One of Chicago’s most ardent anti-gunners, Father Michael Pfleger, pastor at the St. Sabina Catholic Church, has been removed from the Auburn Gresham parish after a decades-old allegation of sexual abuse was revealed, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Pfleger has become prominent in the gun prohibition movement in Chicago over the past several decades. Pfleger’s […]
Remembering 2020: ‘A Level of Violence…That Reversed Recent Progress’
As 2020 bows out the Chicago Tribune, looking at a body count exceeding 765 murder victims, reported the Windy City had “endured a level of violence in 2020 that reversed recent progress, with homicides increasing by more than 50%, according to official statistics.” Chicago is not alone in its level of mayhem. Newsday quoted New […]
Seattle a ‘Textbook Example of Failed Policies,’ Says Gun Rights Group
The City of Seattle is a “textbook example of horribly failed policies,” according to a national grassroots gun rights organization headquartered coincidentally in nearby Bellevue that looked at the skyrocketing number of murders in several major cities Wednesday. Fox News reported this week that the “Jet City,” which is also known as “The Emerald City” […]
More Murders in Chicago than in Most States Last Year
Chicago has hit a milestone, racking up more homicides so far in 2020 than all but two states did during the entire 12 months of 2019, according to the FBI Uniform Crime Report for last year. Only California (1,679) and Texas (1,379) reported more murders in all of 2019 than Chicago has logged over the […]
Metro Mayhem: Murders Soar in Chicago, Los Angeles = More Gun Law Failure
Monday morning it appeared the City of Chicago was close to hitting—if it hadn’t already—700 homicides for the year, with five weeks remaining in 2020, according to data from the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Windy City is not alone in the rise of metropolitan mayhem. Two thousand miles west, the City of Los Angeles hit […]
Chicago Erupts in Violence, Looting; Is This Justified by Police Shooting?
Already reeling from a steady wave of violence that has so far cost at least 18 lives this month and more than 425 so far this year, Chicago erupted with what Fox News described as “widespread looting and clashes with police” in the aftermath of a police shooting that left a suspect wounded. Alarmingly, Ryan […]
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