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Gun Violence Rocks Chicago - AGAIN!!!

Mike

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The level of gun violence in Chicago, which has caused shock waves nationally, is continuing with eight people having been shot in the nation’s third largest city in a 24-hour period that ended Friday morning, including one that ended with the death of a 15-year-old boy.

Chicago police said that the teenager, Patrick Sykes, was shot several times early Thursday afternoon. They said that witnesses offered conflicting versions of what occurred, with the shooters having been either on bicycles or on foot.

Two people were taken into custody for questioning, but they were released without any charges being filed, police said.

The 24-hour period of gun violence also included the shooting of an 18-year-old man, three women and several others.
 

Tam

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Rahm Emanuel Time Magazine Cover: Chicago Mayor Says 'This Is The Happiest I've Ever Been In Public Life'

Posted: 05/30/2013 3:16 pm EDT | Updated: 05/30/2013 3:17 pm EDT

In the cover story of this week's Time magazine, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel told the magazine that -- despite deflating approval ratings, the Windy City's epidemic of gun violence and the dramatic, ongoing battle over mass public school closings -- he is currently "the happiest I’ve ever been in public life."
The former White House Chief of Staff, who is beginning his third year as Chicago mayor, is described in the feature by Time editor-at-large David Von Drehle as "[a]rrogant, chesty, prickly, yes, but never stupid" and his "death stare" also receives a special mention. The story is titled "Rahm Emanuel Left the White House to Run a Broke, Violence-Plagued City, and He’s Having the Time of His Life."

When asked about his ever-rumored presidential aspirations, Emanuel replies, "No. I’m not. Never. It is not happening. I don’t know how else to say it. No." And when asked about his quarrels with the Chicago Teachers Union -- which lead to the city's first teacher strike in 25 years last fall -- he admits "it’s not a strategy the old Rahm would have advised a candidate to follow."

The feature is not the first time Emanuel has granted an interview to a high-profile publication in order to tout his administration's achievements to a national audience. Last September, Emanuel was featured in the Wall Street Journal and described as having a "cool approach" to the Chicago teachers strike. In April 2012, a profile in The Atlantic read "Chicagoans are lining up to buy [Rahm]."

Emanuel said in a Thursday news conference that he embraced how the Time feature depicted him, according to DNAinfo Chicago, particularly the cover's headline that overlays a photo of him standing on an 'L' platform: "Chicago Bull."

"I’m very bullish about Chicago. I’m bullish about our future… I’m bullish about a Chicago that has reached a milestone, where two years in a row, more kids are graduating high school than ever before."

The complete story is behind a paywall on Time's site, but the magazine hits newsstands Friday.

He is proud of the job he is doing let's see some Chicago Headlines

Chicago murder rate far worse than during Al Capone 'gangland' days Friday, February 01, 2013

Chicago's record murder rate: Don't blame guns alone
By Jen Christensen, CNN updated 8:17 PM EDT, Wed April 10, 2013

Chicago's gun violence murder rate eclipses New York's, despite the Big Apple having three times as many people as the Windy City

443 people were shot dead in 2012, with 65 of them being 18 or younger. 'That’s the equivalent of a Newtown every four months,' President Obama said during a recent visit to the city. The frustrated populace is at the mercy of uneasy truces between gangs and an easily accessible flow of guns found in neighboring cities, and is struggling to survive.
By Rich Schapiro / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Sunday, February 24, 2013, 2:00 AM

Chicago Homicide Rate Already Outpacing 2012 Killings In First Week Of 2013
Posted: 01/08/2013 3:04 pm EST | Updated: 01/08/2013 5:11 pm EST

Gun Control is Why Chicago Murder Rates Are Skyrocketing
Charlie Vidal in Politics
5 months ago

Chicago finished out 2012 with a bang, as it passed a major milestone hitting over 500 murders. Chicago has started off 2013 on the wrong foot, with this past week’s murder rate outpacing 2012’s. In the wake of Sandy Hook, many people have called for increased gun control. While they have mostly targeted so called “assault weapons,” proponents of gun control have also sought to further limit handguns. Chicago has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country. Illinois remains the only state in the country where nobody can legally carry a concealed weapon, and lawmakers recently introduced measures to restrict legal gun ownership even more.

Gun control policies don’t work because they disarm citizens while keeping criminals in possession of guns. Chicago’s strict policies have effectively given lawbreakers a monopoly on weapons in many parts of the city that the Chicago Police Department cannot or will not police effectively.

A nice contrast to Chicago for a natural experiment is Houston. Houston is very similar to Chicago in terms of socioeconomic factors such as population, density, and segregation. Houston, like Chicago, is a major center for illegal activities such as the drug trade and human trafficking. Despite all this, Houston has a murder rate two-thirds that of Chicago. This is because the people of Houston are well armed, while innocents in Chicago have been condemned to be sitting ducks.

Chicago has a geographical divide, with most affluent people who reside on the north side of the city surrounding the CTA’s Red and Brown lines refusing to cross into the crime-ridden neighborhoods on the south and west sides. In 2010, Chicago native and rapper Lupe Fiasco agreed with Bill O’Reilly’s controversial statement that certain parts of the city more closely resemble Haiti than the rest of the city.

Proponents of gun control have their heart in the right place. They would like to see fewer people murdered. I'm pretty sure everybody can agree that fewer dead people is a laudable policy goal. Unfortunately, gun control does not achieve this goal. After both the Sandy Hook shooting and the Aurora shooting, calls have come for “common sense” gun control, including a ban on semi-automatic rifles used in the senseless massacres. These weapons have been proven to protect property owners at their homes and business time and time again.

Make no mistake. Any gun deaths are a tragedy, but restricting gun possession does not prevent them. John Lott’s seminal work More Guns, Less Crime found that allowing law-abiding citizens to posses firearms reduces violent crime and causes criminals to turn to crimes which do not involve as much confrontation, such as break-ins. While most proponents of gun control are well intentioned, they are wrong to call for limitations on the possession of weapons by law-abiding citizens.

Rahm says
I’m bullish about a Chicago that has reached a milestone

Is this the milestone he is talking about being proud of? :?
Chicago finished out 2012 with a bang, as it passed a major milestone hitting over 500 murders.
 
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