{"id":1487343,"date":"2022-05-22T08:16:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T12:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1487343"},"modified":"2022-05-22T08:16:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T12:16:19","slug":"the-chicago-mass-shooting-you-didnt-hear-about-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-chicago-mass-shooting-you-didnt-hear-about-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chicago Mass Shooting You Didn\u2019t Hear About Last Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-chicago-mass-shooting-you-didnt-hear-about-last-week%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1487343&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The city of Chicago suffered a mass shooting Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/chicago-mass-shooting-1-in-custody-after-2-killed-8-injured-in-shooting-in-gold-coast-neighborhood-police-say\/2837660\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> NBC News.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>At least two people were killed and another seven wounded Thursday night in a deadly mass shooting near a McDonald\u2019s in Chicago\u2019s Gold Coast neighborhood, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting occurred around 10:40 p.m. Thursday in the 800 Block of North State Street outside of a McDonald\u2019s near Chicago Avenue and State Street, Chicago Police spokesperson Tom Ahern said.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said two groups were arguing before someone fired a gun into the crowd of people. The incident was captured on video near the scene, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see on video where a person with a gun fires into the crowd \u2013 basically this is a disturbance, a personal conflict \u2013 hitting the nine people, killing two, wounding seven,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But don\u2019t expect to see breathless media coverage of Presiden Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/nick-arama\/2022\/05\/17\/biden-makes-visit-to-buffalo-about-himself-but-trips-all-over-his-own-hypocrisy-n565930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plans to visit<\/a> the corner of Chicago Avenue and State Street, outside the McDonalds where those two people lost their lives and another remains in critical condition Saturday (all were shot in the chest), the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/breaking\/ct-chicago-shooting-state-street-20220520-5wmewlvx2nfchgsnds2tgh2mju-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago Tribune<\/a> reports. Also, don\u2019t think you\u2019ll hear many follow-up details on the prior weekend\u2019s murder of a teen that the publication writes has left residents reeling from shock. That kind of thing just doesn\u2019t fit in with Biden\u2019s or the Democrat Party\u2019s narrative on \u201cgun violence\u201d or the growing menace of \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d in America.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you\u2019re also not surprised that there hasn\u2019t been a press release on this mass shooting from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) or a member of the Squad on the tragedy of these lost lives \u2014 unless, of course, the blame can be fashioned to tout <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/jeffc\/2022\/05\/20\/senate-democrats-introduce-one-of-the-most-tyrannical-gun-control-measures-imaginable-n567543\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stricter legislation<\/a> that would purposely make it even harder for Americans to legally purchase guns to protect themselves, which my colleague Jeff Charles gave a heads-up on this week.<\/p>\n<p>The tired and maddening refrain, as witnessed in the Tribune article Saturday about the city\u2019s soaring violence, which notes it has jumped three-fold from last year, January 1 to May 18 \u2014 5 to 15 \u2014 comes from the Democrat leaders there. By now, readers are all too familiar with Mayor Lori Lightfoot\u2019s excuses for her party\u2019s decades of failure in Chicago. But, listen as the city\u2019s Police Superintendent David Brown insists the problem is a national misery beyond his control; he bemoans that the city is \u201cawash in guns.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1wxyvyl-0 kILHPL body-paragraph\">\u201cThis is a gun crime crisis in our city and our country,\u201d Brown said. Because someone in the crowd who was involved in the argument had a weapon, gunfire erupted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1wxyvyl-0 kILHPL body-paragraph\">\u201cWe are awash in guns,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read it again: \u201c[S]omeone in the crowd who was involved in the argument had a weapon, gunfire erupted.\u201d Well, forgive me for not being impressed by that analysis, Superintendent, but that\u2019s kinda how guns work. Yeah, it\u2019s a tired adage, but it\u2019s true: Guns don\u2019t kill people, criminals with guns kill people.<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot and Brown are on the case, though:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Both Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Superintendent David Brown immediately blamed Thursday\u2019s shooting on parents not keeping track of their children and a flood of guns entering the city, many carried by young people who now use them in fights that in years past may not have been deadly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One resident, whom the <em>Tribune<\/em> identifies as a stockbroker, seems perplexed by the disconnect between what he\u2019s experienced over the past three or four years \u2014 he says there\u2019s \u201ctrouble\u201d sometimes, but he\u2019s never known there to be a fatal shooting \u2014 and the words he hears from Democrat leaders like Lightfoot.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt goes away a little bit when the police are patrolling, like they are now, but it doesn\u2019t solve the problem,\u201d he said. \u201cMayor Lightfoot talked about improving crime, and it doesn\u2019t seem to be improved. Not only around here but in all of Chicago. I can\u2019t quite understand what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Matt Vespa at our sister publication Townhall, in <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/mattvespa\/2022\/05\/20\/oh-so-thats-why-the-buffalo-shooter-wasnt-deemed-mentally-unfit-n2607534\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writing Friday<\/a> on the Buffalo shooting, noted what the leftists\u2019 larger goal is, which we must remain vigilant about:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Left always focuses on the gun, part of their ongoing crusade to shred the Constitution. Our founding document is the biggest obstacle to the authoritarian progressive agenda left-wingers want to be enacted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My colleague Brandon Morse also <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/brandon_morse\/2022\/05\/20\/stop-falling-for-the-term-safety-n567516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pointed out<\/a> the danger of trusting this big government \u201csafety\u201d lie, in a new VIP piece Friday. He\u2019s right. As long as people continue to vote for majority-Democrat leadership in cities like Chicago, New York, and others, they\u2019re going to keep being <em>shocked<\/em> by what they witness happening in their own neighborhoods \u2014 places when they and their families should expect to feel safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Chicago suffered a mass shooting Thursday, according to NBC News. At least two people were killed and another seven wounded Thursday night in a deadly mass shooting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}