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And the libs still chanting defund the police.

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And the libs still chanting defund the police.

False. Very few liberals have ever called for this. Just as very few conservatives have ever called for the military to overturn an election.

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Gun Advocates, please go ahead and tell me that guns in America are not a National Security Threat!!

This is no different than Honduras, El Salvador, Israel or any other place were criminal, settlers, and gangsters are the law.

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In Portland, shootings are up 126% YTD 

In Los Angeles, shootings are up 47% YTD 

In New York City shootings are up 43%YTD 

In Atlanta, shootings are up 40% YTD 

In Philadelphia, shootings are up 29% YTD 

"The common thread these are all cities run by Democrat Mayors."

But Democrats still believe in defunding the police, and this is why gun sales in these States are through the roof and as long as this continues and people have to defend themselves, don’t inspect these numbers to go down. Less police equals more crime.

-FBI.gov

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How about Dallas Bass? Strange that you forgot to include those stats.

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Send the Afghanistan returners in and clean up that Ghetto once and for all. Maybe they have a little more success on own soil.

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This is a false duality,

No, it’s absolutely true. All of e biggest cities as I have stated and these are FBI crime stats, irrefutable, less police you are seeing a crime surge, but if the left wants to ignore it, this will definitely put Republicans in power so fast, they’re banking on it and to further that point, a lot of police that have quit are going into private security, pays more and you still get to do the job you love, you’re just protecting a few individuals and not the entire community, everyone else less fortunate will have to rely on the 2nd amendment.

which appeals to those who are incapable of understanding nuance. These same people tend to blame “libs” and democrats for all the ills of society.

When it comes to social and economic issues, yes. But if you can tell us which communities especially with minorities in them are now doing exceptionally well or even better since this administration took power, which ones?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/democrats-mean-it-when-they-say-they-want-to-defund-or-abolish-the-police/ar-BB1fCbLU

They also think more firearms is the answer to firearm violence because that makes complete sense.

They are if you don’t have police to protect you.

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and these are FBI crime stats

A fan of the FBI now I see. How surprising.

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Send the Afghanistan returners in and clean up that Ghetto once and for all. Maybe they have a little more success on own soil.

3 people already have upvoted Martial Law against “ghetto” people on American soil.

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But Democrats still believe in defunding the police,

Says who?

don’t inspect these numbers to go down. Less police equals more crime.

Fewer guns equals less crime. But I inspect the gun manufacturing lobby will not allow this to happen.

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A fan of the FBI now I see. How surprising

Not at all, but on the rising crime stats their stats as well as police crime stats are pretty much all aligned. The same pattern, which indicates these stats are not just true, but scarily and alarming.

Dallas Fort Worth July 4 crime: 23 people shot, 5 fatally. Dallas violent crime in 2021 on track to outpace last year.

Dallas FW which is one of the 2nd largest liberal city after Austin. Again, you’re proving my point.

Says who?

Says Democrats

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/07/us-cities-defund-police-transferring-money-community.

Fewer guns equals less crime.

Tell that to the criminals and the rising crime stats. Regardless of what some Washington political hack is trying to indoctrinate to us.

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Dallas FW which is one of the 2nd largest liberal city after Austin. Again, you’re proving my point

When gun violence happens in a Democrat state it is their responsibility. When it happens in a Republican state it is because of liberals. Gotcha.

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Interesting that they didn't give a racial breakdown for the shooters and victims.

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Bob FosseToday  09:18 am JST

Dallas FW which is one of the 2nd largest liberal city after Austin. Again, you’re proving my point

When gun violence happens in a Democrat state it is their responsibility. When it happens in a Republican state it is because of liberals. Gotcha.

Just as a brush-up on geography, Dallas FW, and Austin are not states. They are left leaning cities. As is Chicago.

As is seen throughout the US, criminals are getting emboldened and committing more crimes in all States.

19 million new guns were purchased so far this year.

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When gun violence happens in a Democrat state it is their responsibility. When it happens in a Republican state it is because of liberals. Gotcha.

