TTAG Daily Digest: Business Acumen, ‘Progress’ in Chicago and Women in the Lead

School shooting video game removed online after backlash Someone not only thought this was a good idea, but bankrolled its development and marketing . . . A Seattle-area company has removed a school shooting video game from its online platform following widespread backlash. The Active Shooter video game was pulled days before it was to be released … Read more

Rahm Emanuel’s Big New Idea for Attacking Chicago’s ‘Gun Violence’ Problem

Rahm Emanuel has tried almost everything a lefty anti-gun big city mayor can think of to cut back on the murder epidemic in his increasingly violent city. He’s fired and hired police superintendents, he’s tried (unsuccessfully) to eliminate gun stores within city limits, he’s tried (unsuccessfully) to keep shooting ranges out of his town. He … Read more

One Third of Last Year’s Homicide Increase in the US Due To Chicago

Maybe Mayor Rahm will want to re-think that whole ‘no troops in my town’ attitude . . . ONE-THIRD Of U.S. Homicide Spike Coming From 5 Chicago Neighborhoods Murders in the U.S. rose nearly 9% last year, and one-third of that increase came from just a few neighborhoods in Chicago, according to a Wall Street … Read more

Vedder Holsters Daily Digest: FPS Russia is Stung, Mom Pulls the Trigger and Military Disneyland

First his producer is murdered, now this . . . Everyone’s Favorite Gun-Loving YouTuber Is Having a Hard Time Federal authorities recently searched the property of Kyle Lamar Myers, the guy who’s famous for pretending to be Russian then shooting huge guns and causing violent explosions on the popular YouTube channel FPSRussia. Before the search, … Read more

Bryant Gumbel: Basketball Players Now Fair Game for Chicago Gang Bangers

According to the caption under the teaser for HBO’s upcoming Real Sports program, “Host Bryant Gumbel returns to his hometown of Chicago to report from Marshall High School, site of the iconic sports film, Hoop Dreams.” Mr. Gumbel reveals that Chicago gang bangers gave b-ballers a “hooper’s pass” back in the day, “excluding them from the violence.” … Read more

Blue Force Gear Quote of the Day: Placing Blame in Chicago

“[Chicago police officers are] cautious about the national narrative that’s out there right now, so they’re careful about how they do police. But at the same time the biggest reason for this spike is because our repeat guys just don’t fear the judicial system.” – Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson in Gun Deaths In Chicago … Read more