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2015-07-07 -Lurid Crime Tales-

9 Killed, 53 Wounded In Holiday Weekend Shootings

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Posted by Fred 2015-07-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 My son, air medic redneck, did 3 weeks at the rush university emergency room before going to Afghanistan. He said he saw more trama there in 3 weeks than the 52 in Afghanistan.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2015-07-07 00:13|| 2015-07-07 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 All because of Chicago's lax gun laws, thanks to SCOTUS McDonald ruling. Or so it will be said.

Posted by Glenmore 2015-07-07 08:03|| 2015-07-07 08:03|| Front Page Top

#3 WCR: if your son had gone across the street to the County (Stroger) ER he'd have seen more trauma in a day...

Posted by Steve White 2015-07-07 08:45|| 2015-07-07 08:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Paraphrasing here....but didn't the Champ say something following the Charleston shooting about "things like this not happening in modern, civilized societies?"

Credit where credit due. The indolent bugger was spot on !

Posted by Besoeker 2015-07-07 09:21|| 2015-07-07 09:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Summertime in Chicago is Darwin's busy season.

Posted by regular joe 2015-07-07 09:51|| 2015-07-07 09:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Besoeker, I think what Obama meant was that killing 9 people in a single shooting doesn't happen in advanced countries. Killing 9 people in a single weekend is different.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-07-07 10:52|| 2015-07-07 10:52|| Front Page Top

#7 It's down from the 82 shootings last year - an improvement!

Posted by Pappy 2015-07-07 12:52|| 2015-07-07 12:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Two questions,
1) what is a 7 year old doing out at midnight,
2) how is this 26 yr old woman involved with this seven year old?

This sounds like one of those cultural differences of which we're supposed to be tolerant, no?

Posted by AlanC 2015-07-07 13:04|| 2015-07-07 13:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Chicago radio stations did say that the number of shootings were proportionally down last weekend based on previous summer weekend data when the weather was good (which last weekend was).

Stroger ER was busy as usual with the 'non-reportable incidents' involving knives, projectile near-misses and whatnot, though. Just not added to the data that the county uses for their 'war on crime' statistical reports.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2015-07-07 13:56|| 2015-07-07 13:56|| Front Page Top

#10 #8 Two questions,
1) what is a 7 year old doing out at midnight,
2) how is this 26 yr old woman involved with this seven year old?

1) Learning a career
2) His Grandma

Posted by Frank G 2015-07-07 13:59|| 2015-07-07 13:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Ouch, Frank

Posted by Mullah Richard 2015-07-07 17:03|| 2015-07-07 17:03|| Front Page Top

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