Chicago has reached another bloody milestone. There have been 701 homicides recorded so far this year in the city, per the Chicago Police Department. There were 480 homicides in 2015.
It's the first time the city has recorded more than 700 homicides in nearly two decades. Chicago had 704 homicides in 1998 and is on a pace to easily break that mark. Guns are driving the violence, with more than 90% of the 2016 homicides gun-related. There have been 3,315 shooting incidents this year, police said. Opolice have recovered 8,000 guns, a 20% jump over last year, and gun arrests are up 8% over last year. Most of the killings occur in five police districts on the south and west sides of the city. The bulk of the violence has been concentrated in neighborhoods on the South and West sides that have been plagued by decades of poverty, entrenched segregation, gangs, rampant narcotics sales and other social ills.
Two of the city's historically most violent police districts — Harrison and Englewood — account for almost one-fourth of Chicago's homicides and shooting incidents.
Most of the great civilizations throughout history were destroyed from within, not by conquest. If, as you foretell, our entire moral foundation is a risk, then we are truly headed for destruction. Early Greece, the Roman Empire, and so on, all eventually destroyed by their own weight. Drugs are the scourge of society. Whether they are legal or not, the effects of addiction creates a huge cost on society, in both financial and moral terms. No man-made law can take the place of a strong moral foundation. Our legal system is based on the concept of "voluntary compliance." In other words, it is up to each of us to obey the law. No law can, by itself, prevent its intended action from occurring. Only our compliance, our voluntary compliance, prevents the designated illegal activity. If we do not comply, then there is a penalty to be paid, up to and including death. But if a person does not fear the penalty or the ramifications of violating the law, then it provides no safety. Over the past 20 years we have seen every state pass some form of laws providing for qualified citizens to carry a firearms. There are almost 20 million concealed carry permit holders in the US today, and that doesn't include states with open carry statutes, where permits may not be required at all. Why? Because they do not feel safe in society.
If we see further erosion in morality, no one will be safe.
Where are the Black Lives Matters activists? Where is Jesse Jackson? Al Sharpton? They should be outraged! The Black Lives Matters movement has created anarchy in Black neighborhoods. No cop with a brain goes there without a team of reinforcements. The cops are just letting the culture do its thing. When the people want law and order they will have to beg the cops to start shooting the gang killers. Probably won't happen as clearly the violence is supported by the people who continue to elect the same corrupt Democrats who created the culture in their own image. I suspect that next year will have another 50% increase in murders. Only the Black Culture can stop it and they don't seem to care. How is that liberal utopia working out for you. The city is broke, taxes are out of control, crime is out of control, corruption is out of control. Bravo Democrats...another fine job. Most blacks are just normal people not looking to use race to divide us. The problem is they have leadership that uses this to get white America to,feel,guilty so they can extract money for themselves. The BLM doesn't really represent blacks,but democrats don't have the courage to stand up to race baiter because it may cost them part of the black vote and they can't win if they only get 80%'of it.
Contrary to liberal excuses, Chicago's crisis is not caused by a lack of jobs, lack of education, or lack of opportunity. It is caused by a lack of morality. The vast majority of these shootings and killings (90%,) are gang related and predominately caused by African-Americans and Latinos. It is a culture of violence. They place no value in human life. It is a lack of morality.
There are many low income, predominately white communities in this country with the same issues related to jobs, incomes, education, and opportunity, but do not have daily shootings and murders. Why? Because despite their socio-economic conditions, these people still have a moral foundation that believes killing people is both legally and morally wrong. They have been brought up with guns in their homes, which in rural America is very common, yet they do not commit these daily shootings and killings. Rural America has far more guns in it than urban America, as hunting and target shooting are favorite pastimes. Also, when a police/sheriff response is at least 15 minutes away, you learn to provide for your own security. Despite being poor, lacking a college education, with high unemployment rates, they are law abiding people that do not turn to killing to solve their problems. For it is their moral code, not laws, that keeps them from killing.
The solution to this crisis is not more gun laws, it is not more cops on the street, and isn't finding more jobs. It is addressing this culture of violence that is predominate in these minority communities. Teach children that killing is morally wrong. Instill in them that all human life is priceless. Teach them to accept responsibility for their actions and help the develop that moral foundation.
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