Chicago is among the most stringent gun-control areas in the United States, if not the world in the countries where gun ownership is even allowed.
In the past, as a nation, we've been stung by the tragedies of what we typically call "mass-shootings."
Well, Chicago calls that sort of thing "Saturday."
Their strict, repressive violation of our 2nd Amendment rights avails them little except more blood, more pain and more death... precisely like the gun-grabber initiative confronting us this November.
This took place in that democrat utopia known as Chicago.
For 10 minutes, it seemed like the shooting was everywhere in the South Chicago neighborhood.
It started when someone shot and wounded a couple, then two people fired at the shooter, then there was a chase and shots exchanged and a man sitting on a porch was hit. Responding officers kept cutting each other off on their radios as they reported other gunfire in the area late Sunday night and early Monday morning.
Then the heavy equipment rolled in: A helicopter and SUVs packed with lockers of rifles. SWAT teams in green coveralls patrolled the streets with uniformed officers.
It was just one of dozens of
shooting scenes across Chicago over the long Fourth of July weekend. In
all, at least 82 people were shot, 14 of them fatally, since Thursday
afternoon when two woman were shot as they sat outside a two-flat within
a block of Garfield Park.
Five of the people were shot by police over 36 hours on Friday and Saturday, including two boys 14 and 16 who were killed when they allegedly refused to drop their guns.
Many of the long weekend's shootings were on the South Side, clustered in the Englewood, Roseland, Gresham and West Pullman neighborhoods that rank among the most violent in the city.
The victims ranged from the 14-year-boy shot by police in the Old Irving Park neighborhood to a 66-year-old woman grazed in the head as she walked up the steps of her porch on the Far South Side. Most victims were in their late teens and 20s.
Each night of the long holiday weekend, at least a dozen people were shot in the greatest burst of gun violence Chicago has seen this year.
• From Thursday night into Friday, three people were killed and 10 others wounded. An attack outside a West Englewood salon left two men dead and an East Garfield Park shooting took the life of a 21-year-old woman.
• From Friday afternoon into Saturday, 20 people were shot, one fatally. The man who died had been flashing gang signs in a parking lot in the Clearing neighborhood when someone told him to stop. When the man didn’t, he was shot, police said.
• From Saturday night into Sunday morning, four people were killed and another 10 wounded.
• The bloodiest stretch of the weekend was a 13-hour period between 2:30 p.m. Sunday and 3:30 a.m. Monday when four people were killed and at least another 26 wounded, many of them in critical condition. And the most chaotic scene was in South Chicago, where three people were wounded during a running gun battle.
The shooting started around 11:20 p.m. Sunday when someone opened fire at two people who just left a store on Exchange Avenue south of 80th Street. A 25-year-old man was taken in critical condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital and a 19-year-old woman was stabilized at Advocate Christ Medical Center.
While the man was firing, two people on the street shot at him and a chase ensued, with the three exchanging gunfire through a vacant lot west toward Escanaba Avenue, police and neighbors said.
The three didn't hit each other but a 48-year-old man was caught in the crossfire while sitting on the porch. He was wounded in the ankle and taken to Jackson Park Hospital.
The shooting kicked off an hour of occasional chaos as responding officers kept hearing gunfire, first the exchange between the three, then an apparently unrelated volley of shots a few blocks west on Muskegon Avenue where police found shell casings on a porch.
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In the past, as a nation, we've been stung by the tragedies of what we typically call "mass-shootings."
Well, Chicago calls that sort of thing "Saturday."
Their strict, repressive violation of our 2nd Amendment rights avails them little except more blood, more pain and more death... precisely like the gun-grabber initiative confronting us this November.
This took place in that democrat utopia known as Chicago.
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Fourth of July weekend toll: 82 shot, 14 of them fatally, in Chicago
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It started when someone shot and wounded a couple, then two people fired at the shooter, then there was a chase and shots exchanged and a man sitting on a porch was hit. Responding officers kept cutting each other off on their radios as they reported other gunfire in the area late Sunday night and early Monday morning.
