Chicago shootings pass 1,000 mark: 'I just need to see it's my child,' one mom cries

1000 dead in Chicago since the first of the year, what intelligent discussion is possible?

 

time to end the war on drugs, stop funding gangs

 

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Metaphysically and logically, you make a good point.....What's to say?. Bravo.
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Buy a gun, practice, and be diligent.

 

Good lord 1000 in one city in 1 year? Yikes....

 

A quality product is whatever gets you higher than the last thing that got you high these days.

 

Besides being uninformed and a liberal apologist, the large type just further minimizes whatever you might care to say.

 

Did ending prohibition end the Mafia back in the 1930's?

 

Black market or not, legalizing drugs will solve alot of problems, that the durg war never did and never will, in fact, it only created more problems. If you think the cartels won't take a big hit you'd be wrong. The legalization of weed alone in the Washigton and Colorado states is already costing the cartels millions.

Sure there will always be a black market, but the meager profits that will be generated by it won't justify the mass killings and drug wars that we have happening today. Maybe some cartels will even turn into legitimate business but i doubt it, the legalized drugs would be produced mostly in the US, creating jobs and businesses, we're mostly talking about weed here anyways, and one day maybe cocaine.

Drugs such as heroine though, i think it should be offered, freely to drug users, like they did in Switzerland. There are heroine addicts leaving "normal" lives, as normal as a drug addicte can live, they just take their free dosage of 100% pure heroine twice a day and then they're off to work, do their hobbies or be with their families, etc.

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They moved to the drug business. And lately in the 90's to wall street.

 

Your friends on the left keep doing that as well, that was my point.

Partisanship erodes reason.
Labels don't define they divide.
Once a group is divided it can be controlled.
Welcome to the two party scam.

 

Worse 1000 in closer to 6 months!

 

That's a point. But I don't know how germane it happens to be. Have there actually been any studies yet on those cities and states that decided to -- say -- legalize Marijuana? The point being that the only cities in which killings in such numbers exists are cities that have been operated by the Dem Party for ages. This is an issue that no leftist seems willing to tackle.

They always try and divert by flinging out something along the lines of "But if only we ended the drug war!" But what about major cities controlled by the GOP for forever? The drug war is still generally in effect and yet massive scale and very much routine killings do not occur in such localities.

 

One thousand killing! This is the way it is in a democrat run city. The only good news here at all is that democrats are losing voters.

 

republicans do not care about the poor, remember katrina, so of course dems would be the only ones their to help them

 

how many stills you see nowadays run by gangs, yes those gangs disbanded and when new prohibition came along the gangs flourished again

gangs only attract so many new members because of all the cash that comes in from the sale of drugs.. bling bling

the criminals already created wont disappear, the new recruits will diminish drastically

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The Mafia did not "disband" after Prohibition ended where do you get this nonsense?

 

they are no where near as powerful as they were during prohibition, where you been

the lack of new recruits is how it ends... getting rid of all the career criminals already created by the war on drugs takes years as they have to die off

do you really think all the money going to the gangs via the drug war has no impact on the size of gangs?

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Your lack of knowledge on the matter has nothing to do with me. Your last sentence is just another in a long list of strawmen from you.

 

Perhaps they are eating rough meat or something is in the drinking water to make them so aggressive between themselves.

Cooking better the food and better filtration for water might help to diminish such a violence.

I can't give a different opinion because if I say black people here, black people there, I might be taken as a racist...

 

seriously, you do not agree with the below?

"do you really think all the money going to the gangs via the drug war has no impact on the size of gangs?"

 

So the 1000 killed in Chicago were poor kids that the Dems care about? And the ones in Detroit and Baltimore because Dems care soooo much?

 

we care about anyone being killed by criminals... don't you?

 

I see that.

 

Sure you do. You speak as if you are the Democrats, why isn't anything at all being done BY THE DEMOCRATS who run these cities? Why aren't the gangs rounded up under RICO?

 

Bush had a poor(delayed) response to Katrina, but I think in hindsight with my political knowledge that that was a low blow against the Bush Administration when other things(the Iraq war namely) was going bad. Democrats wanted to kick the puppy while he was down, and they did so.

Bush-level hysteria on the Left was far greater than any hysteria on the right for Obama. Not a day went by without an attack on the Bush Administration, for reasons both justiifable and unjustifiable. Was Bush a bad president? Of course. Did he increase the power of the executive branch? Yep. But what did Nancy Pelosi say? "Impeachment's off the table.". So when it comes to the rule of law, Congress will not enforce it.

This is why Congress has a 93% disapproval rating. While that disapproval rating is along partisan lines, if we took out the partisanship, it'd be the one place we'd all collectively agree if Congress were the topic: It STINKS to high heaven.