Chiraq…

The gangs are apparently upping the ante, yet again…

August of 2016 was one shooting with a rifle…

Then it escalated.

Two gangs — the Saints and La Razas — had been sporadically using rifles for six months. This would be the fourth rifle shooting in seven days. It would get much worse in the months ahead, something an officer at the scene seemed to sense.

Within a month, six more people would be wounded by rifles, three of them fatally. By year’s end, the toll from rifles would rise to nearly 20 wounded and 10 killed — and would keep rising.

Nearly a year and a half later, more than 140 people have been shot — 50 of them fatally — by gang members wielding rifles as their use has spread across the South and Southwest sides of Chicago.

Full article, HERE.

And then there is THIS set of interviews via HuffPo, of black gun owners. I noticed they didn’t interview a single black from Chicago, nor black instructors like Rick Ector, of Legally Armed In Detroit, or Kenn Blanchard, of Black Man with a Gun. Nor did I see any interview with a veteran… I know a number of black veterans that routinely carry in various states, and have never had a problem with law enforcement!

Personally, I think there is a ‘fear’ slant to the HuffPo article I that I find really frustrating, almost as if they (HuffPo) don’t want guns in any hands… But that may just be me. It’s almost as if Black Democrats – with or without the power of public office – who are most actively trying to keep guns out of the hands of black folks. Of course, I don’t discount the men behind the curtain, such as Bloomberg and Soros.

YMMV… As always…

Comments

Chiraq… — 13 Comments

  1. Nah, this is gosh durn honest news reporting, no bias at all …

  2. Reporting over the past decade always requires an underlying agenda before they launch off on an article. It requires coordination between reporters and editors. “Firearms=bad” is almost always the underlying point. The forces of evil, among which is Media Matters, rewards this coverage in many cases, with cash. It means that we who hope to glean something from the ‘news’ must read it with that understanding in place. Many people just swallow the lies whole and come away with a distorted lensing of what’s going on in America. It’s why President Trump tweets (annoying as it is). He’s disturbed and tries to set the record straight outside of that media filter.

  3. Huffpo doesn’t want any guns for anyone. Even the Popo. They swing far left. In fact, I think they swing right out of reality. And why is it a race thing now? We color code gun owners? Why? Because they want to show it is a “white culture” problem? Oy. I just don’t like the fact they do not use common sense or facts, but skew it all into a fear mongering piece. And there are SO MANY people who think Huffpo is the gospel of fact reporting and truth. Oy. IN the meantime, its time for me to buy more guns and ammo. snork.

  4. The gangs may not be rocket scientists but they’re not stupid.
    A rifle offers them a lot of advantages being far more lethal, much easier to shoot with some degree of accuracy, faster accurate follow up shots etc. The rifle’s disadvantage in being difficult to conceal is of little importance when the police patrols are rare and the cops are heavily restricted by bleeding heart liberal politicians.

  5. The gangs have also been sending members to enlist in the Army or Marines, giving them experienced combat veterans for leading and training. The military has been seeing more enlistees with gang tattoos. Many of those want to go straight, and the military is one of the traditional ways for that to happen, but some go back to the gangs.

  6. Hmmm…
    The gangs are forming alliances.
    That might actually do more than anything else to end the shootings. At least, those shootings which are battles over who controls the drug traffic in an area. If the gangs form alliances, maybe they are being realistic about how to distribute the proceeds of criminal activity. And if they are arming UP, going with .223 instead of 9 mm, maybe they will be impressive enough to prevent usurpers from horning in.
    On the other hand, if they get rambunctious with it, they might get stomped hard. The alderman said of the 10 people shot at the memorial service for the dead gang member “No innocents lost their lives,” which I interpret to man he also wasn’t that invested in getting the crime solved. That attitude will change quickly if cops and citizens start expiring at the rate of the ‘non-innocents.’ Surveillance systems and Quick Reaction Forces which move out when a van/SUV of the ‘rammer’ type appears will at the very least make them come up with a different delivery method.

    • Well before the first government tear is shed for non-combatant deaths, the NCs will do one of two things:

      A) Move out of range. Chicongo is a rapidly declining cesspool, and the slope isn’t just slippery, it’s nearly vertical. Or;

      B) The NCs will gun and molotov up and start doing the job the cops and courts refuse to do; when – and IF – it begins, it will be conducted in a manner that will make 1945 Berlin look like a church picnic, and the cops won’t be exempt – they’re just another criminal gang to be dealt with.

  7. They say they want to cut down on guns, but it seems to be only legally acquired ones.