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Post by PaulKay on Jul 7, 2014 9:39:19 GMT -5
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Post by aquaduct on Jul 7, 2014 9:52:44 GMT -5
Aren't guns pretty much banned in Chicago?
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Post by PaulKay on Jul 7, 2014 9:56:55 GMT -5
Aren't guns pretty much banned in Chicago? The state was forced into agreeing to a concealed carry law not long ago. There are some saying that since the law passed, it has gotten better. Maybe it would have been 50 people shot this weekend instead! Concealed carry helping |
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Post by godotwaits on Jul 7, 2014 10:17:47 GMT -5
CBS is reporting over the weekend, 60 shot/11 dead. Damn. That's grim statistics. Is it all gang related stuff?
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Post by drlj on Jul 7, 2014 11:26:51 GMT -5
It was 60 shot. Most was gang related.
IL was the last state in the union to allow concealed carry.
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Post by Marshall on Jul 7, 2014 11:39:51 GMT -5
Aren't guns pretty much banned in Chicago? Yeah, but you can cross into Indiana, buy 20 or so Saturday night specials, at a gun show, without a background check, and drive right back and sell them on the streets for a 200% mark-up. And of course fireworks are illegal in Illinois too. Yet every street corner in the city looks like Fort Henry on the 4th. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2014 12:10:00 GMT -5
<McHenry> I was raised a Baltimore boy (born in Annapolis), so seeing this is like seeing someone write John Hopkins University, too.  OK, back to your gun talk. |
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Post by aquaduct on Jul 7, 2014 12:24:50 GMT -5
Aren't guns pretty much banned in Chicago? Yeah, but you can cross into Indiana, buy 20 or so Saturday night specials, at a gun show, without a background check, and drive right back and sell them on the streets for a 200% mark-up. And of course fireworks are illegal in Illinois too. Yet every street corner in the city looks like Fort Henry on the 4th. Interesting. I don't know the statistics but around here I'm absolutely sure there's a gun for every 8 square feet of property. And you only need to go to the Gander Mountain or the WalMart to pick another one up. And fireworks are available on every street corner big enough to hold the tent. No need even to run up to West Virginia for the big stuff if you want to seriously blow some stuff up. I don't think anyone was shot over the weekend. Curious. |
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Post by Marshall on Jul 7, 2014 13:48:28 GMT -5
Well I'm not going to get into splitting hairs (with a Colt 45 at 200 yards like Clint), but I'm guessing your gun count includes a higher proportion of "legally purchased" arms.
But there's certainly no way to rationalize what goes on in gang turf of Chicago.
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Post by Marshall on Jul 7, 2014 13:50:16 GMT -5
<McHenry> I was raised a Baltimore boy (born in Annapolis), so seeing this is like seeing someone write John Hopkins University, too. OK, back to your gun talk.  |
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Post by PaulKay on Jul 7, 2014 14:01:56 GMT -5
Yeah, but you can cross into Indiana, buy 20 or so Saturday night specials, at a gun show, without a background check, and drive right back and sell them on the streets for a 200% mark-up. And of course fireworks are illegal in Illinois too. Yet every street corner in the city looks like Fort Henry on the 4th. Interesting. I don't know the statistics but around here I'm absolutely sure there's a gun for every 8 square feet of property. And you only need to go to the Gander Mountain or the WalMart to pick another one up. And fireworks are available on every street corner big enough to hold the tent. No need even to run up to West Virginia for the big stuff if you want to seriously blow some stuff up. I don't think anyone was shot over the weekend. Curious. We kin change dat  |
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Post by PaulKay on Jul 7, 2014 14:06:19 GMT -5
Interesting. I don't know the statistics but around here I'm absolutely sure there's a gun for every 8 square feet of property. And you only need to go to the Gander Mountain or the WalMart to pick another one up. And fireworks are available on every street corner big enough to hold the tent. No need even to run up to West Virginia for the big stuff if you want to seriously blow some stuff up. I don't think anyone was shot over the weekend. Curious. We kin change dat Yo, Fo' every one uh ya' dere be dree uh us  |
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Post by Doug on Jul 7, 2014 15:11:26 GMT -5
I'll see your 3 and raise you 2  |
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Post by david on Jul 7, 2014 15:14:50 GMT -5
Just think how dangerous those guys might be if they learned a little bit about how to shoot a gun.
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Post by TKennedy on Jul 7, 2014 16:50:06 GMT -5
My son runs a science outreach program at the Boys And Girls club in Chicago. We went out for beers with a couple of the counselors who were also Chicago cops.
They got a little drunk and started talking shop. It was amazing. They had their guns out every night.
There are good kids caught up in all of this. Finding their way out is a monumental struggle.
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Post by dickt on Jul 7, 2014 17:03:21 GMT -5
I am right watching the Chicago evening news right at this moment and the right numbers are 82 shot 14 killed.
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Post by billhammond on Jul 7, 2014 17:26:29 GMT -5
I am right watching the Chicago evening news right at this moment and the right numbers are 82 shot 14 killed. Five of the dead were young guys shot by police when they reportedly defied orders to drop their guns. Teens. |
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Post by Village Idiot on Jul 7, 2014 21:40:00 GMT -5
I think I'll stay here, way out in the middle of nowhere.
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Post by Marshall on Jul 8, 2014 7:04:17 GMT -5
There was another rash of shootings last night. TV news reported it. I can't find a link with the numbers. But I found a link to the Redeye paper that tracks shootings for the year. The vast majority are in black neighborhoods on the south and west side. Jesse Jackson wants a massive program to give jobs to everybody. He's got a point, except where do the jobs come from? homicides.redeyechicago.com/ |
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Post by millring on Jul 8, 2014 7:12:57 GMT -5
He's got a point, except where do the jobs come from? You just make them. You know. Job creation. Ex nihilo. |
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