Yes, in the same way as in the case of Orange County, California. Safe, clean, prosperous, low crime, Republicans are responsible for keeping it and upholding the safety and integrity of that county.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/07/us-cities-defund-police-transferring-money-community

Portland, Oregon, cut $15m from its budget and disbandeda gun violence reduction unit and transit team that had both long been accused of over-policing Black communities. San Francisco officials pledged to divest $120m from police over two years with plans to invest in health programs and workforce training. Minneapolis is using police cuts to launch a mental health team to respond to certain 911 calls.

New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Baltimore and a dozen other cities have all also reduced police spending. And some of these cities are now demonstrating the impacts of their new budgets.

How Austin is spending police funds

Austin, Texas, has made some of the most dramatic changes in the country, directly cutting roughly $20m from the police department, and moving $80m from the agency by shifting certain services out of law enforcement. The city has gone from spending 40% of its $1.1bn general fund on police to now allocating about 26% to law enforcement.

Again, when police that are outgoing tell the citizens to arm themselves you know it’s about to hit the roof. This just continues to help Republicans.

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I'd move to somewhere safer like Taliban controlled Afghanistan or Mogadishu.

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@Bob Fosse: How about Dallas Bass? Strange that you forgot to include those stats.

@zichi: Dallas Fort Worth July 4 crime: 23 people shot, 5 fatally. Dallas violent crime in 2021 on track to outpace last year.

Given that Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson is a Dem and the city is run by a Dem controlled city council, you guys are making Bass’ point for him. A rare moment of consensus. Progressive cities got caught up in the anti-police propaganda put out by BLM in the wake of George Floyd’s murder (in a dyed in the wool Progressive run city by the way). The Leftist media was all in on defund the police and attacking the qualified immunity that the politicians retain for themselves. Can’t rewrite history now.

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Dallas FW which is one of the 2nd largest liberal city after Austin. Again, you’re proving my point.

Bravo! Bass4funk.

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kurumazakaToday  09:10 am JST

No they are not.

have tried to explain this before, but “woke libs” (neo liberals) and the “progressive left” (lean euro style social dem) are not the same people. The progressive left thinks as little of woke libs as you do, Commodore.

”Defund the police” comes from the progressive left.

Good points.

Police Superintendent David Brown put much of the blame for the gun violence on a court system that allows people charged with violent crimes, including murder, to be released from custody on electronic monitoring.

I agree with this police superintendent too. These shootings are done by criminals. He is not blaming the guns.

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3 people already have upvoted Martial Law against “ghetto” people on American soil.

18 dead in 1 city in 1 weekend including a 7 year old girl. Why do I find zero sympathy or solutions on your part? What is being fixed by the mayor?

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Just as a brush-up on geography, Dallas FW, and Austin are not states. They are left leaning cities. As is Chicago.

Just as a brush up on reading skills, I never claimed otherwise. You’re making things up again.

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18 dead in 1 city in 1 weekend including a 7 year old girl. Why do I find zero sympathy or solutions on your part? What is being fixed by the mayor?

It’s odd how the ‘freedom lovers’ and ‘free thinkers’ are advocating using US troops against their own citizens in their own cities.

That’s your solution is it?

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"The common thread these are all cities run by Democrat Mayors."

With a good number of their population gun-loving, angry, ready-to-fight MAGA-Maniacs....

-FBI.gov

Whom you have said for four years were a bunch of corrupt, Hillary-loving Democrats....

Flip-flop, flip-flop...

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Large cities will nearly always have higher crime rates than rural areas whether it's New York, London, or Moscow. Last I checked Democrats only ran one of those.

Let's see what's happening with crime in major cities in the US, ranked by population.

To find your first Republican mayor, you have to go all the way down to #14 Jacksonville, FL. How's crime doing in that GOP wonderland? "With a crime rate of 40 per one thousand residents, Jacksonville has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes"

Next up is Ft. Worth, Texas at #15. "2019 we had 71 homicides for the entire year. We had 115 last year. It had been a quarter century since we saw triple digits like that. Those are numbers that are absolutely unacceptable,”"

Oklahoma City at #27? "Despite having almost exactly the same number of residents as Portland, Oklahoma City had a violent crime rate 67% higher and a murder rate more than double that of Portland, according to the most recent complete FBI statistics from 2018."