Then the heavy equipment rolled in: A helicopter and SUVs packed with lockers of rifles. SWAT teams in green coveralls patrolled the streets with uniformed officers.
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- E 84th St & S Buffalo Ave, Chicago, IL, 60617, United States
- W Jackson Blvd & S Halsted St, Chicago, IL, 60661, United States
- 1000 N Springfield Ave, Chicago, IL, 60651, United States
- 7200 S Dobson Ave, Chicago, IL, 60619, United States
- 10900 S Throop St, Chicago, IL, 60643, United States
- 5500 S Lawndale Ave, Chicago, IL, 60629, United States
- E 80th St & S Escanaba Ave, Chicago, IL, 60617, United States
- 9600 S Carpenter St, Chicago, IL, 60643, United States
- E 81st St & S Exchange Ave, Chicago, IL, 60617, United States
- W 87th St & S Morgan St, Chicago, IL, 60620, United States
- 8400 S Loomis St, Chicago, IL, 60620, United States
- W 101st St & S Emerald Ave, Chicago, IL, 60628, United States
- W 66th St & S Hoyne Ave, Chicago, IL, 60636, United States
- W 115th St & S Harvard Ave, Chicago, IL, 60628, United States
- W 116th St & S Stewart Ave, Chicago, IL, 60628, United States
- 1500 N Mason Ave, Chicago, IL, 60651, United States
- W Lake St & N Laramie Ave, Chicago, IL, 60644, United States
- 8300 S Wood St, Chicago, IL, 60620, United States
- 7200 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL, 60649, United States
- 8500 S Exchange Ave, Chicago, IL, 60617, United States
- 5600 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637, United States
- W 110th St & S Normal Ave, Chicago, IL, 60628, United States
- 333 E 132nd St, Riverdale, IL, 60827, United States
- E 134th St & S Vernon Ave, Riverdale, IL, 60827, United States
Five of the people were shot by police over 36 hours on Friday and Saturday, including two boys 14 and 16 who were killed when they allegedly refused to drop their guns.
Many of the long weekend's shootings were on the South Side, clustered in the Englewood, Roseland, Gresham and West Pullman neighborhoods that rank among the most violent in the city.
The victims ranged from the 14-year-boy shot by police in the Old Irving Park neighborhood to a 66-year-old woman grazed in the head as she walked up the steps of her porch on the Far South Side. Most victims were in their late teens and 20s.
Each night of the long holiday weekend, at least a dozen people were shot in the greatest burst of gun violence Chicago has seen this year.
• From Thursday night into Friday, three people were killed and 10 others wounded. An attack outside a West Englewood salon left two men dead and an East Garfield Park shooting took the life of a 21-year-old woman.
• From Friday afternoon into Saturday, 20 people were shot, one fatally. The man who died had been flashing gang signs in a parking lot in the Clearing neighborhood when someone told him to stop. When the man didn’t, he was shot, police said.
• From Saturday night into Sunday morning, four people were killed and another 10 wounded.
• The bloodiest stretch of the weekend was a 13-hour period between 2:30 p.m. Sunday and 3:30 a.m. Monday when four people were killed and at least another 26 wounded, many of them in critical condition. And the most chaotic scene was in South Chicago, where three people were wounded during a running gun battle.
The shooting started around 11:20 p.m. Sunday when someone opened fire at two people who just left a store on Exchange Avenue south of 80th Street. A 25-year-old man was taken in critical condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital and a 19-year-old woman was stabilized at Advocate Christ Medical Center.
While the man was firing, two people on the street shot at him and a chase ensued, with the three exchanging gunfire through a vacant lot west toward Escanaba Avenue, police and neighbors said.
The three didn't hit each other but a 48-year-old man was caught in the crossfire while sitting on the porch. He was wounded in the ankle and taken to Jackson Park Hospital.
The shooting kicked off an hour of occasional chaos as responding officers kept hearing gunfire, first the exchange between the three, then an apparently unrelated volley of shots a few blocks west on Muskegon Avenue where police found shell casings on a porch.
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