[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] One of the most violent years in Chicago history ended with a sobering tally: 762 homicides, the most in two decades in the city
'Chicago murder rate is record setting – 4,331 shooting victims with 762 murders in 2016,' Donald Trump tweeted on Monday
'If Mayor [Rahm Emanuel] can't do it he must ask for Federal help!'
Emanuel and Trump met December 7 in New York City but reportedly talked about illegal-immigrant 'dreamers,' not gun violence
The nation's third largest city also saw 1,100 more shooting incidents last year than it did in 2015
The increase in homicides compared to 2015, when 485 were reported, is the largest spike in 60 years
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C'mon folks, it's 795 plus 36 "death investigations"
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Somebody asked yesterday what is the point of gun control in Chicago. Obviously it's not helping with the shootings and murders. But as long as the shooters and murderers are "confined to certain geographic and demographic parameters" Emanuel and his kind don't care. Gun control is for the control of law abiding, legal citizens.
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01/03/2017 11:56 Comments ||
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Favorite soundbite from the article: " ... Illinois lax gun laws..."
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Found a link to Chicago F/R through Pappy's link, thought it would be interesting to listen to a major urban w/port dispatch system - about as far away from what I am used to as one can get without going international.
Little ways in, something like, "Do we have a unit available for a reported shooting?"
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Rahm keeps the murders within the plantation and he doesn't care.
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There is no gun control in Chicago, not where it counts. They only want more restrictions on law abiding citizens.
Meanwhile, criminals, including repeat felons who use guns during a crime, are either not charged with that offense or get off lightly with early release.
Just enforce the existing law, and the killings will diminish very quickly. That's what Trump should propose and monitor.
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