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| Chicago Gun Violence So High It Is Skewing National Murder Figures | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 23 2016, 12:34 AM (76 Views) | |
| Berton | Dec 23 2016, 12:34 AM Post #1 |
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Chicago Gun Violence So High It Is Skewing National Murder Figures The death toll from Chicago gun violence is so high that it is skewing national murder figures, making violence appear more ubiquitous than it actually is. Breitbart News reported that the death toll in Chicago had already passed 730 for the year by December 6. And the Chicago Tribune reports that the number of murders in Chicago reached 755 by December 21. When these numbers are added to the murder figures of other cities, they raise the overall perception of violence considerably — particularly when it comes to the number of homicides. According to The Washington Post, the Brennan Center of Justice expects “the homicide rate for the country’s 30 biggest cities… to go up by 14 percent this year.” But that increase does not tell the whole story; namely, that “the killings in Chicago account for an astounding 43.7 percent of this overall increase in [homicides].” In other words, if year-end numbers do in fact show the anticipated “14 percent” jump in homicides nationally, the deaths in Chicago alone will account for nearly half of that increase. This means Chicago’s failed gun control experiment is affecting us all by making murder numbers appear higher across the nation than they actually are. These elevated numbers give Democratic politicians an opportunity to claim concealed carry is not effective, to claim more intrusive government policies are necessary to keep us safe, regardless of which city or state we call home. Baltimore has witnessed approximately 299 homicides year-to-date, and Washington D.C. has witnessed approximately 128. When combined with Chicago, the death numbers in these three Democrat-run, highly gun-controlled cities account for well over 50 percent of the murder spike that will be credited to America’s 30 largest cities. LINK So what we need to do to make the US safer is to change the governments of a few cities to ones who support their police and believe in upholding the law. |
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| Thumper | Dec 23 2016, 01:07 AM Post #2 |
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The shooters are all no doubt of a liberal persuasion. |
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| Neutral | Dec 23 2016, 02:05 AM Post #3 |
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Let them keep killing each other. Put a fence around them and give them all guns. |
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| icy-woman | Dec 23 2016, 03:43 AM Post #4 |
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Gun Violence- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQYlQpFXCw4&t=7s More Gun Violence- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnKLEOXenow More- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_9oj_-sAo More- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L_YLvN3QGI&t=3s More- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53UwlS0gjaw more- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rifzISiAy8&t=47s more- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUcFFxC87Y0 |
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| Berton | Dec 23 2016, 04:58 AM Post #5 |
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Cops can only help so much. It takes the support of the people. When all you have is people who are against them they don't have much of a chance to lower the horrific number of murders in places like Chicago. Advocating against them doing their job makes a person accessory to murder in my opinion. |
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| Jim Miller | Dec 23 2016, 05:04 AM Post #6 |
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BINGO! |
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| Pat | Dec 23 2016, 07:25 AM Post #7 |
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The threats against the police have become so intense that many officers refuse to use some measures which are legal and would reduce violence and death, but refuse to for fear they will be attacked by the anti cop activists and have their jobs and careers threatened. Or sued. If you exclude the problems in Chicago and a few other similar situations, gun deaths and overall murder and violent crime has been dropping for years. |
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| Berton | Dec 23 2016, 07:32 AM Post #8 |
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Like I said, advocating against the police doing their job makes a person accessory to murder in my opinion. |
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