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Another bloody weekend of gun violence in Chicago leaves 65 shot, 5 killed

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Gun violence is showing no signs of easing its bloody grip on Chicago, with 65 people shot — five of them fatally — this past weekend alone.

A third of the shootings between Friday night and early Monday took place on the city’s notoriously violent West Side, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Ten of the victims were wounded in three shootings near Garfield Park, the newspaper reported.
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The solution here is obvious. According to the NRA, we need more good guys with guns patrolling the city streets.
 

Gun violence is showing no signs of easing its bloody grip on Chicago, with 65 people shot — five of them fatally — this past weekend alone.

A third of the shootings between Friday night and early Monday took place on the city’s notoriously violent West Side, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Ten of the victims were wounded in three shootings near Garfield Park, the newspaper reported.
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The solution here is obvious. According to the NRA, we need more good guys with guns patrolling the city streets.

Everyone always talks about the Southside, and there are some really dangerous neighborhoods there, but it was always the Westside that had the fiercest reputation.

The Southside is geographically huge in relationship to the other two 'sides' of the city, so there's a lot of crime by raw quantity. The Westside however, is the most compact 'side'. The problem areas are only a portion of the Westside, meaning those bad areas of the Westside have an extreme density of crime, and that's why they are considered so dangerous. It's only a several square miles, but those miles are pretty intense!

Adding to & driving this, common in so many large cities, is the drug trade. The Westside has easy direct access via a major expressway from the relatively affluent Northwest suburbs. Suburban habits & money drive a lot of the Westside drug trade & turf battles, to the point that some of the expressway's exits, especially at night, might be best avoided. This run in from the 'burbs' has even garnered a name!

"The Heroin Highway"

And of course with drugs comes robbery, violence, prostitution, and car-jacking. It's not a good scene, at all

Interestingly though, Whitney Young Public H.S. on the Near Westside, only a stone's throw away from the worst areas, is often ranked the top public school in the city, within the top 2 or 3 in the state, and anywhere from 10 or 11 to 25 nationally! God bless them!
 

Gun violence is showing no signs of easing its bloody grip on Chicago, with 65 people shot — five of them fatally — this past weekend alone.

A third of the shootings between Friday night and early Monday took place on the city’s notoriously violent West Side, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Ten of the victims were wounded in three shootings near Garfield Park, the newspaper reported.
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The solution here is obvious. According to the NRA, we need more good guys with guns patrolling the city streets.

Just to add a data-point, shootings & murders are actually down 10% this year:

 

Gun violence is showing no signs of easing its bloody grip on Chicago, with 65 people shot — five of them fatally — this past weekend alone.

A third of the shootings between Friday night and early Monday took place on the city’s notoriously violent West Side, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Ten of the victims were wounded in three shootings near Garfield Park, the newspaper reported.
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The solution here is obvious. According to the NRA, we need more good guys with guns patrolling the city streets.
The NRA has nothing to do with Chicago, though maybe having a staffing shortfall of 1300 officers might be having an impact.
 
The NRA has nothing to do with Chicago, though maybe having a staffing shortfall of 1300 officers might be having an impact.

Right, because they work to flood our communities with guns and the violence is fueled by guns is just a coincidence.
 
Right, because they work to flood our communities with guns and the violence is fueled by guns is just a coincidence.
Never realized there were so many NRA members in Chicago’s south side before. I think it’s more the 10% staffing shortfall of the CPD.
 

Gun violence is showing no signs of easing its bloody grip on Chicago, with 65 people shot — five of them fatally — this past weekend alone.

A third of the shootings between Friday night and early Monday took place on the city’s notoriously violent West Side, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Ten of the victims were wounded in three shootings near Garfield Park, the newspaper reported.
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The solution here is obvious. According to the NRA, we need more good guys with guns patrolling the city streets.
You're right. Instead, we should put 100% of our focus and efforts on ONE singular style and brand of rifle, that was involved in exactly none of those shootings you listed.
 
Right, because they work to flood our communities with guns and the violence is fueled by guns is just a coincidence.
NRA doesn't sell guns you are focusing on an object, try finding out what is wrong with your communities in the first place.
 
And Mayor Lightheaded is currently worried about spending taxpayer dollars on a new stadium.
 
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