Posted on 03/31/2013 5:09:54 AM PDT by RugerMini14
Yep you were Indy. Not an area civilized folks want to walk around in much especially at night and in the summer. The problem is that the Bla.... uh, Amish yutes have figured out there is better pickins’ outside the ‘hood’ so they are branching into new neighborhoods.
np
I am actually in DC right now — avoiding the “L” means avoiding the “Liberals” (all but impossible) LOL
Not sure when I am headed back to Chicago but I am going to take all the advice I got her seriously.
ISRA Press Release:
One Rampage Too Many - Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy Has To Go
CHICAGO, March 31, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following was released today by the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA):
The ISRA is once again calling upon Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to fire Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy . This latest call for McCarthy’s ouster comes after a mob of young thugs - estimated to be in the hundreds - swarmed the Magnificent Mile shopping district Saturday night and began beating dozens of innocent shoppers. This latest mob action appears to be the most serious in a string of events over the past two years involving gangs of youths randomly attacking shoppers on North Michigan Avenue.
“Just like dyeing the Chicago River green on St. Patty’s Day, cracking tourists’ heads on North Michigan Avenue is becoming a Windy City tradition,” commented ISRA Executive Director, Richard Pearson . “The first warm night of the year, and all hell breaks loose in the city’s most tony shopping district. It should be clear to everybody by now that Supt. McCarthy has lost control of the city. What are things going to be like when the weather really heats up? What has to happen before Emanuel wakes up and gives the nod to a more effective top cop?”
“The ISRA has been cautioning folks against making Chicago a leisure time destination for a few years now,” continued Pearson. “Unless you’re the kind of person who wants to be terrorized, beaten, raped or robbed, then you should definitely find another place to vacation. For the law-abiding citizen, Chicago has become just too dangerous to visit.”
“While vicious mobs have been busily destroying Chicago’s tourism industry, Mayor Emanuel and Supt. McCarthy have been busy as well – vilifying law abiding firearm owners,” said Pearson. “If they spent more time thwarting crime and less time trying to take guns away from hunters and sportsmen, then Chicago might be a better place in which to live and work.”
“The sad events of Saturday night will certainly bolster efforts to pass concealed carry legislation down in Springfield,” said Pearson. “Good people have a right to defend themselves against lawless thugs. I’m positive that the prospect of encountering armed citizens would make such flash mobs vaporize in a hurry.”
The ISRA is the state’s leading advocate of safe, lawful and responsible firearms ownership. For more than a century, the ISRA has represented the interests of millions of law-abiding Illinois firearm owners.
Cook County begins $25 gun tax
By Associated Press
Cook County has begun charging a controversial $25 tax on every gun purchased in the county.
The tax, which took effect Monday, is expected to raise about $600,000 this year.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle proposed the levy as part her $2.9 billion budget, saying it’d be a way to make up some of the costs of gun violence.
But the extra tax, which only applies to guns bought outside the city of Chicago, isn’t without controversy.
A group of Chicago-area gun shops and gun owners sued last month, saying the new tax violates the right to bear arms.
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130401/business/704019914/
I live near the Houston metro area. The media here self-censors to the point no one reads it anymore; half the town could be in riot lock-down and no one would know about it. All we really know is to avoid the downtown after dark and any/all of the parks unless your packin’ or with a large group of similarly armed individuals. 50% or more of the “residents” flee the area for rural domains on friday and drive back to their bunkers on Sunday to be at work on Monday.
ISRA Press Release:
One Rampage Too Many - Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy Has To Go
CHICAGO, March 31, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following was released today by the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA):
The ISRA is once again calling upon Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to fire Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy . This latest call for McCarthy’s ouster comes after a mob of young thugs - estimated to be in the hundreds - swarmed the Magnificent Mile shopping district Saturday night and began beating dozens of innocent shoppers. This latest mob action appears to be the most serious in a string of events over the past two years involving gangs of youths randomly attacking shoppers on North Michigan Avenue.
“Just like dyeing the Chicago River green on St. Patty’s Day, cracking tourists’ heads on North Michigan Avenue is becoming a Windy City tradition,” commented ISRA Executive Director, Richard Pearson . “The first warm night of the year, and all hell breaks loose in the city’s most tony shopping district. It should be clear to everybody by now that Supt. McCarthy has lost control of the city. What are things going to be like when the weather really heats up? What has to happen before Emanuel wakes up and gives the nod to a more effective top cop?”
“The ISRA has been cautioning folks against making Chicago a leisure time destination for a few years now,” continued Pearson. “Unless you’re the kind of person who wants to be terrorized, beaten, raped or robbed, then you should definitely find another place to vacation. For the law-abiding citizen, Chicago has become just too dangerous to visit.”
“While vicious mobs have been busily destroying Chicago’s tourism industry, Mayor Emanuel and Supt. McCarthy have been busy as well – vilifying law abiding firearm owners,” said Pearson. “If they spent more time thwarting crime and less time trying to take guns away from hunters and sportsmen, then Chicago might be a better place in which to live and work.”
“The sad events of Saturday night will certainly bolster efforts to pass concealed carry legislation down in Springfield,” said Pearson. “Good people have a right to defend themselves against lawless thugs. I’m positive that the prospect of encountering armed citizens would make such flash mobs vaporize in a hurry.”
The ISRA is the state’s leading advocate of safe, lawful and responsible firearms ownership. For more than a century, the ISRA has represented the interests of millions of law-abiding Illinois firearm owners.
This is one reason I’ll probably never buy a house. Here in L.A. they would like to build a rail that will move people from downtown through West Hollywood and Beverly Hills. There’s already a bus system, but it’s very slow, and thugs seem to prefer subways. If that happens, and crime starts to go up, and tagging becomes the norm in my neighborhood, I want to be able to up and leave within months. I’m sure I’m not the only one who considers that sort of thing when they contemplate the eternal buy-vs-rent conundrum: Do you want to invest in an area that will go down and you’ll either be trapped there, or go broke trying to escape?
They have to put a stop to these pre-Dingus Day celebrations. You just cannot trust these Polish people to behave.
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