Gun shots on 14th street tonight!

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Common sense dictates it stands for “Assault Rifle”.

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Where else do you think the term came from, dummy?


But I will admit I have no idea what the number 15 means, I’m guessing they have to do with the power level of the bullets, or like how many fit inside the clipazine. Honestly, I don’t really care what it stands for I’m not a killer.

Haha, you can't be serious. AR does not stand for assault rifle. Yet I'm sure you have very strong opinions on what should happen to firearms.

So what? I don’t CARE what it stands for, if anything. I don’t know a damn thing about guns and don’t want to. The only thing I know is that only the military should have them. If you want to play with guns, join the army. Otherwise no one needs them. Fight with your fists. Or use a knife or whatever.

[Anonymous]

Contee on FIRE in his presser: “I guarantee you he will be no stranger to us.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


Common sense dictates it stands for “Assault Rifle”.

A R

Assault

Rifle

Where else do you think the term came from, dummy?


But I will admit I have no idea what the number 15 means, I’m guessing they have to do with the power level of the bullets, or like how many fit inside the clipazine. Honestly, I don’t really care what it stands for I’m not a killer.

Haha, you can't be serious. AR does not stand for assault rifle. Yet I'm sure you have very strong opinions on what should happen to firearms.

So what? I don’t CARE what it stands for, if anything. I don’t know a damn thing about guns and don’t want to. The only thing I know is that only the military should have them. If you want to play with guns, join the army. Otherwise no one needs them. Fight with your fists. Or use a knife or whatever.

So, the police should not have them? They need to fight hand-to-hand with criminals carrying guns?
You really are not living in reality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Contee on FIRE in his presser: “I guarantee you he will be no stranger to us.”

Of course not. Those who fired the shots will have lengthy rap sheets. That is a given.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine if our streets and communities weren't flooded with guns. There is blood on the hands of every republican in this country.

The Republicans have to move on the gun debate. But at the end of the day, the most important factor by far in explaining disparities in all manner of life outcomes (poverty, unemployment, crime, education) is whether you were born out-of-wedlock. And we all know the statistics are not pretty. Until the Democrats are willing to have a conversation about this, the gunfire will continue.

Democrats are already pro-choice and in favor of policies that increase education, jobs, and alleviate poverty. So, what's your point? That they should be in favor of forced-marriage and polygamy?

I'm sincerely not following exactly what you think Democrats haven't done on these issues.

It’s more that on the road to equity, which is paved with good intentions, democrats blame the guns first. They are which a huge part of the problem, but democrats also casually gloss over the 80% out of birth rate and single parent households, and rise in teens causing crimes, and basically ignore the lack of accountability from the actual perpetrator of a crime. Democracts are basically 100% equity focused and if that means that wealthy tax payers have to put with rising crime to achieve better disparate impact statistics regarding crime, than so be it. It’s this “I know crime is rising and your city might lose its tax base to tax payers fleeing to the safe suburbs, but you can’t make an equity omelette without cracking some eggs. And those eggs are everyone else.”

I hope democrats lose the mid terms because of this, and I hate this word, but this woke attitude toward crime. I also hope Charles Allen and the other Uber liberal idiots on the city council lose on the local level, but I won’t hold my breath. There are too many self flagellating city dwellers who will allow themselves to be crime victims before they actually get serious about policing. They won’t complain. I’ve lived here my whole life, so I know this town is way liberal.

How about we start with gun control and go from there John Wayne

Don't we have gun control in Chicago? How's that working for ya?

The problem is intractable because gun control will never happen to the point where we could actually remove enough guns (or even the types of guns like handguns and ar-15s) off the streets for any meaningful statistical drop in gun violence.

Additionally, no sane politician will point directly to any community that has outsized levels of criminality in proportion to its size and try to implement actual policing.

So there you go folks. You kind of just wait for gentrification to help lower crime and then along the way people complain or push for subsidized housing and all that but the hope is that developers win and crime goes down with their work before rich people flee.

Could you please explain how a AR-15 materially differs from other rifles, say the M1 Garand?

If that’s too hard, suppose you clarify what the “AR” stands for?

