Eight people were wounded, two of them children, in a drive-by shooting Saturday evening that targeted a birthday party in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.

Gunfire erupted at 6:21 p.m. at a barbecue in the 6300 block of South Seeley, according to preliminary information from Chicago police. The shots were fired from a red Chevrolet Equinox.

Eight people were struck, including two children who were rushed to Comer Children’s Hospital, police said. A few other people were taken to Holy Cross Hospital, while another was transported to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.

K9s wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2019 6:35 pm I read that 31 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend. The new mayor said she wants to solve this by focusing on poverty and social problems. I don't think she mentioned gun laws. The Dems around her are clamoring for new gun laws.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/us/c ... tfoot.html

“If people don’t feel safe, they’re not going to stay,” Ms. Lightfoot said on Monday of gun violence. “If people don’t feel safe, they’re not going to have hope. If people don’t feel safe, they’re not going to invest.”

“Fundamentally, if people don’t feel like their lives are valued and they don’t value their lives, they’re not going to value their neighbors’ lives. So we have to disrupt that mentality and the only way that I know how to do it is to do it with investment.”

‘We have to treat this epidemic of violence that we’re seeing as a public health crisis.’ —
@chicagosmayor
Lori Lightfoot wants to reframe violence in the city so officials can get to the real root of the problem and fix it

The term "military grade" when not referring to a mil spec is 100 percent a marketing term used interchangeably with words like strong, tough, intense and high-quality. It links their product with some of the highest-rated products in the world

Pretty much anything can be tactical provided you are using it in a tactical application.

A word used by firearm, cutlery, ammo, or clothes manufacturers to make their products more appealing. The advertisement for said “tactical” products usually includes pictures of the armed forces, fire, explosions, people dressed up like SWAT members, and American flags

These tactical products tend to cost a lot more than regular products and usually offer nothing other than tacky looks.

On 14 July, 2019, there was one of the frequent shootings on Chicago's West Side, in the Austin Neighborhood. A 22-year-old was killed. Bullets also hit State Representative La Shawn Ford's car. Representative Ford (D-Chicago), has been ambivalent about concealed carry in the City. He has been a representative for the past 12 years. He ran for mayor in 2019 but lost the election. In 2011, he was ambivalent about a concealed carry permit bill. He eventually voted present rather than vote against it.

Representative Ford sponsored and passed a bill creating a Violence Prevention Task Force in 2013.

On the Mancow Show, on WLS, he said he is encouraging people in his neighborhood to obtain concealed carry licenses so they can defend themselves. From wlsam.com:

Ford tells The Mancow Show on WLS-AM 890 that he is encouraging his residents to arm themselves against the violence.

“I think about it all the time,” Ford said of the shootings that plague his community. “That’s why I’m working with a concealed carry instructor and we’re going to go through the neighborhood and we’re going to encourage people to get their concealed carry license because it makes no sense for people not to have the protections that they need.”

DispositionMatrix wrote: Mon Jul 22, 2019 4:33 pm

K9s wrote: Mon Apr 08, 2019 6:35 pm I read that 31 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend. The new mayor said she wants to solve this by focusing on poverty and social problems. I don't think she mentioned gun laws. The Dems around her are clamoring for new gun laws.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/us/c ... tfoot.html

“If people don’t feel safe, they’re not going to stay,” Ms. Lightfoot said on Monday of gun violence. “If people don’t feel safe, they’re not going to have hope. If people don’t feel safe, they’re not going to invest.”

“Fundamentally, if people don’t feel like their lives are valued and they don’t value their lives, they’re not going to value their neighbors’ lives. So we have to disrupt that mentality and the only way that I know how to do it is to do it with investment.”

Now she says the need is for federal restrictions that would prevent people from purchasing "military-grade" firearms across the state line in Indiana.
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/ ... 45925?s=20

‘We have to treat this epidemic of violence that we’re seeing as a public health crisis.’ —
@chicagosmayor
Lori Lightfoot wants to reframe violence in the city so officials can get to the real root of the problem and fix it

K9s wrote: Wed Jul 24, 2019 4:23 pm Your quotes don't seem to support your claim. I don't doubt that she, like every other anti-gunner, might blame red states. The quotes all seem to blame poverty, not Indiana.

I googled it and see a lot of gun-site blogs and Hannity claiming she blames Indiana. I see her quotes blaming poverty.

K9s wrote: Wed Jul 24, 2019 4:23 pm Your quotes don't seem to support your claim. I don't doubt that she, like every other anti-gunner, might blame red states. The quotes all seem to blame poverty, not Indiana.

I googled it and see a lot of gun-site blogs and Hannity claiming she blames Indiana. I see her quotes blaming poverty.

NegativeApproach wrote: Thu Jul 25, 2019 10:02 am Outside of a couple of gangs on 47th st a few years ago (including one that shot at a cop) rifles are NOT used in gang violence with any regularity.