Chicago Mayor Stops Blaming Cops for the City’s Violence. Now She Blames Republicans

1. Well, perhaps the Republicans are to blame- for abandoning the city, for not running for office, on and on. Yeah, that’s the ticket…

   • Or, maybe it is the destruction of the nuclear family and traditional values for 88 years that is the root cause of Chicago’s current situation.

     • What? This is no time for level headed logic based on empirical evidence! There’s an election to be won, and the dems will have NONE of that!

       • Well played James Campbell! Well played sir.

   • Take away the guns, and the savages will go back to slaughtering each other with spears, like they always did before being exported. The guns aren’t the problem, the savages are.
     Ironically, the Democrats and their pet savages are exactly whey we need guns in the first place.

     • As far back as I can remember, there has been an element country that steadfastly denies the right to self defense. This group drank the koolaid and signed into the socialist party. The new brown shirt organization called antifa and others do not want people that cannot be bullied or intimidated.

2. And she got elected, how??? People who elect fools like her deserve everything that happens after. Tired of being blamed for the bullshit they create!

   • Republicans don’t run in that city. If you have a “D” next to your name you win.
     I think it’s like the gang/mafia members who say (about their guy). “Yea, he’s a crook/killer/thief, but he’s OUR guy.

   • Because she’s a gay black female democrat? Priorities

     • Might be Jesse Jackson in drag.

       • baby groot.

     • Ain’t identity politics great?

     • Identity politics, second worst thing to happen to the country, right after political correctness!

   • Chicago now has a nonpartisan election system. The top two vote getters in the primary runoff in the second round general election. Nobody got anywhere near 50% in the primary. Bill Daley finished third at about 15% would have beaten Lightfoot or any other candidate in a straight up head to head election.

3. And yet another desperate democrat….lather, rinse, repeat…….all the same……we do things correctly …..other people keep us from being perfect.

   It will be interesting to find out (years from now) what her brand of graft looks like…..after all …its Chicago.

4. The typical liberal. Look at the anger in her face and always someone else is to blame. That is their only outlet.

5. I’d like to propose a celebrity Jeopardy charity match-up between the mayors of Chicago, LA, and NYC.

   Get your popcorn ready…

6. Well the dwarf bugeyed mayor(with a gigantic white “wife”) ran on a “tough on crime” platform and creamed her giant female opponent(true story). And she “discovered” a few daze ago Chiraq was near $1000000000 in debt. Cut her some slack…she’ll be gone soon😄😎😋

   • She won’t be gone. They keep electing the same types over and over. That’s why you and I don’t live there. Hopefully never will.

7. What a chameleon face, why are her eyes spaced 18 inches apart?

   • You think she’s bad? You should see Prickwrinkle. She’d take the starch out of any man, and just as anti-gun. I suspect that Sheriff Dart can’t stand her.

     • Tom Dart is a leftist political hack first, sheriff second or third.

   • I would suggest that environmental pressure is causing an adaptation that is moving her eyes toward the back of her head in the reverse process from a halibut, there by enabling her to better see violent assailants approaching from the rear. Evolution in action. Heh.

     • Ha ha ha

   • That’s why the police call her Groot. It’s a cartoon character.

   • She may share some lineage with Jerry Jones, Dallas Cowboys owner.

8. Why isn’t Indiana a literal war zone…..?

   • Because it’s not guns that commit murders. It’s people like the ones who live in Chicago who kill and maim.
     You can bet your last penny that if all guns magically disappeared overnight, murders in Chicago, Baltimore and other progressive heavens on Earth will continue. Killers don’t need guns to kill, they will use anything. See Rwanda for an example.

     • And….drugs are illegal. Why are there drugs in Chicago? Perhaps the gangs can’t read the “drug-free-zone” signs.

       • They are products of the Chicago schools….can’t read.

     • Bingo 😀

   • Ever been to Gary?