Inanimate objects don’t commit crimes. Criminals who misuse objects commit crimes. They use cars too. Should we ban all old model Honda’s because they’re easy to steal?

Listen gun-humper, I don’t know anything about them, I just know we need to take them away. All of them. I don’t know or care about the minutiae of which model or whatever, they all need to go. From your cold, dead hands if necessary.

Name calling, huh? Wow! That’s powerful!

Thank you for acknowledging that your overdetermined views on firearms are completely unreasoned, bereft of factual support and the product of an irrational fear that borders on, and may even rise to the level of, pathology.

Thank you also for acknowledging your absolute, invincible ignorance regarding how firearms work, the distinctions between them or anything else about them. For your information. The “AR” in “AR-15” stands for Armilite, the company that originally developed that and other rifles. AR-15 rifles are not “assault weapons.” They are incapable of automatic fire, which is an essential element of anything that might properly be called an assault rifle.

As for “cold dead hands,” cf., the response of Leonidas I to the demand by Xerxes I that the Spartans surrender their weapons.

You’d be outraged if medical or educational or monetary or any other policy was made on the basis of ignorance and irrational fear, but you feel entitled to control others’ right to the efficacious means of self-defense and recreation on precisely those grounds. Privileged much?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine if our streets and communities weren't flooded with guns. There is blood on the hands of every republican in this country.

The Republicans have to move on the gun debate. But at the end of the day, the most important factor by far in explaining disparities in all manner of life outcomes (poverty, unemployment, crime, education) is whether you were born out-of-wedlock. And we all know the statistics are not pretty. Until the Democrats are willing to have a conversation about this, the gunfire will continue.

Democrats are already pro-choice and in favor of policies that increase education, jobs, and alleviate poverty. So, what's your point? That they should be in favor of forced-marriage and polygamy?

I'm sincerely not following exactly what you think Democrats haven't done on these issues.

It’s more that on the road to equity, which is paved with good intentions, democrats blame the guns first. They are which a huge part of the problem, but democrats also casually gloss over the 80% out of birth rate and single parent households, and rise in teens causing crimes, and basically ignore the lack of accountability from the actual perpetrator of a crime. Democracts are basically 100% equity focused and if that means that wealthy tax payers have to put with rising crime to achieve better disparate impact statistics regarding crime, than so be it. It’s this “I know crime is rising and your city might lose its tax base to tax payers fleeing to the safe suburbs, but you can’t make an equity omelette without cracking some eggs. And those eggs are everyone else.”

I hope democrats lose the mid terms because of this, and I hate this word, but this woke attitude toward crime. I also hope Charles Allen and the other Uber liberal idiots on the city council lose on the local level, but I won’t hold my breath. There are too many self flagellating city dwellers who will allow themselves to be crime victims before they actually get serious about policing. They won’t complain. I’ve lived here my whole life, so I know this town is way liberal.

How about we start with gun control and go from there John Wayne

Don't we have gun control in Chicago? How's that working for ya?

The problem is intractable because gun control will never happen to the point where we could actually remove enough guns (or even the types of guns like handguns and ar-15s) off the streets for any meaningful statistical drop in gun violence.

Additionally, no sane politician will point directly to any community that has outsized levels of criminality in proportion to its size and try to implement actual policing.

So there you go folks. You kind of just wait for gentrification to help lower crime and then along the way people complain or push for subsidized housing and all that but the hope is that developers win and crime goes down with their work before rich people flee.

Could you please explain how a AR-15 materially differs from other rifles, say the M1 Garand?

If that’s too hard, suppose you clarify what the “AR” stands for?

Inanimate objects don’t commit crimes. Criminals who misuse objects commit crimes. They use cars too. Should we ban all old model Honda’s because they’re easy to steal?

Listen gun-humper, I don’t know anything about them, I just know we need to take them away. All of them. I don’t know or care about the minutiae of which model or whatever, they all need to go. From your cold, dead hands if necessary.

This argument is so tired because it is politically untenable. I assume you are a Democrat. Do you think your party is going to just say “please” to get these guns off the street? To do what you require would mean more police and locking a lot of disadvantaged people up. Both of these actions are not going to have any traction in the Democratic Party. You just don’t go seizing illegal and even legal guns by saying please. You do so with way more cops and way more people going to prison.