Next? Fresno, CA at #35. "Violent crime on the rise in Fresno; city sees worst murder rate in 16 years (2020)"

See? Those awesome GOP policies really keep crime low in the major cities they run.

Will data do anything to change conservatives' minds? Nope. Not one bit.

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hey Chicago is finally "on topic".

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not that the liberals here didnt immediately name every other city they could think of BUT Chicago and start politicizing it to deflect.

See? Those awesome GOP policies really keep crime low in the major cities they run.

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It is interesting that using troops returning from Afghanistan was suggested.

Afghanistan was beyond saving and most people seem to be applauding giving up and leaving them to it.

The US is beyond saving too apparently. My solution is don’t go there.

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The idea that this is a fixable problem is ridiculous.

America has decided its ok with guns. But Americans complain about the violence. Freedom of access to guns without the requisite training, rules, and restrictions unavoidably leads to gun violence. America has decided this is ok, so the idea that this is a problem is broken. There is no problem. This is the choice that has been made.

It's like quitting your job then having a problem with no money. These two things go hand in hand.

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@SuperLib: Large cities will nearly always have higher crime rates than rural areas whether it's New York, London, or Moscow. Last I checked Democrats only ran one of those.

Okay - so 30 years ago Republicans take over NY City which was in the grip of a crime wave and urban decay. The crime rate plummeted. Democrats retake control of the city and crime rates surge again. There is a pattern here if one were open minded enough to see it.

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It’s odd how the ‘freedom lovers’ and ‘free thinkers’ are advocating using US troops against their own citizens in their own cities.

Liberals applauded when US troops are used to stop QAnon and these other groups, so why is that Ok?

Large cities will nearly always have higher crime rates than rural areas whether it's New York, London, or Moscow. Last I checked Democrats only ran one of those.

Not the ones I listed.

Let's see what's happening with crime in major cities in the US, ranked by population.

To find your first Republican mayor, you have to go all the way down to #14 Jacksonville, FL. How's crime doing in that GOP wonderland? "With a crime rate of 40 per one thousand residents, Jacksonville has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes"

Ok, you’re deflecting once again, why is crime so high and out of control in the LARGEST cities in the US? Cities that are controlled by Democrats, don’t deflect, stay on the largest most visited, most populated cities, no one is disputing that smaller cities don’t have their share of crime, we are talking where most of population works, most educated go to school, have the best access to resources

Next up is Ft. Worth, Texas at #15. "2019 we had 71 homicides for the entire year. We had 115 last year. It had been a quarter century since we saw triple digits like that. Those are numbers that are absolutely unacceptable,”"

Another liberal stronghold like Austin, continue to further my point.

Oklahoma City at #27? "Despite having almost exactly the same number of residents as Portland, Oklahoma City had a violent crime rate 67% higher and a murder rate more than double that of Portland, according to the most recent complete FBI statistics from 2018."

Next? Fresno, CA at #35. "Violent crime on the rise in Fresno; city sees worst murder rate in 16 years (2020)"

See? Those awesome GOP policies really keep crime low in the major cities they run.

You have two smaller cities compared to the largest mobile and vibrant cities with the largest minority communities, so why is the crime off the charts and why are the Democrats wanting so much to defund the police in these heavily high crime cities?

Will data do anything to change conservatives' minds? Nope. Not one bit.

There is Data, but as long as Democrats refuse to address these issues, all of these largest cities will rival Chicago in no time and with fewer police, new gun stores will be opening faster than you can blink. You want less crime, don’t defund the police, you want less shooting, enact the laws that are already on the books.

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The sad thing is that Trump kicked this problem down the road for others to deal with, and now people are dying daily as a result of his inaction.

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black: not that the liberals here didnt immediately name every other city they could think of BUT Chicago and start politicizing it to deflect.

Did I do that? I simply researched the top 100 cities in the US by population, found out who their mayor was, then when down the list with the first four Republicans I saw. Then I researched their recent crime rates. Naturally I already knew their crime was increasing without research because it's increasing in all large cities.

What I objected to is this notion that large cities run by Republicans somehow produced lower crime rates, as if switching out the mayor of Chicago for a Republican would change anything.

The fact is that large citing have and will always have higher crime rates. It doesn't matter if there are only 25 Republican mayors or 50 or 100. Everyone has the same problem worldwide.

