Illinois Congressman: Poverty Plays A Large Role In Chicago Gun Violence

National Public Radio ^ | January 7, 2017 | Staff

[Paladin2]

“Chicano” drug peeps too.

[Mack the knife]

So the black youth unemployment rate is at about 50%.

What is the “undocumented immigrant” employment rate in the same area? Think there might be a correlation?

And how many of these unemployed youths have an active father figure in their lives?

And what percentage of these youths actually graduated from high school, or even went back to get a GED?

And how many of these unemployed youths were arrested for some crime while in possession of a gun, and were not prosecuted for a minimum 5 years?

By all means, blame the availability of guns ... and then go to your opium den and dream on ...

[Paladin2]

Chiraq needs to institute a Civil Society instead of their ‘Rat Urban Utopia.

[Paladin2]

It’s a better life to not be a cornered ‘rat.

[ichabod1]

I figure anytime the govt wants to shut down their little riots all they have to do is turn off the cell towers, disrupt their little command and control operation and round them up. But they don’t. So, my question is, since the authorities are not controlling South and West Chicago, who is?

[ichabod1]

I don’t even think you can say that. I think they are worse because there is no core in the middle in those areas who still know right from wrong. There used to be a poor but stable middle black class and those that went bad knew they were wrong.

OK, from what I’m seeing these days, it seems that if there hadn’t been white community involvement (read: KKK), the blacks would not have behaved with some semblance of order even back then. I would love to be corrected on this, but it seems like since the klan was neutered, everything they warned against has come to pass.

[Freestate316]

Odd, my dad grew up in dire poverty in West Philly during the Depression, living in condemned houses and eating out of the garbage. My mom grew up picking cotton in Alabama, living in a house with no electricity or indoor plumbing. Of the 13 kids on both sides, only one was not successful. Guns were everywhere down there, yet gun violence was unheard of. My dad said when he was a kid, crime in Philly was very low. If poverty is a factor,why wasn’t gun violence off the charts during the worst economic times of our nation’s history?

[dowcaet]

And which party is responsible for putting a good many people on the south side of the Windy City into never ending poverty Danny? I can tell you it’s not those people with a R by their name. The Democrats made Chicago a mess and they own it!

[FlingWingFlyer]

Yo Danny! If “poverty” is such a big problem, why do you lousy bastards on the left continue to import it into America?

[FreedomPoster]

Please explain the difference between the murder rates in Chicago and, say, Appalachia.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Poor white people aren’t shooting each other over a perceived insult/

[hadaclueonce]

So Danny, who wants to keep your relatives locked up on the plantation called Chicago?

[Navy Patriot]

MARTIN: But the question I have is they were all 15 and 16 years old, why did a fight over borrowed clothing, like, you know, somebody borrowed somebody's pants and they wanted their pants back result in somebody shooting somebody?

DAVIS: Because it's more than that. They had overall frustration and a sense of machoism that required a helpless White kid to be available for torture, and none was.

MARTIN: That's Congressman Danny Davis. He's an Illinois Democrat. He represents the 7th Congressional District in Chicago.

[Paladin2]

" it seems like since the klan was neutered, everything they warned against has come to pass."

The 'Rats are NEVER right.

[Chode]

now now, no sense dragging logic into this...

[WMarshal]

I grew up knowing many fine individuals who were poor but they were upstanding, honest, good people. What is ailing the inner city isn’t poverty, it is the culture of victimhood, dependency, despair, and lack of conscience that the Democrat party has been pushing since before World War I. Mark my words, poverty and violence are the symptoms of the disease spread by socialism and the Democrat Party in all areas that they have controlled for generations.

[umgud]

will there be Obama-phones after Obama leaves?

[Jane Long]

Great questions.

Praying a Trump admin puts the kibosh on this FreePhone/organizer tool nonsense.

[A CA Guy]

Lots of poor all over America and none of the other poor kill like Obama’s son’s tend to IMO.

[Robert357]

Yes and no. Yes, unemployment and poverty are very high in some neighborhoods, and gangs and drug dealing prospers in such places. Part of why it prospers is that people don't take personal responsibility, don't value education, don't value human life, and don't feel they need to work hard to get a head.

Is it poverty that is the root cause? No. It is broken homes and lack of taking personal responsibility. I feel that the loss of the central role of religion in most inner cities is also a big part of the decay.