2 Dead, 24 Wounded in Chicago - in 24 Hours

[Kythas]

Saturday night through Sunday morning, 2 are dead and 24 wounded in Chicago. This brings the total dead to 5 over the weekend (since Friday night).

15 of the victims are gang members.

These are higher casualty figures than Afghanistan.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... 7041.story

[snatchel]

Sounds like a nice place to visit...

I have been to Chicago. I was there for boot camp. I will never return.

[RPBrown]

This can't be. Everyone knows that they don't allow guns in Chicago

Sad that so many lives are being lost because the politicians bury their head in the sand.

[bizarrenormality]

15 of the victims are gang members.

It's a start.

[Oldgringo]

That's just the ones they've found so far.

[seamusTX]

Houston, Oct. 11, two women shot and pushed from a moving vehicle on I-10, one dead.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas ... 950875.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Houston, Oct. 14, man fatally stabbed in an argument over football:

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs ... y_c_50.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Houston, Oct. 13, man fatally shot in his own driveway, apparent robbery:

http://www.click2houston.com/news/Man-f ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

That took me 5 minutes.

There are so many thug-on-thug non-fatal assaults in Houston that they aren't news.

- Jim

[Oldgringo]

Chicago is listed as the third largest city in the the country while Houston is number 4. Populations and gun laws aside, Houston has a much longer "outdoor season" than ChiTown. With a little extra effort, the Bayou City should be able to overtake and surpass Chicago in murder by thug, and others, by year's end.

Go Houston!

[seamusTX]

It's true that thugs slow down in bad weather. They don't hang around parks or street corners as much. However, plenty of thug activity goes on in bars, "clubs," apartment buildings, and other weather-neutral venues.

Also Chicago thugs are hardened to weather that probably would make a Houston thug catatonic.

- Jim

[Oldgringo]

It's true that thugs slow down in bad weather. They don't hang around parks or street corners as much. However, plenty of thug activity goes on in bars, "clubs," apartment buildings, and other weather-neutral venues.

Also Chicago thugs are hardened to weather that probably would make a Houston thug catatonic.

- Jim

You're probably right! I hate being catatonic. My old buddy, Silas Marner, didn't like it much either.

[Jumping Frog]

Great. Just what I want to read tonight as I prepare to catch the 0520 flight to ORD tomorrow AM.

Wish I was bringing at least one of my guns ... but I'm not.