‘Proliferation of weapons’: Chicago police blame weak gun laws for deadly weekend

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• Beyond stupid. Besides, since its mostly criminals getting shot, more Power to 'EM. Save on government administrative costs, like trials.

• It is a proliferation of unarmed law abiding citizens with no way of protecting themselves. Nothing more. Until the fools in Shitcago wake up and realize it, they will continue to see this types of weekends.

  • http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/07/08/Real-Clear-Politics-Co-Editor-Rahm-s-Chicago-a-War-Zone

• the politiceration of guns

• "McCarthy said gangs and repeated criminal offenders cherish their weapons and are more likely to engage in gun battles with police than discard their guns because of lax state and federal laws. McCarthy has repeatedly called for mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes.

  “There is more of a sanction from their gangs for losing a weapon than there is to get arrested with an illegal firearm,” McCarthy said at the press conference Monday. “Something’s got to change.” "

  So, what is it- lax guns laws or strict gun laws. If guns are 'cherished' because they are valuable- doesn't his mean that they are hard to get- which is the opposite of what they are complaining about? If guns were easy to get they would just drop them and run. The harder it is to get a gun, the more likely they bad guys are to engage the cops- according to to half of what he is saying, since one half disagrees with the other half of what he is saying..

  It seems more likely that the CPD is lead by idiots. That explains everything....

• The issue is, are the right people being shot?
  Nothing wrong with violent criminals receiving the "taxpayer relief shot"
  Its those innocent bystanders, children, mothers and honest hard working victims being killed by gangsters that needs to STOP.

• You don't suppose poverty, lazy union cops, and vicious gang members had anything to do with it do you? I also read that a lot of these people were shot by the police as well.

  • lazy union cops, and vicious gang members ARE the police in Chicago.

• I wonder how long it will be before bands of unaccompanied Chicago children begin traveling to Central America to escape the poverty and violence of their homeland.

  • Central American countries are smart enough to turn them away.

    • Really, they're glad to get rid of MS-13, why would they welcome Crips and Bloods?