300 have been shot in Chicago so far this year. Why hasn’t biden said anything about that?

[Pterodon]

[WhiteSteve]

Gun violence needs to be addressed, period. All of it sucks. You’re just always going to get more concern over random acts of violence.

300 shootings are too many to broad-brush, I don’t know the nature of all of them to say for sure, but I’d suspect that the majority stem from interpersonal disputes. Might be over money, a woman, drugs, some sort of disrespect…. but broadly speaking, interpersonal disputes.

Meanwhile, somebody shooting up a school, a supermarket, a subway train, just out of nowhere? That’s fucking CRAZY, man. Getting into beef with somebody, or maybe getting involved in the illegal lifestyle…you know that’s dangerous going in. You may underestimate certain repercussions, like you might get shot when you think you’re just going to get your ass kicked, but you know there’s some element of physical danger involved. But every one of us goes to the supermarket. Almost every one of us has gone to school. Almost everyone has taken public transportation. We’re not buying a brick of cocaine where we expect something could possibly go sideways. These are places we go and things we do mindlessly, literally what constitutes “going about our business.” To think any of us or someone we care about could just be gunned down by some loser who thinks he’s a big man because he has a firearm is jarring.

I watched the Buffalo shooter’s video. I don’t even need to say it, it was obviously horrifying. And he did it with such ease and speed. I analyzed the video, I counted, he dropped FOUR people in THREE seconds. If there was a crowd there, forget it, he would’ve mowed them all down, most of them fatally, with this fucking video game gun that I can’t believe they sell to civilians, holy FUCK. Hip fired two headshots to the first unsuspecting woman just stepping out of his car, blazed two other ladies from about yards, shot another guy down 25-30 yards away. No “good guy with a gun” could’ve done a good goddamn thing about it either, not without already ridiculous casualties. I wouldn’t feel any better about “four people shot” than “ten people shot” in the headline if he got taken out a few seconds sooner.

That video took me down a rabbit hole of shooting videos. I saw one of these Chicago shootings, I don’t know how recent, but not too long ago guessing by the clothes the victims were wearing. Three BOYS —these were probably 14-16 year old children, for fuck sake….18 or 19 TOPS if they were adults, basically still kids— are standing in some sort of very small lobby, it might’ve been a takeout food window inside a doorway, very small MAYBE 6x8 feet. Just standing there, looking at their phones. One kid had a nice bomber jacket and hat on (security cam was in color). All of a sudden, the door pulls open, and a hooded guy has a gun drawn. The kids were trapped with nowhere to run, they basically all turtled up into each other on the floor, and this guy just let off more shots than I even knew a pistol could hold, swinging his arms side to side to get everyone. I’m guessing only one survived, who was lucky enough to fall behind his much unluckier friend in the nice bomber jacket. They were all squirming as they were being shot, eventually two presumably got clipped in the head and stopped moving, and after the bomber jacket guy had stopped moving, he took another one to the neck, I’m guessing, because an instantaneous puddle of blood formed, just like “SPLAT.” The shooter ran off, the surviving kid staggered to his feet and grabbed his dead friend’s phone, and that’s where it ended.

The fact humans do this or even want to do this to each other is FUCKED. I don’t even know what to say. It’s FUCKED. It all has to stop. FUCKED.

[Dargil]

It's a Democrat governed city and it is predominantly black on black crime.
Counter to his narratives.

[Oigit]

The same reason most politicians won't talk about it. It does not fit the gun agenda they are pushing. Also it would draw more attention to the illegal international gun trade and cause more people to realize that illegal gun manufacturing operations do take place in the US.

[Fireguy17]

Not news worthy.
They have some of the strictest gun laws in Illinois, but look what is happening.
That does not go well with the agenda.

[BillyBalls]

Because the media is only concerned when a white guy kills people.

[MrTaboo]

Because that's black on black crime and won't help their agenda.

[DCooper]

Because that's one of those "racial jungles" he rants about.

[Juxtapose]

He probably doesn't even know what year it is dude.

[EnglishEuropean]

Eh, maybe he's busy with school shootings in Texas.

[IsoUser]

I honestly don't know how to even answer that question as a human being I am literally shocked.

[jimmy2]

I understand the Mayor called for a rise up or roits

[Pterodon]

Nothing that stupid bitch does or says would surprise me

[ArtemisSilver]

How about a "this is sparta" joke. Anyone?

[DWornock]

Liberals won't admit that blacks kill blacks.

[exitseven]

It would be racist.