womble wrote:That rectangle of generational gang violence goes back to the 1920,s .just an ongoing saga where they can never really broker peace.
Easy to access guns from Michigan.
Where there’s poverty theres drugs, where there’s drugs theres guns.
1 in 5 Chicago residents live in poverty.
Not so hard to explain Chicago.
Nevertheless Illinois dose’nt fare so badly overall considering. Credit where it’s due.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htmClick on death rate per capita and Illinois dose’nt even make the top 12.
The link between wealthy real estate and poverty stricken areas is starkly obvious.
And your southern white trailer trash is easily outgunning your African American gangs.
Loss of industry and jobs, the crystal meth and subsequent opiate epidemics that tore through the southern states. Poverty and the stresses to survive, dose’nt discriminate.
I've been to Chicago many times. There are plenty of opportunities to make money in the Chicago area and either become wealthy or live a middle class lifestyle there in the suburbs.
The problem with Chicago is the Democratic Party. There are strict gun laws in the city, so people have a harder time defending themselves. The city does a poor job prosecuting crime breakers. And the party supports a welfare state so it pays people to sit at home and do nothing, who often of course get into trouble.
My theory from what I have seen in cities like this Chicago and Camden, NJ, Detroit, Oakland and other places is that it's really just one big grift and skim by the Democrats and they don't want the problem solved because that ends the grift. As it stands with drug fueled crime, it supports a huge infrastructure of police, lawyers, drug rehab people, jails, hospitals, government bureaucrats, judges, etc. In the end, they live in gated wealthy communities or in the suburbs and get rich off the street urchins doing themselves in.
In the 1990s after we had a growth in violent crime, crime rates plummeted as many began enforcing "three strikes and your out" which meant convicted of violent crime 3 times and you went for life in prison. Plus many communities and states began loosening restrictions on citizens carrying and using firearms for personal defense.
Now however that has changed and many crimes are not prosecuted or criminals are let off with light sentences and little repercussions and well golly gee whiz, surprise, surprise, we now got a lot of these cities racked with crime.