1 Dead, 10 Wounded In Weekend Shootings Across Chicago « CBS Chicago

1 Dead, 10 Wounded In Weekend Shootings Across Chicago « CBS Chicago


I'm coming under the impression our elected officials honestly don't care about this menace simply because most of the victims are "documented gang members", and the occasional innocent civilian gets caught in the crossfire. That's an old philosophy of "let them kill each other off", that simply doesn't wash.

Gangs have been around since humans left their mud-huts and began building cities. They have never been eradicated, just subdued. These days, we are not even making feeble attempts at subduing them. Why you ask? It's simple. They are not organized. Once they do that, it sends fear down the spine of White America. Then, and only then will you see a call for action.

When the Black Panthers got organized it was for a good reason. They go fed up with being brutalized by police gangs, and decided protecting and serving their community was the only option. Once that happened, White America panicked, and gun reform was the rage. Even during slavery, the biggest fear of White America was a person of color holding a gun. They feared that, because in the back of their minds, with all the brutalization they have inflicted on "others", those guns would be turned on them.

But a campaign of disorganization was undertook for years. The gangs have now turned the weapons upon themselves, and White America sticks to that old philosophy of "let them kill each other off". It just doesn't wash folks. Never has, never will.