Not a single law-abiding citizen committed these shootings, yet Obama wants to take guns from law-abiding citizens?
Obama is a freaking drive-by gangsta!

37 shot in city over weekend :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Chicago Crime

Weekend of rage
CRIME WAVE | 32 shot in city, six of them fatally, since Friday

April 21, 2008
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BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN AND LISA DONOVAN Staff Reporters

In gang-related drive-bys, an attempted robbery and other flashes of violence, some 37 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend -- seven of them fatally.

A 26-year-old was killed in his home, two teens on the same South Side street, another man as he sat in the office of his plumbing business.

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Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis (right) speaks at a press conference about the number of shootings and stabbings that occurred in the city over the weekend. First Deputy Supt. James Jackson stands behind Weis.
(Keith Hale/Sun-Times)



Chicago Police officials acknowledged that the nearly three dozen shootings were high for a short time frame but not unusual when the mercury starts rising.

“Although our recent crime data released on Friday showed that murders and shootings are slightly down, as you all know, one shooting, one murder is one too many,” Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis said Sunday.

“We know that warmer temperatures are a contributing factor. More outdoor activity [means] more opportunities for crimes to occur. . . . No city is immune from the proliferation of illegal guns, gangs and drugs.”

The Sun-Times recorded at least 37 shootings from noon Friday to late Sunday evening, including seven fatal ones. A man and woman were also stabbed. But Weis said police record their data in 24-hour cycles, noting that the shootings must be further examined to weed out the self-inflicted injuries or accidental gun discharges.

There were 22 shootings between midnight Friday and midnight Saturday, and four more between midnight and 7 a.m. Sunday, Weis said. Four of the 26 shootings were fatal, and at least three were not gang-related. Seven victims were juveniles, and of those shootings, five were after curfew, he said.

Last year, during the same 24-hour period in April, there were 19 shootings.

In 2006, there were 21, Weis said, adding that there were an average of 20 to 22 shootings on recent July weekends.

For the first three months of 2008, murders fell 1.1 percent and aggravated batteries decreased 0.8 percent, when compared with the first three months of 2007. Overall, crime was up 1.9 percent this year, according to crime statistics released last week.

As violence surged Friday, Weis said commanders redeployed gang and tactical teams, targeted response units in critical districts.

First Deputy Supt. James Jackson also said the department’s violence reduction strategy is in place, including more bicycle and foot patrols in high-crime areas and gang investigations. “We will definitely be targeting the leaders,” James said.

The assurances weren’t enough for Regina Bolling.

Bolling attended to 34-year-old Marcus Hendricks as he lay gasping for air after a gunman -- a plumber, according to court records -- allegedly shot him in the abdomen with an AK-47 as he sat in his South Side office Friday.

“It was just really emotional. He looked like a man in shock. . . . His eyes were really wide,” Bolling said.

Bolling was getting her hair done next door when she heard the boom and saw the alleged gunman, Bennie Teague, run out of the office, at 714 W. 115th Pl. Teague, whom Hendricks allegedly hired last summer, was ordered held without bail Sunday in connection with the murder and shooting at three police officers later that evening.

“There’s way too much violence,” said Bolling, 41. “I think the police should pay more attention than do the other stupid things that they do.”

Hendricks’ older sister, Cynthia Flowers, disagreed. She credited Weis with “doing the best” he can and said she was “proud” of police for apprehending Teague so quickly.

“I just hope people are outraged by the numbers and that thinking people become fed up with non-thinking people who are terrorizing us. It’s sickening to me that people are out there with assault weapons out on the street,” Flowers said.

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I noticed this bit of news coming out of Chicago, 22 shot in span of 11 hours,
Chicago is one of those American city's that people who live there love it, but the rest of us on the outside get this kind of news from it so often that we are timid to set foot in it.

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I would want to be armed with a concealed weapon in that town.

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According to the anti-gun "experts", Chicago should be a safe city. After all, they completely banned private possession or sale of handguns 16 years ago, and they lead the nation in gun confiscations with an average of 10,800 per year for the past decade. (Source: Chicagomag.com Bang! - Chicago Magazine - March 2008 - Chicago )

Not a single law-abiding citizen committed a crime in Chicago

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Of course.....How better to give your constituents a leg up, then to supply them with the upper hand.

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Muslims aren't dying from war....they're being murdered by members of their own cult.

How is it giving your costituents a leg up by not allowing them to protect their property or family?

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I was being facetious, in that Obama's followers are not the law abiding.....sorry if that was unclear except to myself.

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"Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah." ~ Qur'an:8:39

Muslims aren't dying from war....they're being murdered by members of their own cult.

I live in chicago.... I know people with guns and know where the nearest NRA shop is.
none of these law abiding citizens with guns do anything to limit crime. quit making it sound like if more people had guns there would be less crime.

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Law-abiding citizens do not commit gun crimes. Why take their guns?

Despite its ban, Chicago tops the nation in confiscated firearms. Last year, Chicago police seized about 7,400 guns and received 6,000 at voluntary turn-ins. Over the past decade, Chicago police have confiscated an average of 10,800 guns per year. Chicago Police spokeswoman Monique Bond sees the high confiscation numbers as evidence that guns are ubiquitous here: "Anyone can get a gun," she says. "You can get a gun like you can get expensive sneakers." But she insists those statistics also reflect that law enforcement has been aggressively cracking down on guns in the city.

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