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2019-09-04 Home Front: Politix
Chicago mayor rips Cruz for tweet about gun violence: 'Keep our name out of your mouth'
[The Hill] Chicago Mayor Lori "Groot" Lightfoot (D) took aim at GOP Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) after the lawmaker said a weekend uptick in violence in the city proved that "gun control doesn’t work."

"60% of illegal firearms recovered in Chicago come from outside IL ‐ mostly from states dominated by coward Republicans like you who refuse to enact commonsense gun legislation," Lightfoot tweeted late Monday. "Keep our name out of your mouth."

Lightfoot also tweeted a graph showing the top 10 source states of recovered firearms in Chicago between 2013 and 2016. Only about 40 percent came from Illinois, with the rest coming from states such as Indiana, Mississippi and Cruz’s state of Texas.

Cruz tweeted in the aftermath of a deadly shooting in Odessa, Texas, on Saturday ‐ and after 37 people were reportedly shot in Chicago over the Labor Day weekend ‐ that gun control isn’t going to reduce violence.

"Gun control doesn’t work. Look at Chicago," he tweeted on Monday. "Disarming law-abiding citizens isn’t the answer. Stopping violent criminals‐prosecuting & getting them off the street‐BEFORE they commit more violent crimes is the most effective way to reduce murder rates. Let’s protect our citizens."
Posted by Besoeker 2019-09-04 07:02|| || Front Page|| [8 views ]  Top

#1 Keep our name out of your mouth

This is hip hop talk.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-09-04 07:33||   2019-09-04 07:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Mayor Lightfoot: do Chicago cops really investigate black on black shooting?
Posted by Chereting Pelosi1889 2019-09-04 08:16||   2019-09-04 08:16|| Front Page Top

#3 For drug dealers who can read, this Lake County effort should help end the violence and keep everyone within their respective sales districts.

Daily Herald: Internally illuminated street signs, like these at the corner of St. William Drive and Butterfield Road in Libertyville, are becoming more popular in Lake County.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-09-04 08:24||   2019-09-04 08:24|| Front Page Top

#4 What a sorry piece of shit. You can't govern, so you spew hate.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-09-04 08:42||   2019-09-04 08:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Might check with your Chicago Bro Obama about moving guns across borders leading to killings.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-09-04 09:04||   2019-09-04 09:04|| Front Page Top

#6 BINASH.
Posted by Lex 2019-09-04 09:07||   2019-09-04 09:07|| Front Page Top

#7 It's not about guns, it's about ignoring the facts and continuing to look the other way. I'd liken it to Atlanta I-285 'notional' speed limits for entitlement motorists. The entire beltway is ringed with FMV (Full Motion Video) cams and 24x7 monitoring, but few are held accountable.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-09-04 09:10||   2019-09-04 09:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Urbanism is instutionalized degeneracy. If you have to work in a city that's one thing. If you choose to live there that's something else. People who talk about putting lipstick on a pig have obviously never tried that. The pig won't hold still and it just wants to eat the lipstick and the fingers holding the tube...
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-09-04 09:17||   2019-09-04 09:17|| Front Page Top

#9 ..that's not kosher.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-09-04 09:18||   2019-09-04 09:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Obama invoked executive to cover up Fast & Furious and get his AG Holder off the hook. Sheryl Attkisson said she had sources who said F & F operated in at least 10 U.S. cities. It is also said that once guns were sold under this program there was no effort made to track them. Where half of the guns ended up is unknown. Maybe the F & F program should get another look. Check with El Chapo if he is willing to talk; he might fear he will get Epsteined.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-09-04 09:30||   2019-09-04 09:30|| Front Page Top

#11 Federal Ultimatum Required.

1) Mayor Lightfoot, you have until January 1 to drop the massive casualty rate down substantially.

2) Should you miss that requirement, Marshal Law will be declared.

3) Third Armored Division will deploy.

4) Apache Helicopters will deploy.

5) Reaper Drones armed with Hell Fire missiles will deploy.

6) Known hot spot infestations of violence will be assaulted and neutralized.

7) Law abiding citizens will have their Second Amendment Rights restored.

The military deployment and Marshal Law will be in affect for one year or until reasonable stability has been established, however long that takes.
Posted by Phaick Uneretle6310 2019-09-04 09:35||   2019-09-04 09:35|| Front Page Top

#12 A friend of mine (bohemian/beatnik type, in his 70's, originally from Chitown) said when I asked him how he would take away the weapons from gangs "I'm sure if you talked to them, they would comply"..and he was serious.
Posted by Unosh Hupinelet8756 2019-09-04 10:30||   2019-09-04 10:30|| Front Page Top

#13 #11 IMO, will work about as well as nation building in Iraq
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-09-04 10:52||   2019-09-04 10:52|| Front Page Top

#14 ...well, Sherman burned Atlanta. Didn't seem to help. I'll default to B on that one.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-09-04 11:30||   2019-09-04 11:30|| Front Page Top

#15 Actually, Atlanta and it's rail yards and stores (for obvious logistical reasons) were in ashes before the General arrived. But you are correct, that didn't help either. As the late author Shelby Foote was quoted as saying, "the South never had a chance."
Posted by Besoeker 2019-09-04 11:35||   2019-09-04 11:35|| Front Page Top

#16 Easier to damn a symptom than resolve the root cause. "Guns cause violence, let's control them" rather than "Violence is inherent in the culture that we can't control."
Posted by Skidmark 2019-09-04 11:55||   2019-09-04 11:55|| Front Page Top

#17 http://heyjackass.com

Spread this site far and wide. It shows the depth of Chicago's problem. Dominated by Democrats since, the 50s or 60s?
Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-09-04 12:01||   2019-09-04 12:01|| Front Page Top

#18 It all goes back to the border. Secure the border, stop the flow of illegal narcotics and the gangs won't have any merchandise to sell. If they have no merchandise, they'll have no reason to fight about who can sell what and where they can sell it. They might have to go legit. But, hey, Lightfoot and Nancy need their cuts of the action.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-09-04 12:11||   2019-09-04 12:11|| Front Page Top

#19 It's hard to be sure which part of "civic pride" is the worst. Pride is dumb in many cases, but the entire concept of civic is a sucker play.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-09-04 12:17||   2019-09-04 12:17|| Front Page Top

#20 "60% of illegal firearms recovered in Chicago come from outside IL

Same with groceries and consumer goods, I'll wager.

In addition to heyjackass.com, Second City Cop is a good source of inside info on the 'workings' of Chicago.
Posted by SteveS 2019-09-04 12:27||   2019-09-04 12:27|| Front Page Top

#21 @#12 Did you smack him?
Posted by chris 2019-09-04 13:17||   2019-09-04 13:17|| Front Page Top

#22 
Posted by Besoeker 2019-09-04 14:01||   2019-09-04 14:01|| Front Page Top

#23 "60% of illegal firearms recovered in Chicago come from outside IL

In case you have not seen the cartoon,

"Then why don't those places have Chicago level violence?"
Posted by swksvolFF 2019-09-04 16:38||   2019-09-04 16:38|| Front Page Top

#24 The only way you'll ever clean up Chicago is to start by getting every politician and appointed official in the city in prison. The crimes are there, it will just take an interestes FBI and federal prosecutor.

After the pols are locked up, keep an eye on their replacements and start executing the street gangs.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-09-04 18:28||   2019-09-04 18:28|| Front Page Top

#25 "Show me the man, and I'll give you the crime!" Lavrenti Beria, 1932
Posted by SR-71 2019-09-04 22:44||   2019-09-04 22:44|| Front Page Top

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