Chicago: At Least 25 Shot Friday Through Sunday Afternoon

Shouldn’t this be in the Need More Guns thread?

We need more guns!

 

I had no idea what was going on in the stock market but after seeing this retread title of a long running THFSG trope I knew it had to be up... and sure enough.. yep..

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/06/stock-market-today-live-updates.html

 

Sounds like didn’t exactly run on a defund the police platform, but on using funds for inner city jobs programs to get some of these kids off the streets and into a productive role, and to expand mental health initiatives. It was mostly his opponents who spun that into “defund the police”.

Ultimately his campaign vowed to not cut a penny from the police budget.

https://news.wttw.com/2023/04/05/ho...ed-attacks-over-claims-he-would-defund-police

“As the race entered the homestretch, Johnson vowed not to cut the police department by even “one penny” and promised to redirect $150 million within the police department’s budget. That includes an additional $50 million to fund reform efforts and comply with the consent decree, according to Johnson’s campaign.”

 

It's clear that gun crime is a problem. For those that keep bringing this up, I'm curious what proposals they might raise to address the issue?

 

More guns and thoughts and prayers?

 

Good ol American gun violence, there’s nothing like it!

 

In addition to not cutting the police budget, his platform included promoting 200 officers to detectives so they can more thoroughly investigate and prosecute crimes, creating a database of illegal guns in the city, opening mental health treatment centers, and improving inner-city education as a former teacher in Cabrini-Green.

He's everything the right claims to want in a black community leader.

 

This is because of slavery and because black people have been kept down right @mutz87?

 

They just need therapy to go along with thoughts and prayers and more guns.

 

Therapy would help with the root cause and help resolve the deep rooted issues on why the need to pick up a gun and to shoot their fellow man. Or do you believe we should do nothing and just tell them their lives are messed up because of Slavery and Jim Crow?

 

Are those the only choices?

 

Make your own decision.

 

Another big city run by Democrats crime thread. Never addressing the per capita statistics from less populated red areas.

 

This is the OP's second thread this week rehashing old Obama tropes.

The psychological damage 44 did to the white supremacists in this country is immeasurable.

 

Or for that matter the fact that the majority of firearms used by criminals in Chicago originated in Red states run by Republicans. Said it before in terms of the probability of actually being caught gun running is probably the perfect crime. Thanks to the NRA law enforcement agencies have been denied the valuable tool of a national database of gun purchases.

 

Maybe you should go to the root of the problem. Talk to the mother and father, if you can find them. Find out what type of family unit they were raised in... good luck. Did they have any mentors. Were they encouraged to treat other people with respect, work at getting an education, know the difference between right and wrong. Oh, that's all probably asking way too much. This is way more than just guns, as some of you want to make it out to be. It's about being brought into the world with virtually no support system and having to fend for yourself.

 

They were definitely taught wholesome American values like violently defending yourself, others and your property, I assume they got some of the other stuff too.