9. Kinda funny how all those guns aren’t causing problems in their Republican states of origin, or even downstate Illinois. But the minute they reach Chicago, BAM! They turn into murder machines.

   • And if the whole US of A enacted a complete gun ban (god forbid), the murders would continue and blame would fall on other countries.

     Still, 40 percent does not come from other states.

     She can’t well enough blame the actual perpetrators of these crimes. They are her voter base.

     • The blame will shift the Mexican Cartels and the Canadians for allowing cross-border leakage.

       • But never mind that the Mexican Cartels got them from Obama in the first place. Oh! Am I stupid, that’s a real world gun buy-back! 🥴

10. Firing a gun at or even near police would get you held without bail nearly anywhere else in the world. Assuming you weren’t killed “resisting” arrest.

    The water supply or air must contain some weird chemicals in Chicago! Possibly similar in parts of England.

11. The mayor is correct when she says guns come from Red Neck States that have no laws governing the second hand sale of guns which are then transported and sold in Chicago. The Chicago study proved that second hand guns were responsible for much of Chicago’s crime and not all of them were stolen either. The average age of the guns were 11 years proving they went through many hands because vetting of second hand guns is not done in Red Neck States. Many then end up on the streets of Chicago.

    The same old Right Wing Propaganda of “lets lock everyone up” has not worked down through the years as the U.S. now incarcerates more people than any other industrialize country on earth and it has done zero good in combating crime. Even China that has 4 1/2 times the U.S. population locks up way less people.

    Rather than focus on the causes of crime the Gangster Criminal Republicans simply refuse to spend any money on real solutions.

    They refuse to fund drug treatment programs,

    they refuse to stop the export of jobs overseas,

    they refuse to fund job training programs that would give low skilled workers free training programs for better jobs.

    Even small Countries like Germany spend far more money on job retraining and it does not all come from Socialist Programs as German Industry actually spends more money than the German Government does on retraining while the Greed Monger Republican filth that runs our industries spend little money on retraining and tell workers to spend their own money on retraining that for most part is a financial impossibility especially on the low wages the criminals in the Industrialized U.S. pay their workers. What little they do train workers in the U.S. declined by 6.8 per cent in 2018. Yet the criminal C.E.O’s often make millions a year in wages and millions more in perks. Its Capitalvania at its most obscene and corrupt.

    Today in Chicago we now have as many as 4 generations of people that have never had a decent paying job as they once used to have in the 50’s and 60’s and with no retraining programs either on the private industrial level or with any government programs it has been a prescription for social and economic disaster. All this filters down for screams of more gun ban laws because for Republicans that is the cheapest way out and they damn well know it and secretly endorse it.

    A recent Harvard Study showed that if you are low income you are far more likely to rise up the economic ladder in Canada that has more affordable health care, more job retraining for both adults and refugees and immigrants and a more affordable over all educational system. Children of refugees and immigrants are now being assimilated in less than 2 years and some of Canada’s larger cities are seeing the economic benefits of importing and training so many new immigrants and refugees. Exactly what in years past the U.S. used to do but now has abandoned and to add stupidity to ignorance has now even cut way back on legal refugees and immigrants under the jack booted regime of Herr Drumpf and the goose stepping racist Storm Troopers. The Republican credo has always been “we are are own worst enemies”. Just as Hitler sowed the seeds of his own destruction and that of his nation so too have the Republican U.S. Criminal Nazi’s now done to the U.S.

    The U.S. today is by far the very worst industrialized country on earth to live in with more violent crime, less opportunities to move up the economic ladder, unaffordable health and drug care, education that has become unaffordable , stagnated wages now for over 50 years and corrupt corporate welfare, crime and greed surpassing anything even the corrupt rich of Ancient Rome could have ever in their wildest imagination ever dreamed up or even thought they could get away with.

    • “…second hand guns were responsible for much of Chicago’s crime….”

      What a dummy. You’re not even trying anymore.

