In Chicago, Anti-Violence Protesters Demonstrate, Law Abiding Gun Owners Blamed

Chicago has a problem: its streets are rife with violence, from fights to stabbings to shootings. This has been going on for years, but grew during the years Obama was in office. Casual gun play is the norm for some areas of Chicago. So, they’re going after the law abiding citizens who own firearms, rather than the criminals with illegal guns. And, to be fair, they aren’t happy with Mayor Rahm Emanuel, either

Chicago protestors threaten to ‘get arrested’ and ‘shut down streets’ in anti-gun violence demonstration

Chicago activists have warned a sprawling anti-violence protest may lead to multiple arrests and the shutdown of busy streets.

The demonstration was being organised in an effort to unseat Rahm Emanuel, Chicago’s Democratic mayor, and Eddie Johnson, the city’s police superintendent, according to organisers. Protestors planned to march from Lake Shore Drive to Wrigleyville in the middle of Thursday rush hour, and had not ruled out entering the Wrigley Field, where the Chicago Cubs were scheduled to play against the San Diego Padres.

In fact, they did do this, but, the game wasn’t really affected. They’re also threatening to disrupt O’Hare Airport if they do not get their way, which is partly that Emanuel resign. Interestingly, one thing they’re upset about is the focus on helping illegal aliens over the legal residents of Chicago.

Several major protests have occurred throughout Chicago in response to the city’s unending issues with gun violence. The region became an epicentre for gun violence after local courts rolled back the city’s strict gun ordinances and weapons guidelines from over a decade ago, which banned residents from keeping handguns in their homes and required that all firearms were registered and obtained a permit.

Chicago has suffered a spike in gun violence ever since, with over 50 people being shot during a single week in May this year — including law enforcement.

Got it? The spike in shootings is being blamed on law abiding citizens engaged in their Constitutional Right to own and posses a firearm, often to protect themselves for the violence in Chicago’s streets, which the city government often ignores. I wonder what else happened a decade ago?

If they really wanted to protest appropriately, they’d be streaming through their own streets where the violence occurs. They’d be teaching their kids to put the violence away and get a proper education, instead of being an “aspiring rapper,” a term that so often pops up in the papers when a person is murdered.

Anyhow, how’d this work out?

An unidentified male was killed and at least nine people have been wounded in city shootings since Friday morning, including a 66-year-old man carjacked in the West Side’s Fifth City neighborhood, Chicago police said.

Perhaps they should be blaming the people, not the firearms.