMNED.
I think Rahman and Obama need to go into Crip territory and start up Midnight Basketball. .
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