Yes, I am worried in the near future my neighborhood will turn into the latest "Chicago". The neighborhood where I was born and came from is now a slum filled with over 78 different nationalities which has a shit ton of gangs and drug use and shootings. Thank God my dad got us out of there when I was a kid, it would be horrible to still be living there. The white people that are still there must be scared as hell. Yes, I do worry about my neighborhood I live in now as I see that this can happen anywhere over time. I do not worry about any white mass shootings as there has never even been ONE in the state where I live. But there have been many shootings from minorities and a couple by white people.
Yeah, they are worried in Chicago about the increasing crime rate in the downtown area of Chicago. https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/loc...ntown-residents-worry-as-crime-soars/2321805/ wrbtrader
there is a mass shooting every weekend in a black city. guess what? its blacks doing the shootings and butchering other blacks. blacks are being hunted down like animals and then slaughtered by other blacks.
Yes, increasing crime is probably a problem in a lot of big cities. Hopefully they can find answers to decrease it. Business's leaving because of it would not be a good thing for the cities.
Stolen and there's a lot of gun shops / stores in the nearby suburbs of Chicago. In addition, Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri and Kentucky (cross state purchases) sell a lot of weapons to Illinois residents. In fact, those neighbouring states are big gun traffickers of guns to the Chicago area. Strangely, I don't think there are any gun stores in Chicago city area. The NRA has a big market in those states that help create a different problem that's manifesting today in high crime in cities all over America especially Chicago. Yet, even without the legal stores (federally licensed), NRA, robbery (stealing guns)...there's a huge underground market of weapons being trafficked all over the U.S. and Chicago is a big user of that underground gun market. I think (could be wrong) that the current law that has been in place for decades does not require gun dealers to report gun sales even to someone that has had a background check. There was a big fight with that "background check law" but it was only passed when they agree to not require gun dealers to report an actual sale to someone that had a background check. Wyoming, Alaska, South Dakota and West Virginia are big states in gun sales. Here's an alarming or revealing stats...about 95% of the guns used in Chicago's shootings...its via a gun not used by the original owner. Only about 20% are traced back to gun dealers that actually sold the gun to a shooter. By the way, most of the arrests in Chicago shootings are people that are illegally possessing a gun. Most of these gun dealers, stores that sell these guns are White business owners. Also, statistically, most weapons reported stolen are White residential owners. In my opinion, break that connection with the gun dealers...you're on your way to fixing the problem with the shootings in Chicago via guns. wrbtrader
Well, I am all for gun regulation so people with criminal backgrounds or the mentally ill can not get ahold of guns. They seem to be the ones who use guns in a bad way. I am against taking guns out of the hands of responsible owners that need them to defend themselves. It seems a lot of the guns that are used for criminal acts are not owned by the original owner as you say. The authorities need to work on this problem the most from what I can see. As a majority of businesses are owned by white people it makes sense that a lot of guns are sold by white business owners. And the same for guns reported stolen by white residential owners, most guns are probably owned by white people. IF you look at it this way, the start of the chain of illegal gun activity is the dang white people!