To say otherwise, now that's politicizing it.

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Wolfpack: Okay - so 30 years ago Republicans take over NY City which was in the grip of a crime wave and urban decay. The crime rate plummeted. Democrats retake control of the city and crime rates surge again. There is a pattern here if one were open minded enough to see it.

How silly.

Crime decreased across the entire US 30 years ago. Everyone knows that.

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See? Those awesome GOP policies really keep crime low in the major cities they run.

So basically, Republicans aren't competent enough to get elected to run big cities, and when they do get elected, the cities have extremely higher crime rates than demoractic run cities of similar sizes.

Oh dear, that destroys blacklabel and Bass' narrative.

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Large cities will nearly always have higher crime rates than rural areas whether it's New York, London, or Moscow.

Last I checked Democrats only ran one of those.Okay - so 30 years ago Republicans take over NY City which was in the grip of a crime wave and urban decay. The crime rate plummeted

Superlib pointed out that bigger cities have a larger crime rate. You pointed out how the crime rate in a big city changed relevant to itself. To counter Superlib's point, you would have to show how the crime rate in NY dropped more under a Republican mayor than it dropped under similarly sized Democratic cities, or that it raised under Democratic cities at that time.

Your comparison of NY to itself is like saying a kid is tall because last year he was one height, and this year he is another. If he's only 3' tall though, then he's not tall even if he grew.

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I asked a Chicago cop who worked the rough neighborhoods what a typical day was like. He told me that it was just constantly disarming youths / teens of weapons along with public relations. I asked him if they arrested the ones with guns on them, and he told me they didn't. I asked him why not and he told me that there were just too many. And, he told me, a short time after having been disarmed that most would be armed again in a short time. It's all part of the gang culture on the streets of Chicago, and, he said, it was just a flood when it came to weapons. They're everywhere.

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Crime decreased across the entire US 30 years ago. Everyone knows that.

Yet crime is going up! How can that be - crime has been going down for 30 years. But the Progressive BLM, defund police renaissance in recent years has led to increased crime. That goes against the Progressive social justice narrative. Tell the people the cops are racist, the country is systemically racist, all white people are oppressors, and you must discriminate to end discrimination and viola - a better America. But instead we get rising crime and social chaos.

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Yet crime is going up! How can that be - crime has been going down for 30 years.

You do realize there was a pandemic last year, when pretty much everyone stayed home, right?

Darn, did I accidentally destroy another narrative? My bad.

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instead we get rising crime and social chaos.

Yep. Right-wing terrorists rioted during the BLM protests last year as false flag operations, then tried to execute the vice president as he certified the results of a democratic election.

There's your rising crime and social chaos.

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The sad thing is that Trump kicked this problem down the road

No, he did not, Trump was always for support of the police and wanted more funding for them.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-06-16/trump-to-call-for-increased-funding-for-police-training

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/501701-trump-allies-go-on-attack-over-push-to-defund-the-police

President Trump and his allies on Monday lashed out at activists and some Democrats for their support of the "defund the police" movement, seeking to draw a contrast with the administration's embrace of law enforcement amid nationwide protests.

White House aides and campaign officials sought to tie Democrats to the mantra of "defund the police," which has gained steam on social media and at some protests after George Floyd's death May 25.

"There won’t be defunding. There won’t be dismantling of our police, and there’s not going to be any disbanding of our police. Our police have been letting us live in peace, and we want to make sure we don’t have any bad actors in there," Trump said during a meeting with law enforcement officers and police chiefs at the White House, adding that he believes "99 percent" of officers are "great people.

Crime decreased across the entire US 30 years ago. Everyone knows that.

What??

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/03/us/us-crime-rate-rise-2020/index.html

Major American cities saw a 33% increase in homicides last year as a pandemic swept across the country,

And this during the Pandemic.

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bass: LARGEST cities in the US? Cities that are controlled by Democrats, don’t deflect, 

Sorry, did you put a limit on population? I can see why you'd do that. Once you start reaching GOP controlled cities you'll see crime is increasing there too, so best to stop at the Top 10 and eliminate Republicans from the conversation entirely. From there it's a problem with Democrats.

