Chicagos murder rate is not as bad as you think

[squeeze berry]

I thought guns were illegal in Illinois?

There you go thinking again. That must cause you some pain, eh?

I live in Illinois and own many guns. And being country folks we do a lot of hunting and have a lot of fun target shooting every Thanksgiving.

Guns are not banned in Illinois and most folks own them. We do not have a CC law but that is changing soon.

Class dismissed.

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all of Illiinois is Chicago?

 

[NoNukes]

Chicago's murder rate isn't nearly as bad as you think - The Week


However, for all the tragic stories and headlines casting Chicago as the Deadliest City in America, the homicide rate in the Windy City is actually on pace to end the year at its lowest level since the the early 1960s.

Chicago has retained its stigma as a city with an out-of-control murder problem in part because of the shocking nature of the crimes. Many of the city's murders are gang-related, leading to a high number of youth casualties. In the most high-profile case of recent months, Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old girl who had performed at President Obama's second inauguration, was shot and killed by a stray bullet in January.

Through the first four months of the year alone, there were 93 homicides in Chicago. But while that would seem to be a depressingly high tally, it was a 42 percent drop from the previous year. It also marked the first time since 1963 that there were fewer than 100 homicides over the same period.

Since then, the downward trend has continued. May saw an 8 percent decrease in homicides from the previous year, and a 31 percent reduction in total shootings. And through Sunday, there had been 76 fewer murders in Chicago this year than over the same stretch in 2012, a 34 percent decline.

Quit dealing in facts, facts mean nothing to them. They want to believe what they want to believe.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

We do not have a CC law but that is changing soon.

Yeah, sure.

You'll be able to carry without ammo.

 

[DiamondDave]

"It's the type of empirical evidence that could weaken the arguments of gun-control advocates who claim the country's lax gun laws encourage gun violence."

 

[DaGoose]

I thought guns were illegal in Illinois?

There you go thinking again. That must cause you some pain, eh?

I live in Illinois and own many guns. And being country folks we do a lot of hunting and have a lot of fun target shooting every Thanksgiving.

Guns are not banned in Illinois and most folks own them. We do not have a CC law but that is changing soon.

Class dismissed.

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all of Illiinois is Chicago?

Chicago is all of Illinois? And for the record most all of us "downstaters" do not claim Chicago.

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[Katzndogz]

Chicago is a lovely city. A peaceful city. Liberals should move there and revitalize the place.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Chicago's murder rate isn't nearly as bad as you think - The Week


However, for all the tragic stories and headlines casting Chicago as the Deadliest City in America, the homicide rate in the Windy City is actually on pace to end the year at its lowest level since the the early 1960s.

Chicago has retained its stigma as a city with an out-of-control murder problem in part because of the shocking nature of the crimes. Many of the city's murders are gang-related, leading to a high number of youth casualties. In the most high-profile case of recent months, Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old girl who had performed at President Obama's second inauguration, was shot and killed by a stray bullet in January.

Through the first four months of the year alone, there were 93 homicides in Chicago. But while that would seem to be a depressingly high tally, it was a 42 percent drop from the previous year. It also marked the first time since 1963 that there were fewer than 100 homicides over the same period.

Since then, the downward trend has continued. May saw an 8 percent decrease in homicides from the previous year, and a 31 percent reduction in total shootings. And through Sunday, there had been 76 fewer murders in Chicago this year than over the same stretch in 2012, a 34 percent decline.

Yeah, it is bad. 532 people were killed last year in chicago, population 2.7 million compared to the largest city in the US, new york, population 8.3 million, had only 414 homicides.

 

[rightwinger]

Chicago's murder rate isn't nearly as bad as you think - The Week


However, for all the tragic stories and headlines casting Chicago as the Deadliest City in America, the homicide rate in the Windy City is actually on pace to end the year at its lowest level since the the early 1960s.

Chicago has retained its stigma as a city with an out-of-control murder problem in part because of the shocking nature of the crimes. Many of the city's murders are gang-related, leading to a high number of youth casualties. In the most high-profile case of recent months, Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old girl who had performed at President Obama's second inauguration, was shot and killed by a stray bullet in January.

Through the first four months of the year alone, there were 93 homicides in Chicago. But while that would seem to be a depressingly high tally, it was a 42 percent drop from the previous year. It also marked the first time since 1963 that there were fewer than 100 homicides over the same period.

Since then, the downward trend has continued. May saw an 8 percent decrease in homicides from the previous year, and a 31 percent reduction in total shootings. And through Sunday, there had been 76 fewer murders in Chicago this year than over the same stretch in 2012, a 34 percent decline.

Quit dealing in facts, facts mean nothing to them. They want to believe what they want to believe.

I thought posters would be celebrating the fact that Chicago's murder rate is on the decline

I guess you just can't please some people

 

[rightwinger]

Chicago's murder rate isn't nearly as bad as you think - The Week


However, for all the tragic stories and headlines casting Chicago as the Deadliest City in America, the homicide rate in the Windy City is actually on pace to end the year at its lowest level since the the early 1960s.