Its just statistical information. Its similar to saying a majority of the people living in the inner city of Chicago are shot by a Latino or Black because Latinos / Blacks live in the inner city. Also, its the same as crime in mostly white neighbourhoods in that most of the crime there are committed by white people even in shootings. The problem is the media will create a big story if a Latino / Black person goes into a White community and commits a crime or a White person goes into a Latino / Black community to commit a crime...yeah the latter happens too. More truth, if the majority of gun dealers were Blacks or Latinos...I think laws would have been put in place to minimize the gun sales. The NRA may not put up as much of a fight via spending millions of dollars every year to lobby congress to prevent such types of laws. wrbtrader
Welcome to Chicago... The city where you cannot even walk more than 100 feet from the door of the jail after being released --- without being shot 64 times. And BTW shootings outside the jail are a regular occurrence. Local rapper who had ‘just been released’ from Cook County Jail suffered as many as 64 bullet wounds in fatal shooting across the street from jail, police say https://www.chicagotribune.com/news...0210712-qs5lfbuepfb2lpyjn6lbbydghy-story.html
No wonder the shootings continue unabated in Chicago. Where are the prosecutions? Chicago shooting: Lightfoot, prosecutor Foxx exchange war of words over no charges filed in gang gunfight Chicago gunfight caught on camera shows gang members shoot into house, prompting return fire https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-mayor-lightfoot-prosecutor-gang-shooting-no-charges-war-of-words Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is lashing out at Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx for citing "mutual combatants" in her decision not to press charges against those arrested in a deadly daylight neighborhood shootout caught on camera last week between rival gang members. "She's got to explain to the public, why? Given that evidence, a pod camera right there that captured the entire thing and police officers on the scene in uniform, and a squad car there, why that isn't enough?" Lightfoot said at a press conference Monday. "If the bad guys that are out there that are picking up guns and shooting without any regard for the sanctity of life, do not believe that there's accountability for them, the brazenness will not end. It will escalate, it will continue and our communities will not be safe." One person was killed and five others were taken into custody and later released in connection to the shootout that happened in the Austin neighborhood Friday on the city’s West Side. Three gang members began shooting into a single-family home in broad daylight in an effort to draw out members of an opposing gang faction. Three individuals inside returned fire, killing one of the offenders outside. More than 70 rounds of shells were recovered from the shooting captured by a city camera, and a set of uniformed officers in a marked squad car were also on the scene within a short period of time and witnessed the activity, Lightfoot, as well as five alderman, in a letter obtained by Fox 32, implored Foxx to reconsider felony charges, like attempted murder, at least against the two surviving initial aggressors. Those inside the house refused to come out and a SWAT team was called, giving the three time to get rid of all their guns and clean up any remaining evidence, the letter says. Several gun cases, but no weapons, were found, a fact the mayor and alderman say alone warrants further investigation. "Having looked at this, gotten a deep understanding from the detectives that were doing the investigation, it’s really hard to understand that decision," Lightfoot continued at her press conference Monday. "It’s complicated, for sure. But we really urge the State’s Attorney herself to get personally involved, look at the evidence, and I believe that there are charges that can be brought at a minimum against the individuals who initiated the gunfire." "We can't live in a world where there is no accountability," the mayor said. "When there's no accountability, meaning individuals who wreak havoc, who fire indiscriminately or fire at a target but without any regard for the sanctity of life and the health and well-being of others, if they do not feel like the criminal justice system is going to hold them accountable, we're going to see a level of brazenness that will send the city into chaos. We cannot let that happen." Foxx defended her office’s decision in a statement released later Monday, saying Lightfoot, as a former federal prosecutor, should know better than trying cases in the media without sufficient evidence. "As a former federal prosecutor, the mayor knows of the ethical obligation of the prosecutor to only bring forth charges where the facts, evidence and law support it," Foxx said. "She is also fully aware that as a prosecutor we are obligated not to try cases in the media. It is unclear why she has chosen to make such statements, especially absent the full information that was presented to our office by CPD." "The facts the mayor presented today simply are not in line with what was presented to us by CPD, and not born out by the evidence we received," the state prosecutor continued. "The staggering violence that is devastating our communities is horrific, however, we must still adhere to both our ethical and legal standards in evaluating charges. As a former prosecutor, she knows that." Foxx explained that detectives had reached out to her office on Friday "and acknowledged at the outset that given the chaotic nature at the scene they were unable to determine how the events unfolded." "We reviewed the evidence that was presented to us in consultation with the detectives and they agreed we were unable to approve charges based on the evidence presented," she wrote. "However, as always, as additional evidence is gathered we stand ready to bring charges when appropriate." Foxx reportedly initially cited "mutual combatants" in her decision not to press charges, a legal term referring to when both parties enter into a fight willingly upon equal terms. But the mayor and alderman wrote in their letter Monday that from their perspective, "the individuals who initiated the gunfire are not ‘mutual combatants’ and certainly weren’t firing in self-defense."