      • What does trying have to do with it? I copy and paste and I copy and paste and that is all I have to do to get my paycheck

        • Master Troll Level 89 achieved!

          Well done! You have mastered the cut-and-paste plagiaristic technique. Your magic has increased +1, and your speed has increased +2.

          Keep playing.

        • Honestly I think you use the speak and spell on your phone…

    • Those evil republicans. And they’re getting away with all that in spite of heroic resistance from the far left. Which leads me to believe the left is inneffective and needs to be replaced. 50 years the left has had to create a utopian paradise and they can’t pull it off.

      Weak minded, low educated leaders and followers. Only logical explanation. Watch the Orange Man Bad take the 2020 election from those idiots.

      • And they’re getting away with all that in spite of heroic resistance from the far left. Which leads me to believe the left is inneffective and needs to be replaced. 50 years the left has had to create a utopian paradise and they can’t pull it off.

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        Zinggggg!!!!!!!!!
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        Great, great point jwm. If Republicans are all wrong, we should still replace Democrats with a different party since Democrats have been unable to overcome all of the badness which Democrats claim that Republicans have caused.

        • How can anyone join the political party that supported slavery, started the KKK, and fought against the civil rights movement? I don’t care how you “reform” that stink just doesn’t come off. If the National Socialists suddenly reformed and became a “liberal-progressive” party, would you really want to join? Hell no, they were National Socialists. (For the uninformed drive by people, National Socialists are still on the left or authoritarian side of the political spectrum. Kissing cousins to Communism and Socialism.)

          I wondered growing up how a lot of my family came to being Republicans. I realized they saw how disgusting the Democratic party was, especially during the civil rights movement, and knew there was no way they could in good conscience be a part of that organization. I’m not a Republican anymore as I believe they are too squishy on certain parts of the constitution and too worried about shit that doesn’t concern themselves.

      • Weak minded, low educated leaders and followers. Only logical explanation. Watch the Orange Man Bad take the 2020 election from those idiots.

        The cnadidates for the presidential nomination recently went to a town hall on climate change.

        They ended up making attack ads for Trumps’ re-election campaign.

    • It’s back, how fuc**ng tiresome!

    • Vlad Tepid,

      I suppose I will provide the fisking that your commentary deserves.

      The same old Right Wing Propaganda of “lets lock everyone up” has not worked down through the years as the U.S. now incarcerates more people than any other industrialize country on earth and it has done zero good in combating crime. Even China that has 4 1/2 times the U.S. population locks up way less people.

      That’s because China simply executes a LOT of criminals. It is also because China has not destroyed the nuclear family and traditional values.
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      Rather than focus on the causes of crime the Gangster Criminal Republicans simply refuse to spend any money on real solutions.

      And, pray tell, how are Republicans supposed to repair destroyed nuclear families and restore traditional values? How are Republicans supposed to convince the poor urban teen that he should not murder another teen for his $300 athletic shoes? How are Republicans supposed to convince a poor urban male teen that he should actually marry his “baby momma” and actually raise their baby? How are Republicans supposed to convince poor urban female teens to stop having children that they have no means to support?
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      [Republicans] refuse to fund job training programs that would give low skilled workers free training programs for better jobs.

      How many poor urban pre-teens and teens have you mentored? And why is it government’s responsibility (under any political party) to fund training for anyone other than government employees? Why should I pay for someone else’s training? (No one paid for any of my training — it was brutally damn hard sacrifice and work.)
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      Yet the criminal C.E.O’s often make millions a year in wages and millions more in perks.

