How do the citizens of Democrat cities celebrate the 4th? Well the old-fashioned way, they shoot each other.
As usual ChiTown led the way with over a hundred shootings and at least 18 dead. Two police officers were shot which brings the total number of cops shot so far this year to 33. Chicago hasn't had a Republican mayor since the 1930s.
Meanwhile in the Democrat paradise that is Oakland, the police chief said, "This is the most violent 4th we have ever had...nonstop chaos."
Across the bay in San Francisco, the Nieman-Marcus store was the victim of a gang robbery with at least nine of their most upstanding citizens involved.
It's so bad in San Fran that Walgreens has closed 17 stores due to shoplifting.
Even here in our little town we had the 100th victim of a gunshot wound Monday. Last year at this time we had 61.
And the, "Concerned" Clergy is worried about Sheriff Hammond.
Happy 246th birthday, America.
Douglas Jones
Ooltewah
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First I want to say to Doug, no one with a quarter of a brain expected there would be no serious blowback to talks of taking away funding from police. Not even if one percent was set aside to help rebuild communities policies and actions helped to decimate.
But let's go back to that 1930s Chicago under Republican leadership you so want to glorify. Is that the same 1930s Chicago "Taxi Wars?" Where rival taxi gangs threw dynamite into the taxi cabs of fellow cabdrivers in order to dominate the taxi cab business?
And what about organized crime and mafia. Say of the Al Capone kind?
Then there was the reporter who was murdered when he blackmailed bootleggers and threatened to write an expose' about whorehouse overseers and gamblers?
November 1930, the wife of the city's mayor was assassinated in a jewelry robbery by gangsters.
1933 Chicago's "reform" mayor sent two cops out to put a hit on a gangster in order to replace him with another gangster more to his liking. On up through 1939 when a Chicago attorney was gunned down while driving when unknowns drove up alongside his car spreading it with bullets.
For all of the above see: "Timeline of Organized Crime in Chicago."--Wikipedia
Today's Chicago is actually tame in comparison to that 1930s Chicago you're trying to convince others was so pristine and clean under Republican leadership.
You'll learn, Douglas, should the day come you're ever told "Arrangements can be made to have your house broken into just to prove to you the person you call first will be the police," there's something insidious, darker and wicked going on than we'll ever be privy to. If someone outside criminals hold so much control and power over them, then isn't it just as well and strong probability someone(s) is also controlling the crime?
Brenda Washington
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First I want to say to Doug, no one with a quarter of a brain expected there would be no serious blowback to talks of taking away funding from police.
I think Brenda hit the nail on the head with that statement. So I guess the next question is why do people in these violent cities keep putting these brain dead politicians in office? All they are doing is putting innocent lives at risk with all the newly created crossfire and the increased crime from these budget cuts.
The social experiment of “defunding the police” has failed miserably and the hundreds if not thousands of innocent lives that have and will be lost as a result are at the hands of these politicians and their brain dead directives.
It’s absolutely amazing we have reverted back to the Wild Wild West of criminals running wild in the streets in these liberal cities with little to no consequences for their actions while police have just enough manpower remaining to clean up the carnage left behind.
As the saying goes, “Stupid is as stupid does” and they are now reaping what they sowed. The truly unfortunate part is it is at the hands of innocent victims and business owners who have no recourse except to wait until the next election or close their doors.
Chris Morgan
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How about this? A solution for opiate addiction was to flood the streets with …Opiates! We know how that plays out in the Darwinist society we have. Now the solution to gun violence is: flood the streets with guns. After all that is what the Tennessee Legislature did with the approval of the Governor and disapproval of city police chiefs and Tennessee Sheriffs.
Open carry 21 and older is soon the rule of law in Tennessee. In Chicago where do you get your guns? Answer: Indiana, gun laws there are lax. In New York, where do you get your guns? Answer, some Southern states where gun laws are lax. Amazingly crime reports in today’s Chattanoogan have no missives about guns taken from glove boxes or front seats.
So the saying goes “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.” That’s what our police departments have to deal with every time they make a traffic stop or encounter on the streets. They are rapidly having to make every encounter, be it a citizen who called them in distress or in danger versus the one they are in pursuit of, every encounter as potential of deadly threat until proven otherwise. So please, while we put out armchair definitions of urban issues, why don’t we address the issues of the whole society that ail us. We are supposed to be members of the human race, aren’t we?
It is ironic the Legislative leader of Open Carry in Tennessee is from a small town, yet he gets to determine how urban cops now have to deal with every stop they make, day or night.
Prentice Hicks
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Guns and Dems is not a new rock group though it might be a good name for a musical group rather then the grim reality of guns in this country.
Oh, the Republicans suggest that the big cities of NYC and Chicago have Democratic governors that the reason for all the gun activity is because Mayor DeBlasio is a Democrat or Chicago's Mayor Lightfoot.
Let me share the real truth and not Republican finger pointing. About 50 million people live in cities in the U.S. Many of those cities have mixed neighborhoods with lots of ethnic peoples. Maybe we could blame gun crime on ethnic gangs or such. Or maybe we could look a little deeper at not the politics of a mayor but the prevalence of guns..
Oh, it is the members of the Republican Party that put up such a squabble when legislation is suggested to address the guns on the street. That party wants nothing of it and frankly it is almost easy enough to buy, steal or open up a box of Wheaties and find a gun. I am not suggesting that Wheaties contains a gun but my point is it is easy to get a gun. Gun in the hands of someone that wants to harm is frighteningly easy..
Just to name a few Democratic mayors in the following cities: LA., Atlanta, Houston, San Diego, San Jose, Columbus, Austin and etc. Cities in Calif. have laws that make it very difficult to get a gun.. None of the other cities mentioned here and about 30 other large cities have such restrictive laws as does California. The solution to guns killing people is get the guns out of the hands of people that should not have a gun. Where is the Republican Party when that question comes up?
Political parties enjoy blaming the other party and rightfully acknowledged but when the facts are presented the blame takes on a different perspective. The state of Tennessee wants and has passed an open carry; open to anyone, man, woman or child to own and carry a weapon. Wonder if that Wayne LaPierre speech where he often said.. a good guy with a gun is better then a bad guy with a gun... Where are we going with guns or it is possible to open up a box of Wheaties and find a gun?
Robert Brooks