Excerpted from John Newsome’s article at CNN:
A war among criminals rages on in America’s third-largest city, with innocent residents caught in the crossfire.
Over the holiday weekend, Chicago passed an ominous threshold: So far in 2016, 2,000 people have been victims of gun violence.
In all of last year, 2,988 people were victims of gun violence, according to records kept by The Chicago Tribune.
Looking at all of 2016 — in every metric that matters in tracking gun violence — the numbers are up.
At least 319 people have been slain in Chicago this year, about a 50% increase over this period last year. The number of shootings and the number of shooting victims in 2016 have increased at about the same rate.
Two simple questions for Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats who run Chicago (there is exactly one Republican on the entire city council….and he is so leftward that the SEIU supported him):
1) How many of the 2,000 incidents of gun violence do you figure were committed with legally obtained firearms?
2) How many do you figure were committed by members of the NRA?
I don’t expect an answer.
