Chicago gun ban works as predicted

[Safetyhit]

Do you think Steele would be welcomed in a primarily black ghetto? No. He is a race traitor and uncle tom.

To the hardcore dysfunctional he is, perhaps sadly even the black majority in a misguided sense. But still to many he is not, therefore we have a foundation on which to build if we cultivate it.

Yet again, I really agree with you overall. But to simply overlook a serving black President as irrelevant and the head of the GOP as a deemed uncle Tom is not telling the full story.

[dmanflynn]

You want to cure the hood rat problem? Drive two convoys into each "hood". One filled with weapons of all kinds the other with ammunition. Block off all exits and entrances and let them kill each other. When they run out of ammo, send more in till the end up eliminating most of each other. Castrate the survivors and bam. You've made a significant contribution to society

[RogerinTPA]

GDs... all the splinter factions are battling it out for turf. trying to subdue it is just gonna make the war last longer. give regular citizens the ability to protect themselves, and stick to reactive policing- cleaning up the bodies of Gangster Disciples.

there is no other solution.

How about proactive and aggressive police patrols (foot, horse, and vehicular)? Saturate the areas with city, county, and state LEOs. Conduct shake downs and curfews for the affected areas. Treat the areas like A-stan or like any other insurgency. Get to know the people, and get them to tell you who the bad guys are, where they live and where they operate (intel gathering and exploitation of the intel gathered). Have IL become a "shall issue" state.

[LMT42]

I'd like to know who's getting killed in this "9%" area, where crime is so rampant. If it's gang members killing gang members, I don't really see a problem.

[dmanflynn]

I'd like to know who's getting killed in this "9%" area, where crime is so rampant. If it's gang members killing gang members, I don't really see a problem.

The thing is, is that you have ignorant no good trash parents that have children in these neighborhoods and they get killed/paralyzed in the crossfire.... That eats me up to no end to hear of some girl or 10 year old gets shot in some hood by a bunch of hood rat ****s playing gangster. And quite frankly it all starts with the parents, but I digress

[Belmont31R]

I'd like to know who's getting killed in this "9%" area, where crime is so rampant. If it's gang members killing gang members, I don't really see a problem.

The problem here is unless you do something the problem keeps going, and expands into other areas.


A lot of gang members are really 14-18 years old. They should be out trying to get with girls, and having fun not trying to shoot each other.


If it was just adults, and killing each other would be the end of it...yeah let em duke it out. We really havent done much as a society to stop this crap, and now kids look up to the gangster/rap shit as their role models instead of the stuff we did as kids.

[-gary]

If they had belt feds and RPG's they would be using them. No doubt about it.

Can't they just go to any gun show and pick those up?

[markdh720]

I'd like to know who's getting killed in this "9%" area, where crime is so rampant. If it's gang members killing gang members, I don't really see a problem.

The majority of "victims" aren't the saints that their grade-school photos on the news would have you believe. More often than not, the "victim" was associated with a gang if not a member. They put themselves in shady situations and I don't have a problem with that either.

On the other hand, there was a shooting just before Christmas. A POS father with a target on his back (gang related, of course) drives onto one of your typical ghetto blocks, presumably to buy drugs. Turns out to be an ambush. When the guy gets back in his car, two guys come out and shoot into the car with a shotgun. the guy is hit but lives. His 12 year-old son's head is blown off. Can a 12 year-old be a POS? Yes, I've seen it, but this might have just been your average teenager....with a shitty father.

That kid represents, probably, 10% of the forecasted 500 homicide victims this year that are the true victims and don't deserve what they get.

I'd love the "let them kill each other" scenario to happen. Unfortunately, this is the real world.

[Irish]

One Chicago weekend = 52 shot, 8 dead. Way out of control!!!
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...-96832609.html

Fifty-two people shot, eight of them fatally in a single Chicago weekend, yet Mayor Richard Daley appears poised to go down screaming in his opposition to the Second Amendment Foundation's lawsuit to overturn his city's handgun ban.

The U.S. Supreme Court could rule any day on the case of McDonald v. City of Chicago, filed by SAF, the Illinois State Rifle Association and four Chicago residents. That ruling will likely strike down the handgun ban, thus opening the door to legal self-defense by Windy City residents.

"Chicago has become a slaughterhouse," said SAF Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb, "where defenseless victims are terrorized by armed thugs who have taken full advantage of an unarmed populace. Daley and his predecessors who perpetuated this ban are wading knee-deep in the blood of hundreds of crime victims who should have had the means to defend themselves.

"Year after year the statistics have piled up," he continued, "yet Mayor Daley has stubbornly defended the city's ban. While he has luxuriated at his vacation home with the safety of armed bodyguards, the bodies of Chicago crime victims have stacked up like cordwood.

"Within days," Gottlieb observed, "we should have a ruling from the Supreme Court that puts an end to this insanity, and gives the citizens of Chicago back their right to defend themselves. Daley thinks his constituents should be content to call 911 and wait for help to arrive while they're being shot, stabbed, raped, robbed or beaten. Those crimes happen fast, and when seconds count, Chicago police are minutes away.

"We took Daley to court because we trust his citizens more than he does with their self-defense rights," Gottlieb concluded. "Chicago residents have endured the terror of public disarmament for almost three decades, and all they have to show for it is a body count. Mayor Daley should be ashamed."

The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nation's oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, the Foundation has grown to more than 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control.

[Jer]

How many innocent people need to be killed before they realize they're idiots? My guess is all of them.