So the national media is having every Democrat they could possibly get on their airwaves this weekend to trash legal gun owners after the seven people were killed in Odessa yesterday. Turns out, that wasn’t even the most deadly place this Labor Day Weekend. In Chicago, at least eight people were killed and 26 were shot, and yet, not a peep about it from Democrats or the national media. Gee, I wonder why.
Chicago is supposed to have some of the strongest anti-gun laws in the country while Democrats and the media mock Texas for their gun laws.
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26 shot, 8 fatally, in Labor Day weekend violence https://t.co/EYJ6BqK6Pm pic.twitter.com/Cua9r0FVpd
— ABC 7 Chicago (@ABC7Chicago) September 1, 2019
More than two dozen people have been shot in Chicago so far this Labor Day weekend, according to Chicago police. This comes as police announce the lowest number of murders and shootings in the city since August 2011.
Police shared statistics on crime reduction for the month of August at 2:40 a.m. They say overall violent crime is down 15 percent compared to the same month one year ago. Murders fell by 23 percent compared to August 2018, police said, and shootings were reduced by 19 percent.
A teenage boy was shot to death in the city’s Austin neighborhood hours after September began, police said. The 15-year-old was found on the sidewalk around 2:20 a.m. with gunshot wounds to the back and legs.
A 27-year-old man was killed 25 minutes later in a shooting in the West Woodlawn neighborhood. The 27-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman were at a party in a residence in the 6100 block of South St. Lawrence Avenue when someone opened fire, police said.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman was shot in the foot and took herself to St. Bernard Hospital. She was listed in good condition. Police do not believe the woman was the intended target.