19 killed, 63 wounded in Chicago weekend gun violence
Nineteen people were killed and at least 63 others were wounded by gun violence in Chicago’s most violent weekend of the year so far, the Chicago-Sun-Times reported.
More than half of the weekend’s victims were shot on Sunday following violent protests Saturday night that led to hundreds of arrests and a curfew.
The victims included an 18-year-old woman shot in the head late Sunday on the West Side and two men, ages 39 and 31, shot in the head Sunday in Calumet Heights on the South Side when someone in an SUV pulled up and opened fire on their vehicle, police said.
L. Kahn • Jul 28, 2020 at 9:46 am
Just a note to clarify-the 82 most recent victims were not killed or wounded by gun violence. They were killed or wounded by people. People who made the decision to wound or kill other people and were tragically successful in doing so. It’s a small point maybe, but to say the victims were destroyed by some inchoate, vaguely supernatural phenomenon that nevertheless is able to act in the physical world, is to strip the victims of the human importance of their loss, and to relieve the human perpetrators of responsibility for their acts, thus making it easier for future perpetrators to assuage their own consciences as they decide whether or not to shoot still other human beings.
Lance Coardill • Jun 1, 2020 at 3:12 pm
As if this news isn’t enough to send you packing for downstate Oblong, IL, watching the human excrament looting stores Anaheim to Zionville made my stomach sick. Seems as though the miscreats, the human cockroaches and null sets whose public aid and SSI won’t cover the desired Air Jordans, IPhone 11s and moon pies found a new way to stretch those dollars. Nothing a crow bar to a plate glass window or manhole cover through a side door cannot accomplish.
My CPD friends tell me that both Mayor Lightfoot and the new police superintendent, David Brown, are non-entities to them. One seems more hopeless than the other. One can tell our Commander in Chief to fornicate himself while the other seems an empty suit with a smoothly shaved pate and an oratorial style that makes William Jennings Bryan sound like Forest Gump. Plaudits to him, but he seems way in over his head. Rome burns and Nero fiddles. Actually, Chicago burns, quite literally and Lightfoot sulks. She and her appointee, the largely absent Superintendent Brown, are in way, way over their collective heads and if one didn’t know that two weeks ago there is no denying that fact now. Just ask the strip mall merchants at 53rd and Wentworth and elsewhere in the city while there are still merchants, anywhere, to ask. Pathetic does not begin to describe the leadership , or lack thereof. In the end, we always seem to get the government we deserve.