      You do realize that untold thousands of Progressive Democrats are C.E.O.s and/or earn millions or even billions of dollars a year in income. How come NONE of them keep only $100,000 a year to live on and give all the rest away to fund training programs?
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      Today in Chicago we now have as many as 4 generations of people that have never had a decent paying job …

      That is primarily the fault of the people who live in Chicago and refuse to better themselves, in spite of 88 years of Democrats running the city.
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      The U.S. today is by far the very worst industrialized country on earth to live in …

      I do not agree with that statement. Nevertheless, let’s say it is true for the sake of argument. That would be because a major portion of the populace has destructive values and desires. And since the people of government come from that populace and represent that populace, that government will facilitate destructive values and desires. And more government will not change that, no matter how large the government is or how much power it has.
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      In summary Vlad Tepid, the problem is simply our fundamentally flawed human nature, nothing more and nothing less. No government of any flavor or stripe (or political party) or size can fix our fundamentally flawed human nature. The best that government can do is hold evil-doers accountable for their actions, which never happens all that well since our government is simply a cross section of our nation’s fundamentally flawed humans.

      • And China doesn’t waste years or decades with appeals. And according to long shared rumours, family of the criminal pays for the bullet used in the execution.

      • $300 shoes? Maybe if they shopped at the shoe outlet like I did (and often still do) nobody would want to steal them. Where did a poor kid from Chiraq get $300 for shoes to start with?

        From what its worth over 80% of these shooters do come from broken homes. Which may be better than living in an abusive home, but without a good father figure/positive role model model what should one expect.

      • to Uncommon Sense who has no sense.

        quote———————–How many poor urban pre-teens and teens have you mentored? And why is it government’s responsibility (under any political party) to fund training for anyone other than government employees? Why should I pay for someone else’s training? (No one paid for any of my training — it was brutally damn hard sacrifice and work.)————–quote

        Typical Right wing greed and selfishness. I have it all and I will share nothing to make my country better for its people. AND YES GENIUS IT DAMN WELL IS THE GOVERNMENTS RESPONSIBILITY TO TRAIN ALL PEOPLE NOT JUST GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. HAVE YOU BEEN BLIND TO THE SOCIALISTIC PROGRAMS OF OTHER NATIONS IN THE LAST 120 YEARS AND THEIR SUCCESS. HOW IN THE HELL DO YOU THINK FINLAND WHO USED TO BE ONE OF THE POOREST COUNTRIES IN EUROPE IS NOW ONE OF THE RICHEST? “GOVERNMENT SOCIALIST PROGRAMS GENIUS”

        You conveniently ignored the unabashed truth of CANADA’S SUCCESS at retraining the poorer classes as well as refugees and immigrants. Your traditional right wing hog wash of work hard and you can be a success has proved the odds are stacked too heavily against the uneducated and the poor. Canada proved you wrong with their success with THEIR GOVERNMENT TRAINING PROGRAMS and OUR FAILURE BECAUSE OF STINGY CHEAP SKATE PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO REFUSE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE PROBLEM BECAUSE IT MIGHT COST YOU A PENNY TO BETTER THE WELL BEING OF YOUR FELLOW AMERICANS LESS FORTUNATE THAN YOUR GREEDY SELF AND THE ECONOMIC SUCCESS OF YOUR OWN COUNTRY. YOUR PHILOSOPHY IS” I AM CHEAP AND I WILL SAVE A PENNY TODAY AND PUT THE ENTIRE COUNTRY IN BANKRUPTCY TOMORROW” . CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE ALREADY ACHIEVED COMPLETE SUCCESS.

        quote——————- And since the people of government come from that populace and represent that populace, that government will facilitate destructive values and desires. And more government will not change that, no matter how large the government is or how much power it has.————–quote

        One hindered and twenty years of SOCIALISM PROVED YOU WRONG and proved that their governments were indeed more helpful to their people as they have socialist programs we do not have. Programs way too numerous to even go into in this response while we have little or none and they have been funding them for 120 years and they are way less rich than we are. Here the Capitalvanians hog all the wealth and the shit hole the U.S.has become sure proves that they succeeded where we have failed miserably.