All I did was list the largest cities run by Republicans to show they also have increasing crime. It's not D or R thing, despite your best efforts.

You have two smaller cities compared to the largest mobile and vibrant cities with the largest minority communities,

Oklahoma City is 74% white, 9% Native American, and 8% black.

Fresno is 60% white, 14% Asian, and 7% black.

What's with all the rising crime in these GOP controlled, mostly white cities?

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No, he did not, Trump was always for support of the police and wanted more funding for them.

Heh, I knew using the term 'kicked the problem down the road for others to deal with' like you guys criticized pre-Trump presidents would trigger you.

There's nothing that triggers a rightie more than using their words and their arguments against them. They HATE it when you play the game according to their rules.

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Almost all of these crimes are drug or gang related or collateral damage of those. And almost all committed with illegal,firearms. So stricter gun laws won’t really help. And blaming white supremacists or MAGA loons is also ridiculous.

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Wow, check this out from a favorite source, the FBI:

"But it’s not just big cities that are seeing rising homicides. According to the FBI data, small cities with fewer than 10,000 residents saw more than a 30 percent increase in killings in the first nine months of this year."

It's almost like it's increasing everywhere despite political leadership, size, demographics, and police funding.

Nah.

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interesting that even NYC ended up with an ex-cop as their probable new Mayor.

That and the horrible polling of Biden and his performance related to Crime should tell liberals something.

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That and the horrible polling of Biden and his performance related to Crime should tell liberals something.

Heh, the same Biden who still has higher approval ratings than Trump ever achieved in four years?

Oops, and there I go pointing out your lack of credibility for having supported the policies of an incompetent failure for four years.

But don't despair, he's about to be reinstated in a month!

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Also interesting that the liberal consensus is leaning towards it being something that no one is responsible for and that there is really nothing that can be done about it.

There was no such lack of ownership or ability to just say nothing we can do during orange man time. He as the President was personally responsible, for EVERYthing.

Now, not so much anymore. Lots of things no one owns and kind of a defeatist attitude that nothng is expected to be done by our "leaders", especially related to crime and the border.

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Sorry, did you put a limit on population? I can see why you'd do that. Once you start reaching GOP controlled cities you'll see crime is increasing there too,

But the problem is every liberal network Is showing the increase in crime in the largest cities and these are cities that are frequent mostly by young people, by tourists, and by people in the private sector and these areas have overwhelmingly A lot of government housing or projects and with the increased poverty rate surrounding these areas, the crime rate is going up and there are many contributing factors to that, not to mention the lack of police, the lack of leader ship, lack of unwilling to prosecute repeat felons, to enforce many of the gun laws that are already on the books, The schools are out of control, most of the children can’t read about the eighth grade level and we are talking about high school, many of them can’t even enter college, the streets are unsafe. Again, No one has ever stated that there is not crime in red states or red controlled cities, not one person stated that, we are talking about disproportionately the higher crimes in the biggest cities in the black population and Latino population for they are size make up, a huge amount and are one of the biggest in Proportion to their population.

so best to stop at the Top 10 and eliminate Republicans from the conversation entirely. From there it's a problem with Democrats.

All I did was list the largest cities run by Republicans to show they also have increasing crime. It's not D or R thing, despite your best efforts.

Yes, you did and I never disputed that, but blacks make up 13% of the population and have the highest crime stat in proportion to that number.

You have two smaller cities compared to the largest mobile and vibrant cities with the largest minority communities,

Oklahoma City is 74% white, 9% Native American, and 8% black. 

https://tulsaworld.com/news/oklahoma-ranks-fifth-highest-in-black-homicides-in-u-s/article_77e9edc0-856c-11e3-b98b-001a4bcf6878.html

Fresno is 60% white, 14% Asian, and 7% black.

https://abc30.com/fresno-violence-violent-crime-gang/10260316/

so we have here yet once again cities where you have a serious gang problem and the city that has a very high incarceration rate and who are the people committing most of these crimes and why, is it lack of opportunity, single-parent home, neglect? These are the problems that democrats absolutely refuse to talk about, they want to deflect and they are unwilling to tackle the problem of the people that are committing most of these crimes and it’s very depressing actually, and as long as Democrats refuse to talk about these issues, the crimes did I committed in these cities will not decrease.