Chicago has retained its stigma as a city with an out-of-control murder problem in part because of the shocking nature of the crimes. Many of the city's murders are gang-related, leading to a high number of youth casualties. In the most high-profile case of recent months, Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old girl who had performed at President Obama's second inauguration, was shot and killed by a stray bullet in January.

Through the first four months of the year alone, there were 93 homicides in Chicago. But while that would seem to be a depressingly high tally, it was a 42 percent drop from the previous year. It also marked the first time since 1963 that there were fewer than 100 homicides over the same period.

Since then, the downward trend has continued. May saw an 8 percent decrease in homicides from the previous year, and a 31 percent reduction in total shootings. And through Sunday, there had been 76 fewer murders in Chicago this year than over the same stretch in 2012, a 34 percent decline.

Yeah, it is bad. 532 people were killed last year in chicago, population 2.7 million compared to the largest city in the US, new york, population 8.3 million, had only 414 homicides.

Then you must be thrilled that the rate is down 42% this year

 

[DiamondDave]

Chicago's murder rate isn't nearly as bad as you think - The Week


However, for all the tragic stories and headlines casting Chicago as the Deadliest City in America, the homicide rate in the Windy City is actually on pace to end the year at its lowest level since the the early 1960s.

Chicago has retained its stigma as a city with an out-of-control murder problem in part because of the shocking nature of the crimes. Many of the city's murders are gang-related, leading to a high number of youth casualties. In the most high-profile case of recent months, Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old girl who had performed at President Obama's second inauguration, was shot and killed by a stray bullet in January.

Through the first four months of the year alone, there were 93 homicides in Chicago. But while that would seem to be a depressingly high tally, it was a 42 percent drop from the previous year. It also marked the first time since 1963 that there were fewer than 100 homicides over the same period.

Since then, the downward trend has continued. May saw an 8 percent decrease in homicides from the previous year, and a 31 percent reduction in total shootings. And through Sunday, there had been 76 fewer murders in Chicago this year than over the same stretch in 2012, a 34 percent decline.

Quit dealing in facts, facts mean nothing to them. They want to believe what they want to believe.

I thought posters would be celebrating the fact that Chicago's murder rate is on the decline

I guess you just can't please some people

The country's murder rate is on the decline.. in spite of us evil gun nuts having the ability still to buy those scary 'assault rifles', 30 round magazines, etc

 

[Avorysuds]

Now that your anti gun position was proven bad RW hurry and fall back on... Obama killed OBL ALL BY HIMSELF!!!! Hurry RW, it's all you gotz! Oh and that one of the biggest war presidents in US history won the NPP, you can use that again too.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Chicago's murder rate isn't nearly as bad as you think - The Week


However, for all the tragic stories and headlines casting Chicago as the Deadliest City in America, the homicide rate in the Windy City is actually on pace to end the year at its lowest level since the the early 1960s.

Chicago has retained its stigma as a city with an out-of-control murder problem in part because of the shocking nature of the crimes. Many of the city's murders are gang-related, leading to a high number of youth casualties. In the most high-profile case of recent months, Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old girl who had performed at President Obama's second inauguration, was shot and killed by a stray bullet in January.

Through the first four months of the year alone, there were 93 homicides in Chicago. But while that would seem to be a depressingly high tally, it was a 42 percent drop from the previous year. It also marked the first time since 1963 that there were fewer than 100 homicides over the same period.

Since then, the downward trend has continued. May saw an 8 percent decrease in homicides from the previous year, and a 31 percent reduction in total shootings. And through Sunday, there had been 76 fewer murders in Chicago this year than over the same stretch in 2012, a 34 percent decline.

Yeah, it is bad. 532 people were killed last year in chicago, population 2.7 million compared to the largest city in the US, new york, population 8.3 million, had only 414 homicides.

Then you must be thrilled that the rate is down 42% this year

Yes but saying chicago's murder rate is not that bad is deceptive. The homicide in the country is down as a whole.

 

[NoNukes]

Chicago's murder rate isn't nearly as bad as you think - The Week


However, for all the tragic stories and headlines casting Chicago as the Deadliest City in America, the homicide rate in the Windy City is actually on pace to end the year at its lowest level since the the early 1960s.

Chicago has retained its stigma as a city with an out-of-control murder problem in part because of the shocking nature of the crimes. Many of the city's murders are gang-related, leading to a high number of youth casualties. In the most high-profile case of recent months, Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old girl who had performed at President Obama's second inauguration, was shot and killed by a stray bullet in January.

Through the first four months of the year alone, there were 93 homicides in Chicago. But while that would seem to be a depressingly high tally, it was a 42 percent drop from the previous year. It also marked the first time since 1963 that there were fewer than 100 homicides over the same period.

