It's odd how those guns just walk off the shelves and start shooting people. The unexplained thing is why guns have the tendency to do this more in some places than others. Chicago has a major issue with guns walking off the shelf and shooting people.
These shootings have nothing to do with the shooters who are just, in Obama's new euphemism, "justice involved youth" with a "history of non-violent drug offenses" and we really need "sentencing reform" so they can even be more justice involved in non-violent drug offenses like these.
Last Friday to Sunday alone, gun violence has been blamed for eight homicides and 64 non-fatal shootings, according to Chicago police.
As of Sunday, homicides so far this year total 459.
There have been 2,818 shooting victims this year -- just 170 shy of 2015's total of 2,988, according to the Chicago Tribune.
With an average of nearly 82 shootings per week, the city will likely pass last year's mark.
I blame gun companies. If they didn't make guns and if gunpowder had never been invented, the justice-involved youth would be forced to use knives, bows and hatchets in their disputes over non-violent drug offenses.
Others attribute the worsening shooting and murder stats to more brazen gang violence.
Also, relations with minority communities and the Chicago Police Department have been strained since controversy over the shooting death of Laquan McDonald.
The Chicago cops really need to improve relations with justice-involved youth. Preferably by repeatedly shooting them before their non-violent drug offenses lead to another little girl being shot down in the street. And then maybe the FBI can get to work on seeing that the gang of non-violent offenders running the country into the ground get very justice-involved.