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"But it’s not just big cities that are seeing rising homicides. According to the FBI data, small cities with fewer than 10,000 residents saw more than a 30 percent increase in killings in the first nine months of this year."

Smaller run cities are primarily run by Republicans.

Why are these small Republicans such hell holes and pits of crime?

America is a disaster.

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Crime decreased across the entire US 30 years ago. Everyone knows that.

What??

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/03/us/us-crime-rate-rise-2020/index.html

Just as a quick tip, last year and 30 years ago are not the same thing.

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seeing as it appears that other cities besides Chicago are also on topic, are we pretending we didnt see that video in the San Francisco Neiman Marcus store? People just run in, grab what they want and jump in a waiting car. A Democrat run city is fine with that and has actually passed laws that less than $900 its fine to just take it.

So theft and lack of consequences for it can be a gateway to more serious crimes. At what point does the law start being enforced? we shouldnt be starting at murder, but well before that.

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Smaller run cities are primarily run by Republicans.

Not Orange County, California, not Palm Beach, not Palm Springs, San Diego, not Simi Valley, not Newark, New Jersey, most of the Northeast States, there are thousands of cities, there is not one politician in Washington or in Hollywood that lives anywhere near these violent crime cities, including the black ones, they preach all day, but they never practice with their preaching

Why are these small Republicans such hell holes and pits of crime?

What? If my neighbor as safe as it is a hellhole, I can live with that.

America is a disaster.

Now, more than ever the largest cities are increasingly for sure with each passing day.

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to be clear, Biden's America is a disaster.

Just as the ownership term Trump's America was used previously when he held the same office.

America is a disaster.

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SuperLib: All I did was list the largest cities run by Republicans to show they also have increasing crime. It's not D or R thing, despite your best efforts.

bass: Yes, you did and I never disputed that, 

You literally started off your first post listing selected cities and rising crime rates, then said, ""The common thread these are all cities run by Democrat Mayors."

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And kudos for using the FBI, CNN, and ABC News as sources. It confirms my belief that any article that supports your opinion is a good source, anything that doesn't gets a, "ROLF like I'm going to believe them" response. Even when it's from the same source you've just used yourself.

We'll call it, "situational credibility."

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Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib tweeted this: "No more policing, incarceration, and militarization. It can't be reformed.")

Pretty clear, isnt it?

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So concerned was the White House about the rising crime numbers that President Biden himself addressed the issue in a speech late last month. "Crime historically rises during the summer and as we emerge from this pandemic with the country opening back up again, the traditional summer spike may be more pronounced than it usually would be," Biden said. 

So concerned about being blamed for rising crime (fixed it).

So Joe Biden has spoken.

Its summer time, and the country isnt shut down.

So not much we can do and its not me, come on man.

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Nothing to see here, business as usual. Thoughts and prayers to those affected. The price you pay the the “2nd A” status quo. Carry on.

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Gun violence happens in America due to the uncontrolled access to guns. There are idiots like Abbott out there who want people to carry guns without a license, no surprise gun violence is out of control in Texas.

The crooks who run the NRA take money from their gullible members and ensure that gun violence keeps on increasing. The more the number of people killed by guns, the more they can justify arming their idiots. The more they arm their idiots the more the gun violence, it's a vicious cycle.

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Gun violence happens in America due to the uncontrolled access to guns.

Because existing guns laws are NOT strictly enforced.

There are idiots like Abbott out there who want people to carry guns without a license, no surprise gun violence is out of control in Texas.

Well, it's not out of control in Texas. 

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/crime-rate-by-state

The crooks who run the NRA take money from their gullible members and ensure that gun violence keeps on increasing.

No, the only thing the NRA does and not play the lefts request to disarm ourselves while they live like fat rats behind closed gates, the whitest non-diverse communities with all the private security they can afford, but the rest of law-abiding Americans should be at the mercy of the streets and crime that is destroying the nation? if anything, Biden is helping to strengthen the NRA

The amount of bigotry allowed on this site is ridiculous!!!

Nothing bigot about it. Blacks overwhelmingly vote Democrat, that's not racist, that's an indisputable fact.

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