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What constitutes a mass shooting? By the numbers, a mass shooting is any shooting event in which four or more people are hit by bullets. Again, by the numbers, Chicago has had 212 such mass shootings in which at least four people have been struck by gunfire since 2016, and in those 212 shootings, a total of 1032 people have been shot, with 126 of them dying of their injuries.

None of that takes into account the number of shootings or deaths connected to them in which fewer than four people were hit. Those numbers skyrocket in Chicago with dozens being shot every week.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot has blood dripping from her hands.

She has cut funding to the Chicago police department, she has made the police in her city into the villains, and she has created a system of injustice so substandard that the numbers I am about to provide to you are staggering.

Regarding the 212 mass shootings since 2016, shootings that have left 126 people dead, only 21 people have been criminally charged. Only 21, but it gets worse. Much worse.

Of the scant 21 people criminally charged in 212mass shootings since 2016 in Chicago, shootings that resulted in 126 deaths, only 2 people have been convicted.

That leaves 19 criminally charged shooters, two of which were found not guilty, and one of which had his case dropped.

That’s it.

That’s the sum total of justice for the deaths of 126 people murdered in Chicago’s 212 mass shootings since 2016.

So far this year, there have been 39 mass shootings in Chicago that have left 214 people wounded and 24 people dead. How many charges have been brought by Chicago’s system of injustice this year in those shootings? One person was charged in one case and another person was charged as “in connection” to one of those shootings and so far, nobody has stood trial.

In Chicago, shooting cases become cold cases before the smoke from the barrels of the shooter’s guns disappears in the windy city’s breeze.

Lori Lightfoot has been the Mayor of Chicago since 2019, and on her watch there have been 117 mass shootings with 595 people wounded and 61 killed. Lightfoot’s numbers have been on a steady incline since she took office. In all of 2019, there were 30 such shootings in which four or more were wounded, 148 total wounded that year and 12 deaths. In 2020 the numbers were 48 mass shootings, 233 wounded and 25 deaths. This year, which is barely half over has so far seen 39, 214 and 24 respectively.

Those are all staggering numbers, but why are those numbers what they are?

Lori Lightfoot and just about any garden variety liberal Marxist you care to ask will tell you that the problem is guns. They know better, but they would have you believe that guns, by themselves, are just strolling out of people houses, walking or driving themselves through the streets of Chicago, or any other place, and opening fire spontaneously, of their own accord and under some unseen magical power on people who happen to be standing on street corners.

Lori Lightfoot and just about any garden variety liberal Marxist you care to ask will tell you that there just aren’t enough gun laws to curtail the shootings. They know better, but they would have you believe that the criminal element would be curtailed by more gun laws because criminals always respect the law.

We know better. Chicago is a virtual “gun free zone” as it is. It’s what liberal Marxists want for the entire nation. It’s their gold standard. There’s something else we know regarding “gun free zones,” and that’s that such places are target rich zones and what’s more, the criminal element is fully aware of that fact.

The criminal element in Chicago acts with impunity. Thanks to defunding the police, there are fewer and fewer cops on the streets to protect and serve, which means fewer and fewer cops to affect arrests or investigate violent crimes. That adds up to the criminal element in Chicago, or just about any other big blue city under the control of the liberal Marxist machine and its agenda to having less and less to fear, but it goes much deeper than just that in Chicago.

Earlier this year, in late February to be more exact, the Illinois legislature passed House Bill 3653 and Illinois’ liberal Marxist Governor, J.B. Pritzker signed it into law.

House Bill 3653 makes Illinois the first state to completely abolish cash bail.

Pritzker said, “This legislation marks a substantial step toward dismantling the systemic racism that plagues our communities, our state and our nation and brings us closer to true safety, true fairness and true justice.”

Oh really?

Catching a violent criminal, filling out a bit of paperwork and then turning those criminals loose on the streets an hour later is bringing Chicago “closer to true safety, true fairness and true justice?”

Liberal Marxist State Sen. Elgie R. Sims Jr., who sponsored the bill in Illinois said, “History will judge how we responded in this moment, which called for big, bold, transformative changes. This is not a moment for incrementalism, but one which calls for us to reimagine what public safety looks like in this great state.”