Since then, the downward trend has continued. May saw an 8 percent decrease in homicides from the previous year, and a 31 percent reduction in total shootings. And through Sunday, there had been 76 fewer murders in Chicago this year than over the same stretch in 2012, a 34 percent decline.

Quit dealing in facts, facts mean nothing to them. They want to believe what they want to believe.

I thought posters would be celebrating the fact that Chicago's murder rate is on the decline

I guess you just can't please some people

I guess they realized that the murder rate being down meant that there would be more Blacks around.

 

[DiamondDave]

^^^^^^
Race bait alert

 

[Warrior102]

7 Dead, 30 Wounded in Weekend Violence | NBC Chicago

 

[PaulS1950]

Since the restrictive laws on carrying guns was thrown out by the supreme court the homicides and violent crime have both droppped by 40% or more.......
It seems that guns in the hands of law abiding citizens does lower the violent crime rate.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Chicago's murder rate isn't nearly as bad as you think - The Week


However, for all the tragic stories and headlines casting Chicago as the Deadliest City in America, the homicide rate in the Windy City is actually on pace to end the year at its lowest level since the the early 1960s.

Chicago has retained its stigma as a city with an out-of-control murder problem in part because of the shocking nature of the crimes. Many of the city's murders are gang-related, leading to a high number of youth casualties. In the most high-profile case of recent months, Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old girl who had performed at President Obama's second inauguration, was shot and killed by a stray bullet in January.

Through the first four months of the year alone, there were 93 homicides in Chicago. But while that would seem to be a depressingly high tally, it was a 42 percent drop from the previous year. It also marked the first time since 1963 that there were fewer than 100 homicides over the same period.

Since then, the downward trend has continued. May saw an 8 percent decrease in homicides from the previous year, and a 31 percent reduction in total shootings. And through Sunday, there had been 76 fewer murders in Chicago this year than over the same stretch in 2012, a 34 percent decline.

Quit dealing in facts, facts mean nothing to them. They want to believe what they want to believe.

I thought posters would be celebrating the fact that Chicago's murder rate is on the decline

I guess you just can't please some people

Many of the city's murders are gang-related, leading to a high number of youth casualties.

what gets me is when i tell all these people that post stuff saying how violent and dangerous our streets have become because of gun violence.....i will say take away the Gang violence and this Country is one of the safest on the planet...many dont buy it......here in California they said if you take Gang violence out of the numbers the murder rate goes down something like 60-70 percent....

 

[Wyatt earp]

Chicago's murder rate isn't nearly as bad as you think - The Week


However, for all the tragic stories and headlines casting Chicago as the Deadliest City in America, the homicide rate in the Windy City is actually on pace to end the year at its lowest level since the the early 1960s.

Chicago has retained its stigma as a city with an out-of-control murder problem in part because of the shocking nature of the crimes. Many of the city's murders are gang-related, leading to a high number of youth casualties. In the most high-profile case of recent months, Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old girl who had performed at President Obama's second inauguration, was shot and killed by a stray bullet in January.

Through the first four months of the year alone, there were 93 homicides in Chicago. But while that would seem to be a depressingly high tally, it was a 42 percent drop from the previous year. It also marked the first time since 1963 that there were fewer than 100 homicides over the same period.

Since then, the downward trend has continued. May saw an 8 percent decrease in homicides from the previous year, and a 31 percent reduction in total shootings. And through Sunday, there had been 76 fewer murders in Chicago this year than over the same stretch in 2012, a 34 percent decline.

Tell that great news to the 93 Chicago mothers who lost a offspring this year.

 

[Antares]

Chicago's murder rate isn't nearly as bad as you think - The Week


However, for all the tragic stories and headlines casting Chicago as the Deadliest City in America, the homicide rate in the Windy City is actually on pace to end the year at its lowest level since the the early 1960s.

Chicago has retained its stigma as a city with an out-of-control murder problem in part because of the shocking nature of the crimes. Many of the city's murders are gang-related, leading to a high number of youth casualties. In the most high-profile case of recent months, Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old girl who had performed at President Obama's second inauguration, was shot and killed by a stray bullet in January.

Through the first four months of the year alone, there were 93 homicides in Chicago. But while that would seem to be a depressingly high tally, it was a 42 percent drop from the previous year. It also marked the first time since 1963 that there were fewer than 100 homicides over the same period.

Since then, the downward trend has continued. May saw an 8 percent decrease in homicides from the previous year, and a 31 percent reduction in total shootings. And through Sunday, there had been 76 fewer murders in Chicago this year than over the same stretch in 2012, a 34 percent decline.

Why the fuck would you feel the need to defend a fucking shithole like South Chicago?

Why not just say it sucks but what do we do?

God you people are idiots.

 

[tinydancer]

Quit dealing in facts, facts mean nothing to them. They want to believe what they want to believe.

I thought posters would be celebrating the fact that Chicago's murder rate is on the decline

I guess you just can't please some people

I guess they realized that the murder rate being down meant that there would be more Blacks around.

Oh for crying out loud.