Not A Happy
Thanksgiving: 70 Shot in Gun-Controlled Chicago Over Holiday Weekend
by AWR Hawkins 29 Nov 2016
Violence raged in gun-controlled
Chicago over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, with 62 people shot and
wounded, another eight people shot and killed.
This is an exponential jump over the level of violence
seen during the Thanksgiving holidays of the previous two years. In 2014 there
were five deaths, with 14 others shot and wounded and in 2015 there were eight
deaths with 20 others wounded.
But in 2016 there were eight killed with 62 others shot
and wounded.
According to the Chicago Tribune, the Thanksgiving holiday
weekend violence brings Chicago to nearly 4,000 shooting victims for the year.
That figure includes fatal and non-fatal shootings.
The number of fatal shootings alone is 710; a figure which
is even more startling when you consider that there were 492 homicides for the
whole of 2015. There have 710 homicides through the first 11 months of 2016.
Chicago has long been a gun control experiment gone awry. The city enacted a ban on
handgun ownership in 1982 and the Tribune
reported that the next 10 years witnessed “murders [jump] by 41 percent,
compared with an 18 percent rise in the entire United States.” And this jump
made sense. After all, when bans are enacted only the criminals remain armed.
The ban was overturned in 2010 via the Supreme Court
ruling in McDonald v Chicago, but city leaders have worked diligently to
preserve the vestiges of the ban at every turn in road. And municipal and
county limits on the number of gun stores allowed in Chicago, together with
rules on the locations of those stores and a ridiculous amount of regulation on
acquiring and carrying guns for self-defense, have coalesced to guarantee that
criminals maintain an advantage similar to what they enjoyed when the ban was
in place.
The latest proposed requirement for Chicago is to mandate
serial numbers be placed on all bullets and bullet casings. This is being
pushed by state representative Sonya
Harper (D-6th) as way to combat crime. In the real world such a
requirement will not do anything to stop crime, but it will drive up the cost
of ammunition, thereby making it even more difficult for law-abiding citizens
to acquire the tools they need to defend themselves and their families.
Gun Control
Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is a division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Note: Eric H. Holder Jr.
was the attorney general at the U.S.
Department of Justice, for the Barack
Obama administration, and a board member for the American Constitution Society.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the American Constitution Society, and the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace (think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a friend of Michael Douglas, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank),
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Abner J. Mikva
was a board of adviser’s member for the American
Constitution Society, Mary Lane
Mikva’s father, a friend of Newton
N. Minow, a chief judge for the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Julius
Genachowski was his clerk.
Mary Lane Mikva
is Abner J. Mikva’s daughter, a judge
for the 8th Subcircuit Court (Chicago),
and was William J. Brennan Jr’s
clerk.
William J.
Brennan Jr.’s clerks were Mary Lane
Mikva, Virginia A. Seitz, Julius Genachowski & Michael Chertoff, and was a justice for
the U.S. Supreme Court.
Virginia A. Seitz
was William J. Brennan Jr.’s clerk, an
assistant attorney general for the U.S.
Department of Justice, and is a partner at Sidley Austin LLP.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
was the attorney general at the U.S.
Department of Justice, for the Barack
Obama administration, and a board member for the American Constitution Society.
Faith Elizabeth
Gay is a board of adviser’s member for the American Constitution Society, and was an attorney at Sidley Austin LLP.
Dora Hughes is a
senior policy adviser for Sidley Austin
LLP, and was Kathleen Sebelius’s
counselor at U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
Kathleen Sebelius’s
counselor at U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS) for the Barack
Obama administration was Dora Hughes,
and she is married to Gary Sebelius.
Gary Sebelius is
married to Kathleen Sebelius, and
the federal magistrate for the U.S.
Department of Justice.
Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is a division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Michelle Obama
was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP, and Julius Genachowski’s law
school friend.
R. Eden Martin is
counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Newton N. Minow is
a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and was a friend of Abner
J. Mikva.
David D. Hiller was
a partner at Sidley Austin LLP, a
publisher & president & CEO for the Chicago Tribune, and is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past
Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
James S.
Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and the vice
chairman for the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Lester Crown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Meryl Justin
Chertoff is a director, Justice and Society Program for the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and married to Michael
Chertoff.
Julius Genachowski
is a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute (think tank), was Barack Obama’s law school friend, and
was William J. Brennan Jr. & Abner J. Mikva’s clerk.
Walter Isaacson
is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a director
at the Bloomberg Family Foundation.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Michael R.
Bloomberg is the founder of the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, the founder of the Independence
USA PAC, a co-chair for the Mayors
Against Illegal Guns, the founder of Everytown
for Gun Safety, and was a contributor for the Americans for Responsible Solutions.
Independence
USA PAC is a “Gun Safety, Gun Control” PAC for guns.
Mayors
Against Illegal Guns is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety,
Gun Control” group for guns.
Americans
for Responsible Solutions is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” PAC for guns.
Covington
& Burling LLP was the lobby firm for the Americans for Responsible Solutions, and is the lobby firm for the National Football League.
Paul Tagliabue
was a partner at Covington & Burling
LLP, and a commissioner for the National
Football League.
B. Todd Jones is
the chief disciplinary officer for the National
Football League, and was a director at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is a division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Michael Chertoff
was an assistant attorney general for the U.S.
Department of Justice, William J.
Brennan Jr’s clerk, is a senior of counsel at Covington & Burling LLP, and married to Meryl Justin Chertoff.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
is a partner at Covington & Burling
LLP, a member of the Markle Task
Force on National Security in the Information Age, was the attorney general
at the U.S. Department of Justice,
for the Barack Obama administration,
and a board member for the American
Constitution Society.
Margaret A.
Hamburg is a member of the Markle
Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, and was a VP for
the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think
tank).
Warren E. Buffett
is an adviser for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety,
Gun Control” group for guns.
Michael Douglas
is a director at the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and a friend of George Soros.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United States in war)
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and was a director at the Joyce Foundation.
Joyce Foundation
was a funder for the Brady Center to
Prevent Gun Violence, and Mayors
Against Illegal Guns.
Brady
Center to Prevent Gun Violence is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.
Mayors
Against Illegal Guns is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.
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