Don’t fall for the distraction from His Disgrace. It’s politically expedient and self serving for His Disgrace to scold and glower the public on the shooting in Oregon. If he really cared about gun violence, he would look in his own backyard. Literally. Below is a tiny sample of the murders in Chicago this last September. I encourage you to click on this link and poke around the site now and again. And note the names and places of the people. Check everyday, the list interminably grows. At last check, the 2015 the death toll was 374. The site has a list going back to 2012 which had a death total of 509, in 2013 there were 422 murders. 426 in 2014.
Going by my math, that’s 1731 people murdered since 2012 and counting. Yet His Disgrace is silent. That’s funny. Wonder why. Might it be because those murders don’t fit his political narrative of necessitating for “stricter gun laws” because, as is well known, Illinois and Chicago in particular already have some of the strictest gun laws in the nation? Someone more cynical might suggest his silence stems from his view that Democrats don’t need those voters anyway. The Democrats already have the black vote, why bother. Plus Democrats have been in control of Chicago for at least my lifetime (full disclosure, I grew up in Chicagoland), so why shine the bright lights emanating from his podium on yet another blighted example of Democrat rule? Someone my put two and two together and find out the answer is corrupt, incompetent Democrats. Best to keep quiet so as no one notices and His Disgrace won’t feel the need to conjure up another distraction.
So he talks about Oregon, run by a Democrat but still surviving…for now.
But I digress. The abstract numbers don’t seem to call attention to the problem of gun violence in Chicago, so let’s gets specific.
Meet John Buckner. On September 16, 2015 John Buckner, 59, was shot while unloading groceries with his wife.
Age: 59 years
Race: Black
Cause: Shooting
Neighborhood: Morgan Park
Time: 08:45 PM
Occurrence Address:
11500 S. Church St
Here’s Patricia Chew, 23 year old mother of one with another on the way. She was murdered with her mother while preparing for a cookout on September 28, 2015.
Age: 23 years
Race: Black
Cause: Shooting
Neighborhood: Back of the Yards
Time: 07:00 PM
Occurrence Address:
5300 S. Aberdeen St
Here’s Tyjuan Lewis a mailman, father of many. Shot outside his home on September 20, 2015
Age: 43 years
Race: Black
Cause: Shooting
Neighborhood: Roseland
Time: 09:40 PM
Occurrence Address:
10100 S. Calumet Ave.
May they all rest in peace and may God help this nation. We really need it. And really, check out this site. It’s important to not lose the faces in the numbers. http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2015-chicago-murders/timeline?mon=9.