74 Shot in Chicago over the Weekend
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Sounds to me like they need some gun restrictions passed. 
Anti-gun violence protesters shut down part of Chicago freeway
Last Updated Jul 7, 2018
Chicago politicians to Trump: Less talk, more action on gun violenceCHICAGO -- Thousands of anti-violence protesters marched along a Chicago interstate on Saturday, shutting down traffic in an effort to draw attention to the gun violence that's claimed hundreds of lives in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods and pressure public officials to do more to stop it.
Toward the front of the march, Rev. Michael Pfleger, who organized the protest, Chicago police Supt. Eddie Johnson and the Rev. Jesse Jackson linked arms.
Chicago police said the city had 252 homicides and 1,100 shootings in the first six months of this year, a decrease from the same period last year. But those crimes have been heavily concentrated in predominantly black, low-income neighborhoods.
Last year, young men on the city's South and West Sides told CBS News how easy it is to obtain illegal guns, and why many never leave their homes without one.
Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY
Published 11:56 a.m. ET March 1, 2017
There has been bipartisan passed legislation to address one aspect of this problemCHICAGO — After President Trump assailed violence in Chicago during his first major address to Congress, the city’s mayor offered a blunt response: More action and less talk on the issue from the president would be helpful.
Trump has hammered repeatedly at Chicago’s murder rate – the city tallied more murders than New York and Los Angeles combined last year – and during his Tuesday address he described the shootings and killings in the nation’s third largest city as something “not acceptable in our society.”
But once again, Trump didn’t offer any specifics on how he would go about fixing Chicago’s violence problem.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has met in recent weeks with White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner to talk about the violence. The mayor has called on Trump to push for more federal gun prosecutions in the city, increase the number of federal ATF agents in Chicago, and boost funding for mentoring, after-school and summer jobs programs for young people in some of Chicago’s most violence-plagued neighborhoods.
Interestingly a Google search shows that the NRA is against this. Hmm.
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The influence that money buys, especially from criminal organizations/mob/mafia, with politicians is a huge problem in our politics, would you not agree? With the advent of Citizens United and the U.S. Treasury allowing organizations to hide their donor lists, this has only gotten worse with all the dark money going into campaigns.
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