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 […]
Chicago Mayor Blames Guns for Windy City Homicide Spike
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, scrambling to appear in control amid what amounts to a bloodbath in her city’s streets, has blamed the rising body count on “the federal government’s failure to conduct background checks, a measure the state of Illinois has already implemented,” according to the Washington Free Beacon. It’s a familiar fallback, according […]
Chicago: 14 Weekend Slayings Brings Year’s Body Count to 284
Fourteen weekend slayings out of 102 people shot in Chicago pushes this year’s body count to 284, according to the Chicago Sun Times, which tracks murders in the Windy City, and 2020 isn’t even half over. At the current rate, the city might see 600 murders by year’s end, and possibly more since summer just […]
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