Over 100 people were shot in Chicago last weekend, including 18 fatally.

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[Dashinka 24,478]

I really don't understand the reference.  This was all Nixon's fault?  Hasn't Nixon been dead for years?  I guess I will chalk it up to DEI Democrats.

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The short version is that it is everyone's else's fault despite the Dems having control for decades/centuries?

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And yet there is no outrage from the gun legislation lobby. It’s just business as usual, nothing to see here. It’s not the existing gun legislation failing to protect the citizenry. It’s just another holiday weekend in Chicago.

 

The silence is deafening. Because they (the Democrat mayor, council and the gun legislation lobby) know that they do not want to address the root causes of the ongoing violence. To do so would cost them politically, in resistance from the populace to change, in the resistance to the populace to reducing/removing the social and welfare programs that have rendered employment income unnecessary and in the acknowledgement that additional firearm legislation is merely a dog-whistle for getting votes and would have no measurable impact on the death toll. In short, they would lose control. They would lose power. And that, to them, is unconscionable.

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18 hours ago, Pooky said:

And yet there is no outrage from the gun legislation lobby. It’s just business as usual, nothing to see here. It’s not the existing gun legislation failing to protect the citizenry. It’s just another holiday weekend in Chicago.

 

The silence is deafening. Because they (the Democrat mayor, council and the gun legislation lobby) know that they do not want to address the root causes of the ongoing violence. To do so would cost them politically, in resistance from the populace to change, in the resistance to the populace to reducing/removing the social and welfare programs that have rendered employment income unnecessary and in the acknowledgement that additional firearm legislation is merely a dog-whistle for getting votes and would have no measurable impact on the death toll. In short, they would lose control. They would lose power. And that, to them, is unconscionable.

Power corrupts....  Particularly if one has a "D" next to their name.