        “quote—————————–You do realize that untold thousands of Progressive Democrats are C.E.O.s and/or earn millions or even billions of dollars a year in income. How come NONE of them keep only $100,000 a year to live on and give all the rest away to fund training programs?————————quote

        So if one party does it then its ok for the other party to do it? What we Socialists are demanding is that all the criminal C.E.O.’s be brought under control and be forced to share the wealth of a company with the workers. That is where good strong Unions come in which are backed up by Governmental laws that prevent criminal C.E.O’s. from enslaving people and making them modern day serfs.

        quote—————–That is primarily the fault of the people who live in Chicago and refuse to better themselves, in spite of 88 years of Democrats running the city.————–quote

        That is one of the most sickening white supremacist racist statements I have ever heard. You know damn well that poverty is a complex subject requiring complex solutions and when other nations have had way more success than we have it shows that PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE THE PROBLEM NOT THE POOR.

        quote——————-In summary Vlad Tepid, the problem is simply our fundamentally flawed human nature, nothing more and nothing less.No government of any flavor or stripe (or political party) or size can fix our fundamentally flawed human nature.———-quote

        Wrong the only fundamentally flawed human nature has come from the Gangster Criminal Republicans not the Europeans who proved your statement 100 per cent false. Your philosophy, like most Republicans “the world is evil so live with it because it might cost us a penny to fix the problem”. Sorry other nations did fix the problem and we have not. Canada and European nations have spent the money and continue to spend it while we spend none and we have created the economic mess we now are in.

        • My god! He must be right……..look at all the capital letters!

        • Obviously Osamacare and the pharmaceutical companies into whose pockets Barack Osama has his hands have also failed you as well as millions of the US population and you are now run out of your medications. Let me help. Just PM me your CC, CCV, zip, DOB, SSN and Rx.

      • to Uncommon Sense who has no sense or education for that matter.

        quote—————And, pray tell, how are Republicans supposed to repair destroyed nuclear families and restore traditional values? How are Republicans supposed to convince the poor urban teen that he should not murder another teen for his $300 athletic shoes? How are Republicans supposed to convince a poor urban male teen that he should actually marry his “baby momma” and actually raise their baby? How are Republicans supposed to convince poor urban female teens to stop having children that they have no means to support?———————quote

        Again you are shouting that White poor people do not live in the same way or make the same mistakes as black people. YOUR STATEMENT IS RACIST BEYOND ALL PRETENSE. You blame the problems of poverty on the poor rather than the economic and social conditions that created the poor. You scream black people are sub-human the same way Hitler screamed the Jews were sub-human. Its the same racist philosophy Hitler had which is to demonize a minority and claim your own race is “the master race” and only one worthy or capable of success. You ignore the history of white privilege. You deny the complexity of poverty. You state the poor are at fault for not succeeding. You have stated the Government should not help the poor or increase their educational level because it might cost you a few pennies. Your statements make an educated person or even an uneducated person who has some vestige of humanity retch when reading your statements.

        As long as we permit people like you to be in power our problems will only grow worse until society collapses from within and then your white privilege and your money will do you no good as you will finally have shot enough holes in the boat to sink the entire nation forever.

        And please refrain from using the statement “pray tell” you blaspheme the very word “pray”.

        • All of my copying and pasting seams to be going right over your head so I will dumb it down for you. White People are bad and need to be punished because they have white priviledge. The government needs to tax White People more and give the money to people who are not white because White People were not fair to people who are not white in the past. We socialists will take all guns from all the White people first then we will take all the jobs from the White People and give them to people who are not white.

          Do you see how Racist your are now?

      • to Uncommon Sense who has no sense

        quote——————-That’s because China simply executes a LOT of criminals. It is also because China has not destroyed the nuclear family and traditional values.———–quote

        Reagan destroyed U.S. family values when he shipped all the high paying jobs overseas and forced women into the workforce which led to high divorce rates and broken families. Its white kids who are committing mass murder not blacks. Explain that one Grand Wizard.