Allow me to remind Sims and Pritzker what that re-imagined public safety looks like which is bringing Chicago closer to true public safety, true fairness and true justice. So far this year, a year which is barely half over, Chicago has seen 39 mass shootings in Chicago that have left 214 people wounded and 24 people dead with just one person directly charged in just one of those 39 mass shootings and one other person charged in connection to one of the other 39 mass shootings.

True safety? Maybe for the criminals, but not for law-abiding citizens. True fairness? Maybe for the criminal element, but not for law-abiding citizens. True justice?

Clearly not for the 214 people who have been wounded and clearly not for the 24 whose lives bled out on one Chicago street corner after another.

People like Lightfoot, Sims, Pitzker and just about any garden variety liberal Marxist you care to mention will tell you that laws like House Bill 3653 in Illinois are necessary to overcome “systemic racism” in the justice system from the cops to the courts, but that’s a load of crap. The Chicago Police Superintendent is David Brown and he’s black, The Mayor of Chicago is Lori Lightfoot, and she’s black. The Chicago police force is 50% non-Hispanic white, 25% Hispanic of any race, 21% African American, 3% Asian/Pacific Islander and 1% Other. That seems about as diverse as a police department can be and clearly, decidedly not systemically racist.

I’m not here to blow smoke up anybody’s ass. There are some bad cops in Chicago, but they are vastly, overwhelmingly outnumbered by damned good cops but those good cops are fighting an uphill battle against the criminal element that has been emboldened by, and championed by Chicago’s leadership and the mainstream media.

By the end of June this year, more Chicago cops had retired that did so in all of 2018. More than 400 Chicago cops have retired this year, and the numbers of new recruits is way, way down. Why wouldn’t it be down? Lightfoot, elected liberal Marxists in Washington DC and the mainstream media has for years now been demonizing the police. Police in big deep blue cities have their hands tied behind their backs, and when they do make an arrest, the criminal is turned loose in an hour to return to the streets and commit more crimes.

Chicago is no exception and who wants to be a cop under such conditions?

Liberal Marxists don’t want you to know that, but there’s something else they really don’t want you to know. It’s the good cops who are turning in their papers and leaving the job in Chicago and other blue cities. Many of them aren’t leaving law enforcement, they’re just heading to places that are decidedly more appreciative of law enforcement officers. Guess what happens when the good cops, those who care about the safety and well-being of their cities and the law-abiding citizens who live there leave those cities? Who is left wearing the badge in those cities? The bad cops, or those who really don’t care all that much. That’s who is left and most of them are just riding out their time.

Most, but not all. There are a few who want to make a positive difference, who do care and want to protect and serve as good, solid cops.

29-year-old Ella French was one of those good Chicago cops. So too was her partner French and her partner were ambushed, she was murdered outright and her partner shot in the head on August 7^th.

Ironically, Officer French and her partner were assigned to the Public Safety Division of the Chicago Police Department so again I ask…safety for who? Certainly not for the public and obviously not for the police.

So far this year, a year that is just barely half over, 38 Chicago police officers have been shot at, 11 were hit and French was the first to be killed. That’s a 500% increase of officers shot at or shot in Chicago compared with 2019.

Liberal Marxists say more gun laws could have prevented Officer French’s murder, but that’s a lie. The gun used in that ambush murder was purchased legally in Indiana and then given to a criminal, a man who because of already existing gun laws was prevented from owning a gun who was in the car from which French and her partner were shot. Under liberal Marxist law, only the bad guys seem to be allowed to have guns.

You name the big, blue city and there are two common themes. Crime, especially violent crime is soaring and the number of police officers on the streets is dramatically dropping. As long as cities like Chicago continue to demonize their cops, and defund their departments, more and more cops are going to walk off the job and crime rates will continue to skyrocket as a result. The two are completely tied to one another.

Elected liberal Marxists know what I’m saying is true, and they don’t care because the outcome is exactly what they want. They want the situation in their cities to get so bad that the people start begging for the government to save them from the problem government created but it doesn’t have to be that way.

Here’s the dirty secret elected liberal Marxists hope the people never catch onto…

It’s the end of watch for Officer Ella French, and it’s getting close to the end of the line for Chicago. If the people want criminals off their streets, they need to vote the criminals out of City Hall because until then, nobody is going to be safe and the thin blue line will just get thinner.

You can take that to the bank.

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