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Re: Big shoot up in Colorado
lonrwolf, the situations you cite are not comparable. Oklahoma City, Columbine, and Aurora are not just murders, but <span style="font-weight: bold">mass murders. </span> This is terrorism, not the random murders and collateral gang violence from the inner cities.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: lonrwolf</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
This sick individual is an exception rather than the rule. Ahem! Maybe you should do the math. More than 250 murders in Chicago in the first 6 months of the year? 10 killed on memorial day weekend?...That's one city...can you say Detroit, Washington DC, Baltimore, Philly?
This happens everyday, year after year.
Murders are so normal that they rarely make the headlines
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">As the sun rose Sunday, New York City hit a remarkable milestone, recording just 193 murders in the <span style="font-weight: bold">first six months of the year. In that same span, more than 250 murders were recorded in Chicago—</span>a city just one third as large.
It is the first full crisis of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s term in office, and the cause of growing national concern. <span style="font-weight: bold">More than 40 people were shot there on Memorial Day weekend alone, and 10 of them died</span>. In June, the victims ranged in age from 75-year-old Donald Ellens to 7-year-old Heaven Sutton.</div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Chicago hasn’t seen murders at this pace since <span style="font-weight: bold">2003, when the city suffered 283 homicides by the end of June, </span><span style="font-weight: bold">and 601 over the year</span></div></div> </div></div>
lonrwolf, the situations you cite are not comparable. Oklahoma City, Columbine, and Aurora are not just murders, but <span style="font-weight: bold">mass murders. </span> This is terrorism, not the random murders and collateral gang violence from the inner cities.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: lonrwolf</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
This sick individual is an exception rather than the rule. Ahem! Maybe you should do the math. More than 250 murders in Chicago in the first 6 months of the year? 10 killed on memorial day weekend?...That's one city...can you say Detroit, Washington DC, Baltimore, Philly?
This happens everyday, year after year.
Murders are so normal that they rarely make the headlines
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">As the sun rose Sunday, New York City hit a remarkable milestone, recording just 193 murders in the <span style="font-weight: bold">first six months of the year. In that same span, more than 250 murders were recorded in Chicago—</span>a city just one third as large.
It is the first full crisis of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s term in office, and the cause of growing national concern. <span style="font-weight: bold">More than 40 people were shot there on Memorial Day weekend alone, and 10 of them died</span>. In June, the victims ranged in age from 75-year-old Donald Ellens to 7-year-old Heaven Sutton.</div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> Chicago hasn’t seen murders at this pace since <span style="font-weight: bold">2003, when the city suffered 283 homicides by the end of June, </span><span style="font-weight: bold">and 601 over the year</span></div></div> </div></div>
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