        • And dont forget Nixon he forced all of the steel mills in the US to shut down and move overseas thus causing the unprecedented levels of student loan debt we have today. Plus Gerald Ford who made Apple make all of its iPhones in china. I suppose you are going to tell me that didnt cause global warming! And best of all was Eisenhower who tried to buy Greenland and sell California to Mexico. That obvoisly caused millions of South Americans fleeing oppression to sneak across our border and go on welfare.

          I know all about the history of the US government!

    • Well everyone, we got to hear from the country of Retardistan on this topic.

    • ….excuses…excuses…excuses….always ignoring the obvious….

    • The same old Right Wing Propaganda of “lets lock everyone up” has not worked down through the years as the U.S. now incarcerates more people than any other industrialize country on earth and it has done zero good in combating crime.

      And “common sense”, “sensible” gun legislation has contributed a lot to the incarceration problem.

12. Another stupid leftist. I think straw man purchase sentences should be increased from 10 to 20 years and the buyer be charged with whatever crime the recipient commits to be served consecutively. Let’s see how some dizzy woman loves some schmuck. No plea bargaining no early release. Prosecuted and enforced federally by statute. Similar treatment for felon in possession. If they want guns laws try enforcing those on the books.

    • But the Democrats would lose nearly all of their community organizers.

    • I respectfully disagree. What you propose implies that the violence problem lies with the tool and access to it. People should be prosecuted for bad acts, not for possession of any object.

      Murderers in Chicago have lower than 1 to 10 odds they will get caught. Even if caught, they will probably not get convicted. Those few who do get convicted get light sentences and soon they are back on Chicago’s streets. Why is anybody surprised that they keep on killing?

13. Baltimore. Chicago. L.A. Philly. San Fran. D.C. New York. Portland. Detroit.

    What do they have in common? Retarded, corrupt children like Vlad Tepes are running all of them into the ground.

14. Common theme. Refuse to take responsibility and blame everyone else for your woes. When you cant get one story to stick, change it up, blame some other guy.

    Time for someone to build a wall, but not at the southern border. Lets start at shitcago, that shit pit by the bay and nyc and let them sort out their own issues.

    • Dystopian movies can use Chicago as the nation’s prison instead on New York.

    • Your first two sentences describe Lord Cheeto.

15. Hey, Mayor Lightbrain — You gotta blame it on something. Blame it on the rain that was falling, falling. Blame it on the stars that didn’t shine that night. Whatever you do, don’t put the blame on you. Blame it on the rain, yeah, yeah.

16. “If You Could Read My Mind”, 1970. Any relation to Gordon Lightfoot?

17. Face it, the lady isn’t bright enough to know truth from fiction. As long as Americans continue to elect ignoramuses like her, we’re doomed. I have very little hope for the outcome of Nov 2020. Our electorate has been tragically mis-educated, for at least two generations. Now comes the reckoning.

18. Chicago is a shit hole with a “mass shooting” every weekend and the media refuses to report it. It’s not “gun violence” it’s gang violence. Go to secondcitycop.com and heyjackass.com to see what no one reports. Look at the weekly totals, see who the offenders are, read the actual crime statistics, and who doesn’t do what in the Cook County legal system. Go see it yourself because no news outlet will carry the truth.

    • Yup! Here in sh!thole Rockford, 80 miles from Chicago, we have the same violence, committed by the same kind of people, and we are utterly helpless to stop it. Our LE is undermanned, our city leaders are clueless suckers, our “news” media dutifully hide any real news, and our school district is an unbelievable abomination. Our commonest violent criminal is “paroled felon with a gun.”

      All our “elites” are now celebrating the upcoming arrival of a gambling casino, because we apparently don’t have enough crime, poor people, slot machines and addicts already.

      Nothing will change for the better, because American voters are dumber than rocks now, thanks to the traitorous teachers in American schools and colleges. We lost the culture decades ago, and now we will reap the whirlwind.

      • Casino gambling is coming? That’s great news, just look what that did for Atlantic City, NJ.

        • Oh yes! Geriatric hometown rock star Rick Nielsen is lending his support to the Hard Rock Casino people to make it happen. He will probably make more money from his sponsorship in one year, than he made in his entire musical career.

