Summer Gun Violence

According to CBS 2's records, 123 people were shot and killed in Chicago between Memorial and Labor Day, and another 245 were shot and wounded. Over the same time period, 65 American soldiers were killed in Iraq. The most dangerous police district this summer was District 7, which includes Englewood and West Englewood, where gunfire killed 14 people and wounded 48. [CBS 2]

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This seriously needs the 'whatthefuckisgoingonaroundhere' tag for this story. This is just depressing. I don't even want to know how many of them were children.

Wow. That's impressive Chicago. Numbers like the above made me think of an excerpt from a William Lind article regarding child combatants:

"As we have seen in Africa, when children become fighters at an early age, they provide a pool of men who for at least a generation cannot do anything but fight. It is difficult to "de-program" them into peaceful citizens. In turn, this leads to what we might call "supply-side war," war driven largely by the presence of men who want to fight. This kind of half-war, half-brigandage swarmed over Europe during the interval between the end of the Middle Ages and the rise of the state. After Westphalia, the state put an end to it by rounding up the brigands and hanging them."

Point being, this won't be ending any time soon. I dont think rounding up the lot of them and hanging them is an option. Any ideas?

USA! USA! USA! USA!

I say we continue underfunding schools and locking up a gazillion people for selling drugs, even though 95% of them will end up back on a street near you, worse off, with zero prospects. That'll fix everything!

I think Glock should sponsor the olympics in Chicago!

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Well put it this way, if we DO get the 2016 Olympics, we'll have one hell of a local pistol team.

Looks like Obama did a great job organizing the south side's community...

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Really? Oh, well, ok then.

"Obama eliminates all gun in a 200 mind radius WITH HIS MIND, defying decades of Chicago gangsters"

And by gangsters you mean anyone with "community leader" and "Reverend" in their title?

>Well put it this way, if we DO get the 2016 Olympics, we'll have one hell of a local pistol team.

Are you kidding? These guys can't shoot for crap. that's why they keep hitting innocent kids instead of their fellow gangbangers.

Now, what if we could manipulate gangbanger opinion by making them think that real men fight with rusty axes.

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