Bearing Arms: As we deal with a pandemic and so many of us being told to shelter in place, many of us are desperate to get back to something resembling “normal.” Sure, a ton of folks are working from home and binge-watching stuff on Netflix in an effort to make the best of a bad situation, but a lot of us would do anything just to feel normal again.
Hell, I rarely leave the house and I’m jonesing for a night out. I can only imagine what it’s like for more sociable sorts.
One group of people who aren’t letting COVID-19 change their lives? Chicago’s violent criminals, apparently.
The coronavirus pandemic is not only straining resources in Chicago hospitals but also on the streets. Despite the stay-at-home order, police responded to 19 shootings Tuesday night, six of which were homicides.
Overall crime was down in the last week, but robberies and shootings were up. The Chicago Police Department superintendent said the violence is draining the department’s resources that should be used to fight against COVID-19.
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“Yesterday was a horrific night,” said [Institute for Nonviolence Chicago executive director Teny] Gross. “The violence is not going down as much as it should.”
Six people were killed in shootings across the city. That follows a trend from last week.
According to data analyzed by the CBS2 Investigators, shootings were up 42% from the same week last year, from 28 shootings to 40.
What’s the surprise? Was the virus supposed to cure inherent poor impulse control and I instill human values?
What gives? I don’t even have to read the article. It falls under the phrase, “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns”.
When being outside your own home is outlawed, only outlaws (with guns) will be outside their own homes.
Criminals DO NOT OBEY THE LAWS. That’s why they’re called outlaws. Unconstitutional laws like these hurt ONLY law abiding citizens.
They’d better wear face masks though. Social distance! and stuff.
The mayor of Chicongo should just do what the mayor of Houston TX did; beg the criminals to lay-off the criminal activity until the virus is over.
“Overall crime was down in the last week ….
Because there was less of it or because thee was less reporting and less record keeping of it?
The Surgeon General forgot to tell the brothers……
not to kill the home boy that disses you…..!
A few 240 grain suppositories might help get the message across
Fewer people out and about = fewer witnesses?
Side note: Megan Hickey, the CBS scribbler who produced the article, is arithmetic challenged. A rise from 28 to 40 is more accurately 43% and not 42%. (If you want more precision, it is 42.8571…%)
I live so far away from that stuff I wouldn’t care if they dropped a cocaine brick and announced a shoot off to gain possession of it.
It might give LEO’s clear shots and clean up that shithole in the time being.
Seriously. Niggahz outta control in da Congo.
IOW a typical Monday thru Sunday in ChiTown.
Since we’re stuck at home with nothing to do, Let’s restart the Roman games and let the gangsters fight it out to the death. Then broadcast it. May as well as we’re reverting to Roman times anyway. History is repeating itself in a hundred different ways.
I’m guessing the homicide victims died of Covid19.
Do I really have to say /S?
Institute for Nonviolence Chicago
How Orwellian!
You are expecting more from urban apes?
Does everyone but me know which district we live in for the next “Hunger Games”?
Seems like Chicago is jumping the gun a tad.
Coronavirus-linked gunshot deaths. Shift the violent deaths to CV and blame Trump for them.
Heroin doesn’t vacation, addicts can’t take the day off.
Addicts, drugs, gangs, money.
What could possibly go wrong?
@ MissinMi. You call it sarcasm, I call it a valid question.
“… the Shitcago PD Supt said the violence is draining the Dept’s resources that should be used to fight against COVID 19.”
So how does a POLICE DEPT fight against a virus ?? Does he mean his cops should be enforcing stay-at-home orders instead of investigating violent crime ?
really?
you think corn-pop is gonna stop dealing drugs?
you think gangbangers are gonna stop gangbanging?
people who have always lived a cash-lifestyle are not going to see any difference other than the PIGS going after people for more new stupid shit since they cannot be arrested for being criminals anymore AND they are letting all the locked up criminals out to cause mayhem and they think crime is going to go down?
demoncrat thinking at its finest.
Crooked is as crooked does, Chicago isn’t ever going to change.