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I hope you have success. The Stranger ignores my suggestions, or maybe they're just taking a shit on me. American Mayhem Today has a good reality show ring to it. Good Luck!
why does the stranger take $ from these kinds of ads? i dont get it.
"...gang-against-gang shootings, have not been spread evenly across this city. Instead, they have mostly taken place in neighborhoods west and south of Chicago’s gleaming downtown towers.
"There have been 516 murders this year in Chicago, most with guns, and most in a handful of neighborhoods of the city. (2012) There are approximately 11,000 firearms homicides in the US each year."
July 2011, there were 2,707,120 people living in the city of Chicago, estimated. Population estimate for the US is 311,587,816.
19.06085 shootings / 10000 Chicagoans
3.53005 shootings / 10000 Americans nationally
One recent comparison dramatized the danger in Chicago by pointing out that more people have been killed in Chicago this year than the number of American troops killed since the beginning of the war in Afghanistan.
How about St. Louse?
July 2011 pop 318,069
2012 113 homicides
35.5269 homicides per 10000 St Louisans
I bet jobs and education would reduce these homicide statistics. So sad that America's Heartland Cities don't give a shit.
Do bad things sometimes happen involving guns? Of course, any any gun owner would be stupid to deny that. It's a bit country with a lot of people, a lot of guns, and a pretty good number of people who shouldn't have guns for reasons of criminality or stupidity.
We can reduce the negative effects through focusing on the root causes of violence and emphasizing safety to reduce accidents. I would actually be in favor of a mandatory gun safety class/test if it were properly implemented.
Or would could use the Slog model of abstinence only/just say no.
Tally as of this morning? 1109 deaths. Sorry, it's now up to 1111. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_p…
The courts probably keep letting him out until he steals enough to pay off his fines.
i'd be OK with it if there was a category in the daily mayhem recount that noted justified self-defense.
Otherwise, you would easily count the number of murders that occurred on MLK day and come to a similar conclusion that the holiday or its followers support or advocate violence (which clearly they dont).