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Anonymous wrote:Considering leaving the city and this makes me very sad after 20 years. I hate the burbs here so I have no idea where to go because I can’t afford upper nw. I have children now and these daytime shootings blocks from us are terrifying.

If that contributes to white flight, that’s also racist.

I can only assume you are being facetious. I’m not putting my kids’ health and safety for fear somebody call me racist.

That statement alone proves your ally-ship is skin deep, and only as long as it suits your needs.

You look like a friend on the outside, it you’re racist to your core. The fact that it wouldn’t trouble you to be called one proves so.

You are an awesome Republican troll. Keep it up. Hilarious stuff.

[Anonymous]

I will donate money to and campaign for a candidate in the mold of Eric Adams to run against Charles Allen, Brianne Nadeau, and/or Trayon White. Our city needs sensible leadership right now.

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Anonymous wrote:Considering leaving the city and this makes me very sad after 20 years. I hate the burbs here so I have no idea where to go because I can’t afford upper nw. I have children now and these daytime shootings blocks from us are terrifying.

If that contributes to white flight, that’s also racist.

I can only assume you are being facetious. I’m not putting my kids’ health and safety for fear somebody call me racist.

That statement alone proves your ally-ship is skin deep, and only as long as it suits your needs.

You look like a friend on the outside, it you’re racist to your core. The fact that it wouldn’t trouble you to be called one proves so.

You are an awesome Republican troll. Keep it up. Hilarious stuff.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Considering leaving the city and this makes me very sad after 20 years. I hate the burbs here so I have no idea where to go because I can’t afford upper nw. I have children now and these daytime shootings blocks from us are terrifying.

If that contributes to white flight, that’s also racist.

I can only assume you are being facetious. I’m not putting my kids’ health and safety for fear somebody call me racist.

That statement alone proves your ally-ship is skin deep, and only as long as it suits your needs.

You look like a friend on the outside, it you’re racist to your core. The fact that it wouldn’t trouble you to be called one proves so.

You are an awesome Republican troll. Keep it up. Hilarious stuff.

+1

White privilege on full display. Cry some more tears of fragility.

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Anonymous wrote:I will donate money to and campaign for a candidate in the mold of Eric Adams to run against Charles Allen, Brianne Nadeau, and/or Trayon White. Our city needs sensible leadership right now.

+1 to this. The future of this city is at stake if we don't turn the tide and return to sensible policies that entail consequences for criminals and not setting up more concentrated poverty areas that enable this. They also just decided to raise taxes to give more money to the homeless but not a cent more to help with policing despite a depleted and demoralized force.

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Anonymous wrote:Considering leaving the city and this makes me very sad after 20 years. I hate the burbs here so I have no idea where to go because I can’t afford upper nw. I have children now and these daytime shootings blocks from us are terrifying.

If that contributes to white flight, that’s also racist.

I can only assume you are being facetious. I’m not putting my kids’ health and safety for fear somebody call me racist.

That statement alone proves your ally-ship is skin deep, and only as long as it suits your needs.

You look like a friend on the outside, it you’re racist to your core. The fact that it wouldn’t trouble you to be called one proves so.

You are an awesome Republican troll. Keep it up. Hilarious stuff.

+1

White privilege on full display. Cry some more tears of fragility.

You never miss!

[Anonymous]

What is blatantly obvious is that this is a multi-faceted problem that will take hard work from nearly every segment of society to change. But that's not how America rolls these days. We want quick fixes and sound bites. We don't want to take a close look at our own communities to figure out whether they are contributing to the problems, but we are quick to point out everything else that other communities are or aren't doing. We sacrifice the good solutions for the perfect ones because some group will be up in arms about some aspect of the solution no matter what it is, so nothing gets done. And whatever the solution is, we certainly don't want it to inconvenience us in any way.

[Anonymous]

White privileged going all in on broken windows policing again?

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Anonymous wrote:White privileged going all in on broken windows policing again?

This is what happens when the pendulum swings too far left.