15 Shot Over Seven Hours in Anti-Gun Chicago

Last year, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said you cannot jail your way out of violence. He called incarceration racist, immoral, and unholy. In other words, people shouldn’t go to prison for their misdeeds.

This, of course, is the same Brandon Johnson who canceled the city’s contract with ShotSpotter because it was racist, yet still hasn’t bothered to find a replacement, like he said he would.

But, hey, I’m sure all of this is working out well. After all, Illinois has a ton of gun control on the books because people in Chicago demanded it. I guess there’s nothing to worry about at all.

Fifteen people were shot, one of them fatally, in gun-controlled Chicago between 11 p.m. Saturday and 6 a.m. Sunday, according to ABC 7.

The shooting victim who succumbed to his wounds, a 43-year-old man, was standing outside with another man “in the Logan Square neighborhood’s 1600-block of North Washtenaw Avenue” when a gunman approached and opened fire shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday.

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Like all of Illinois, Chicago has a 72-hour waiting period on gun purchases, a red flag law, an “assault weapons” ban, a “high capacity” magazine ban, a concealed carry permit requirement, gun storage laws, a “Glock switch” ban, a bump stock ban, and regulations on firearms that Democrats refer to as “ghost guns.”

Moreover, Chicago has city controls and its seat, Cook County, has county controls that give Chicago even more 2A restrictions than other parts of the state.

Oh. Um…whoops?

I mean, it’s almost like Johnson isn’t doing a damned thing to curtail violence in his city, gun control isn’t accomplishing anything, and the criminals that represent the real problem don’t have any interest in following the law.

Granted, ShotSpotter wouldn’t have stopped these shootings from happening. It’s a response tool, not a prevention tool. Still, as noted on Monday, it does help authorities find victims faster than they might otherwise. Without it, someone can linger and die from a wound that they’d survive if treated.

Plus, the police response might catch more of those responsible if the officers are lucky.

Then those people would go to prison, which would mean they couldn’t continue to hurt people while locked up. Imprison enough of the violent people in a city, and guess what happens to violence?

We know that a massive percentage of the violent crime in any city comes from a tiny percentage of the residents of that city. They’re the bad apples spoiling the bunch, and if they’re behind bars, they’re not hurting people on city streets. 

You most definitely can incarcerate your way out of violence, but Johnson is like a lot of leftists. He’s secure in his luxury beliefs because he, personally, doesn’t have to live with the ramifications of them. He grew up in a middle-class community, then became a teacher, which provided him with a way to continue his middle-class lifestyle. When he got into politics, he moved up the class ladder, even further from the day-to-day life of those who have to live with violent crime as a way of life.

He’s not one of those who have to live with 15 shootings in less than a work shift. For him, it’s an abstraction. It’s a report on the news or a page across his desk as mayor. It’s not his neighbor, his co-worker, his friend.

So, he and his progressive allies call for gun control, they discourage actual law enforcement-they don’t see the oxymoron in that, by the way-and pretend the problem is something completely different than the simple fact that they’re living in a world of self-delusion.

Meanwhile, it’s the next generation living in those high-crime neighborhoods who are seeing this and being conditioned to believe it’s normal, thus perpetuating the cycle.

Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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