          We already have legal slots all over town, in dingy pits full of dead-eyed zombie slot addicts. I know one retiree who blows his whole purse at the beginning of each month, has to borrow for the rest of the month to survive. You ask ten slot players this question: “In your lifetime, are you net positive, or net negative playing slots?” Every one of those pathetic losers will claim they are net ahead, and it can’t possibly be true. That is how insidious that addiction is.

19. She is not gonna look good in orange.

    • In orange? Dream on. She’ll probably be elected president someday. That’s how stupid our voters are now.

20. Chicago is not the only urban crap hole in this country. It is never the firearm used, but the person using it as a tool to commit the crime. No new or media outlets want to broadcast the murders that happen in our urban areas everyday while Democrats are campaigning across the county to be president to make them look bad.

21. “Chicago Mayor Stops Blaming Cops for the City’s Violence. Now She Blames Republicans”

    Because that what dems/leftists/liberals do, blame everyone else to avoid taking the responsibility themselves, and this is just another fine example of that…

22. She was much closer to the truth when she blamed the police. Chicago’s 9.5% murder clearance rate doesn’t do much to dissuade the would be murderers.

    • The Chicago PD is as dirty as everything else in Chicago. They don’t investigate home invasion robberies, they commit them.

    • Difficult to solve cimes when nobody sees nuffin.

23. Her forehead looks like a 7 head.

24. If only there was a way to let those poor people trapped inside of Chicago to get out and move somewhere safe and full of job opportunities!

    President, we need to TEAR DOWN THAT WALL AROUND CHICAGO!… oh, wait – you mean there isn’t anything actually preventing people who don’t want that kind of lifestyle from leaving? Hmm, that’s odd…

25. It’s clear that Chicago’s leaders
    Don’t want to solve this problem because they don’t see it as a problem. Politicians and gangs are in this together. Light sentences, gangs do as they please, just blame whitey, the right and the NRA, and Maintain status quo. It’s contained, voters get to retain victim status, beat goes on just keep their name outta your mouth!

    • And a culture that promotes beat downs on any one who tries the lift themselves up. The culture is promoted by those who couldn’t lift themselves up and they hate seeing anyone doing better than them.

26. Chicago aldermen are so deeply in bed with the gangs that City Council meetings should be shown on XHamster.

    • How long has it been that way?

      • Over 80 years.

      • Since my grandmother was a young woman and she trained to be an ambulance driver for WWI.

27. Gun control isn’t that heavy in Chicago and average folks can get a conceal carry permit. Compare that to NY and Baltimore where such things are impossible. Yet NYC crime is comparatively low, Baltimore’s is high.

    It’s almost as if guns aren’t the issue.

    • You mean it could he the people and culture?

      According to the genius of the carpathians, if the guns were gone then this violence wouldn’t happen.

      • *be

28. This is what happens when the responsible adults leave and the city is run by women and children.

29. . problems of chicago most coming from not voters. If not voters did vote they vote to banm gunms? I think wood. Wouldbat upside head to fix problem, yeS

30. Voting for the feels candidate probably won’t help any of our problems and certainly the poor minority folks will continue killing each other but it sure makes me feel good to virtue signal for my wine aunt peers.

    Said the well to do white voters of any city USA.

    Nationally they’re all saying “supporting that rich geriatric white lady who lied about being a minority to scam other feeling people like myself will sure make me feel good and virtue signal for my wine aunt peers.”

31. I had hoped Lori Lightfoot would find a way to turn things around. Not so far. but what sticks out to me is the chart she threw back at Sen. Cruz. The data is 2 1/2 years old. I would think it could have been a bit more up to date. To point at Indiana as the state that causes their problem makes little sense, you can practically walk there from Chiraq. I would also bet that NW Indiana has a fair amount of criminals from Chiraq arrested there.

