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Laguna
Actually, what we want is to introduce national gun-control measures to prevent gun running. Mexico would appreciate this, too.
Zodiac
Always vote if you don't vote you are relinquished of the right to complain about problems you helped create.
Laguna
My LA-based mother is getting long in the tooth but still spends a month or so in Chicago at an extended-stay hotel every year (after New York, it's her favorite place). She's frail but loves the city. Myths about its dangers are mostly false.
xi-nnie the pooh
I always considered myself middle of the road, but after what the democrats try to pull with the kavenough fiasco, I'm voting republican all the way
Greg Fisher
My friends are all laughing.
That is not true. Einstein never said that. #differing
What are you doing about that?
Serrano
Lets just be real here. You can support President Trump, disagree with him, or even hate him but the Left in this country have become completely deranged and sick. Democrats now are beyond radical, have no agenda, and are just fueled by extreme hatred towards Trump and don't care about the country. If you have any common sense at all you will not vote for these lunatics. Vote Republican and keep America great.
M3M3M3
@Laguna
I have no doubt your mother feels safe in Chicago. I've been there a number of times and I didn't feel in any danger. However, Chicago is a dangerous city statistically, and the uncomfortable reality is that the majority of murders are confined to particular neighborhoods. The homocide victimization rates in certain Chicago neighborhoods is higher than the murder rates in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Mexico and the DRC. It's astounding when you stop to think about it.
Blacklabel
So Kanye goes to the White House to try to do something about this and Trump is receptive to it. But what do liberals do? Mock his mental health and laugh while CNN calls him the “n word” twice.
Daniel Donaldson
Shot & Killed: 400
Shot & Wounded: 2004
Total Shot: 2404
Total Homicides: 465
A person is MURDERED every 14 hours.
That's not safe.
Facts don't care about your mom's anecdotal experience.
Daniel Donaldson
2017 Statistical Facts:
Shot & Killed: 625
Shot & Wounded: 2936
Total Shot: 3561
Total Homicides: 682
2016 Statistical Facts:
Shot & Killed: 722
Shot & Wounded: 3658
Total Shot: 4380
Total Homicides: 808
That's not safe.
Want me to keep going?
Andrew Crisp
This perfectly sums it up
Goodlucktoyou
Great idea, but as black and Hispanic people are unfairly targeted by police and get police records, they can’t vote.
M3M3M3
@Burning Bush
That's very true. I don't know why you would get a thumbs down for your comment.
The only thing I would point out is that you don't even need 51% of the vote. You just need more than any other candidate, even if the majority of the electorate voted against you. Most votes simply don't matter in the American system. In Chicago, any vote for a Republican is a wasted vote, and even an overwhelming supermajority of votes for Democrats is only ever going to yield 1 seat per district. The only winners are the two biggest established parties. The FPTP system is pretty indefensible in my opinion.
FizzBit
Right on daniel!
Been to Chicago many times. It was a great city but went to crap some 25 years ago. A city can only sustain so much illegal immigration and Chicago has a huge Mexican American population. My highway bus coming from Mexico/Texas was attacked, windows smashed, bus driver surrounded and attacked by a mob at the station in this neighborhood outside of downtown. We had to lay on the floor in case there was gunfire.
Daniel Donaldson
Chicago has a population of 2.7 million, 76% is Democrat. 1,528,582 voted for HRC. So a "few thousand protesters" is pathetic and not news worthy.
The last Republican was in office in 1931. Chicago has been a cesspool of murder, drugs, violence and crime for 70+ years.
Chicago blaming Donald Trump for ANYTHING is LUDICROUS. They created this violent mess.Doing the same thing ( voting Democrat ) and expecting different results ( ending drugs and violence) is the definition of insanity. -Albert Einstein.