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Bring up the Chicago violence subject, and people shrug their shoulders and say, "Yep..it's terrible. Did the CUBS win last night??".
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: angeldoll
And how are you going to seize all their guns?
Most of them are illegal, meaning you wouldn't know where to begin looking for them. The only guns you would have a clue where to find them are the ones owned by legal owners (of which there are few in Chicago), and they usually aren't going to be the 15 and 16 year olds shooting each other on weekends.
originally posted by: reldra
a reply to: xuenchen
Well, if there were less guns, less people woiuld be shot. You can't empty the city of people, who are aparently shooting. You have to remove the guns.
originally posted by: reldra
originally posted by: stonerwilliam
a reply to: Jaxsmash
Time for some tough love in Chicago to combat the violence going on , Put the national guard in on street corners and drud test for benefits and gun buy backs
I support buy backs and support from the National Guard. Drug tests are really far afield from this.
In 1993 Californians became fed up with unrestrained violence, and pushed their legislature to enact California’s “three strikes” law which permanently incarcerated repeat offenders with a focus on the violent ones. Then in 1996, they enacted 10-20-Life, also known as the “use a gun and you’re done” law. A point in time when thugs started going to jail for life; removing them from the streets, taking them away from the ATM you visit and ridding many inner cities of very violent influences. This is evidently unimportant to the culturally sensitive. So is the truth. Gun violence is not a problem without solutions. We now know what works.
originally posted by: DonVoigt
a reply to: syrinx high priest
The reason nobody cares about these shootings and deaths in Chicago is because all of what the rest of the world sees with this violence is concentrated in 5 small neighborhoods, there are 3 million people in Chicago city limits and 9 million in the greater Chicago area what we refer to as the tristate area. There is a number of reason here that nobody cares. These are gangbanging drug dealers that nobody cares about anyway. It is virtually all black on black crime. The 5 neighborhoods where this happens are a lot smaller than you think, other than the gangs, people here in Chicago are more concerned about protecting their family's and loved ones and we don't care about any of these thugs. Some of us are desperately fighting to get away from this corrupt city, but it's hard for and honest descent person to get ahead in this city. There is so much corruption that there is no fixing it. Being honest from a citizens point of view, we wouldn't care or complain if the military were to go into these neighborhoods and remove this cancer with toe tags.
originally posted by: ksiezyc
a reply to: MikeA
It's going a bit far to call them murderers...Unless they killed someone they aren't murderers. This seems to be a bit an emotional topic for you based on some of your language. I may be wrong though.
originally posted by: DonVoigt
a reply to: MikeA
I don't have kids yet and I would do those things, however living my entire life in Chicago, I have witnessed to much of this stuff and like the rest of this city I don't care about these thugs I avoid those parts of the city like the plague.