New Year Off To A BANG In Chicago (Err “Chiraq”)

Submitted by IWB, on January 13th, 2016

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-more-than-100-people-have-been-shot-in-chicago-so-far-this-year-20160111-story.html

Where are Obama’s tears and Bloomberg’s millions over this?  Chicago is a gun-controller’s dream come true, considering practically nobody can own or carry a gun legally there. On the other hand, Chiraq is a gun-controller’s nightmare because it illustrates that even when they get everything they want mass carnage ensues.

Seven people were shot to death and 30 more were wounded across Chicago over the weekend, raising the number of shootings in the city to more than 100 in just over a week into the new year, according to police.

The fatal shootings included two teens killed by a store clerk during a robbery in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side, and one of three people shot at a party four blocks from Mayor Rahm Emanuel‘s home.

As of Monday morning, at least 19 people have been killed in gun violence in Chicago this year and at least 101 more have been wounded, according to data compiled by the Tribune.  This time last year, nine people had been killed and another 31 wounded, according to statistics kept by the Chicago Tribune.

The wider implications are limited, in my view.  These shootings are mostly enthusiastic members of the criminal underclass battling it out over drug turf and mindless, petty arguments (a significant percentage on social media).  Wake me up when the shootings involve more members of the working, law-abiding portion of the population, or when we start seeing political demands attached to organized, armed actions against government, business or low crime neighborhoods.

Besides, you have to subtract out the justifiable, self-defense shootings like this one (watch the video).

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-two-robbers-shot-to-death-20160109-story.html

The robbers were 15 and 17 years old.  What were you doing at 15 and 17? The 15 year old was arrested several days before this incident for stealing and crashing a BMW.  What? You thought he should’ve still been in jail?  They’re both so steeped in the criminal underclass at 15 and 17 that they’re stealing cars and sticking up liquor stores with illegal handguns because they know “the system” can’t stop them or even make them regret their crimes.