    At last report, which has been over a year ago, Chicago was only prosecuting about 5% of gun crimes, the rest were dropped or plea bargained. People make decisions and with those choices come consequences, some good and some bad. Without those bad consequences behavior doesn’t change.

    • You’re not talking about deterrents are you? Liberals say they don’t work, they just hurt people’s feelings!

32. Unpopulare opinion #1: The Republicans are in part responsible for gang warfare in the inner cities because it is their failing drug prohibition programs that have created the (thriving $100B) black market for drugs. End Prohibition and watch the (bulk of) violence go away. They’re fighting over drug turf, pure and simple. The COPS are armed with military grade hardware, so why should they not be? The “Ware on Drugs” is the single largest reason we have massive, militarized police presence and frightening tolerance for that same groups abject violence.
    They (the Republicans) also have NOT fought for the rights of citizens in Illinois. If Republicans were all that great, they’d spend fully half their time arresting treasonous democrats for their crimes against the Constitution.

33. “Some people who live in less-safe neighborhoods feel the need to carry guns for their own protection, she says”
    …guess u can have it both ways

34. These guns coming in from Indiana must be some kind of “smart” gun, because they don’t seem to start shooting until they cross the Chicago city line!

    Seriously though, does she even look like the mayor of a major city? She doesn’t even get that part right.

    • But she has “all” the qualifications, like our last president! If they were “smart” guns, that clown would be in serious jeopardy!

      • You’re right; gay, minority, and female. She ticks all of the boxes. In fact, she might be over-qualified!

35. If you want to go down the rabbit hole and really see the effect of laws and violence, look at those ATF Tracing reports for each state.

    9mm is the king of calibers in every single state.

    Chicago accounts fo 80% of all firearm confiscations in the state of Illinois.

    Not a single rifle caliber makes the top 10 caliber list for Illinois, New York, or California

    In strict gun control states, large cities dominate confiscations overwhelmingly, but in less restrictive states the confiscations are evenly spread around the state. Even in Washington, Seattle only barely beats out Spokane. Compare that to Illinois where Chicago accounts for over 80% of all confiscations in the state.

    This is to say, large cities with restrictive gun laws take people’s guns more. Usually because they were involved in a crime. So in states with hefty gun control laws, where large cities usually overwhelm the politics of small towns in the rest of the state, crimes are being committed in the cities at a much higher rate than in states with less restrictive laws.

    When you deprive a state like Illinois of their rights, you are attracting criminal activity to your population centers.

    Billings, MT isn’t having a gun crime issue.
    Birmingham, AL isn’t have a gun crime issue.
    Even Seattle, WA isn’t having a gun crime issue. For the time being it is still perfectly legal to carry, open or concealed, WA remains shall issue and there is no assault weapon ban (just a legally challenged training and waiting period….).
    California is having a gun crime issue
    Chicago, IL is having a gun crime issue
    Washington, DC is having a gun crime issue.
    New York, NY is having a gun crime issue.

36. The Democratic motto, “The buck stops over there. and give me two dollars”

37. “60% of illegal firearms recovered in Chicago come from outside IL—mostly from states dominated by coward Republicans”

    100% of illegal firearms recovered in Chicago are recovered inside Chiciago. Apparently, those arms didn’t do illegal stuff until they got there, like the other 40% that started out bad, and in Chicago.

    • The Mayor of Chicago argues to ban Chicago; it’s corrupting law-abiding guns?

      That’s bold.

38. If Chicago gets a say on our laws, do we get a say on theirs? I have a few notions…

39. “firing his illegal gun”

    Was it stolen? How was the gun “illegal” under the 2A? Are you sure it wasn’t the act of a person that was “illegal” and not the gun itself?

    Stil lovin’ you some gun control I see, Mr. Boch.

40. Another reason to remove her from office it just shows she doesn’t know what she’s talking about, she’s just a follower not a leader, easily bought, we don’t need people like that in any public offices, we need leaders that believes in America and keeping it free,

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