{"id":565988,"date":"2021-06-16T16:22:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T20:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=565988"},"modified":"2021-06-16T16:22:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T20:22:48","slug":"we-need-help-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-begs-for-federal-assistance-after-second-mass-shooting-in-four-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-need-help-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-begs-for-federal-assistance-after-second-mass-shooting-in-four-days\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Need Help\u2019: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Begs For Federal Assistance After Second Mass Shooting In Four Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/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%2Fwe-need-help-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-begs-for-federal-assistance-after-second-mass-shooting-in-four-days%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=565988&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/801E5AE3-5F3A-4B0E-AF21-F0DCF6A1A72D_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot made an impassioned plea for state and federal assistance following the city\u2019s second mass shooting in less than a week, according to ABC News, begging the Biden administration and the Illinois governor\u2019s office for help in quelling the city\u2019s out-of-control gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot focused her request for solutions on the \u201cillegal gun\u201d problem, suggesting that Chicago, which has some of the nation\u2019s strictest gun laws, is suffering because of more lenient gun laws elsewhere and the lack of a uniform federal response to the illicit gun trade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must acknowledge this for what it is\u2014a tragedy that has ripped apart families and inflicted intense trauma on several individuals,\u201d Lightfoot said Tuesday referring to the second mass shooting, which occurred at a home that has a number of previous \u201cdisturbance\u201d complaints. \u201cIt tells us that we still have much work to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She then theorized that the shooting was not the result of issues with Chicago police but with illegal guns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we will likely learn as the details become clearer is that illegal guns continue to plague us,\u201d Lightfoot said. \u201cGun violence continues to have a deep and painful history in our city. Unfortunately, Chicago is not unique. We are part of a club of cities for which no one wants to belong, cities with mass shootings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She then turned her attention to the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a national problem,\u201d Lightfoot began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCities individually cannot tackle this problem. We just cannot. In Chicago, we\u2019ve done absolutely everything possible and we need help from the federal government,\u201d Lightfoot said. \u201cWhen guns are so porous that they can come across our borders as we see every single day in Chicago, we know that we have to have a multi-jurisdictional, national solution to this horrible plague of gun violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagobusiness.com\/crains-forum-gun-violence-and-covid-19\/gun-violence-and-covid-19\">Crain\u2019s Chicago Business study did cite guns<\/a> as one factor in Chicago\u2019s increasing rate of violence, but other factors appear to be at work as well. Last year, Chicago\u2019s Police Chief David Brown decried a \u201clack of consequences\u201d for Chicago\u2019s gun offenders, essentially rendering Chicago\u2019s gun control measures impotent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElectronic monitoring and low bond amounts given to offenders endanger our residents and flies in the face of the hard work our police officers put in on a daily basis to take them off the streets,\u201d Brown <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wttw.com\/2020\/06\/29\/top-cop-david-brown-again-decries-lack-consequences-chicago-gun-offenders\">said at a press conference in June of 2020<\/a>, following a particularly bloody Father\u2019s Day weekend. At one point, the Chicago Police Department tried to address the issue of gun offenders being given low or no bonds and then returned to the streets by <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/2019\/8\/5\/20755318\/police-unveil-website-tracking-gun-offender-bond-information\">creating a database of gun offenders<\/a>, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. That effort, though, appears to have fallen by the wayside.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago\u2019s gun violence issues are also not new; Lightfoot rebuffed then-President Donald Trump when he offered to send in federal officials to bolster Chicago\u2019s law enforcement efforts following a shocking mass shooting last summer, per the New York Post, telling reporters that she believed Trump\u2019s \u201ctroops\u201d would \u201cterrorize\u201d the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder no circumstances will I allow Donald Trump\u2019s troops to come to Chicago and terrorize our residents,\u201d Lightfoot noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some things the federal government is uniquely qualified to handle. We would welcome that,\u201d she told MSNBC at the time. \u201cWhat we do not welcome, and what we will not tolerate, and we will fight against is the deployment of unnamed federal special secret agents onto our streets to detain people without cause and effectively take away their civil rights and their civil liberties without due process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot said Tuesday that she has been in contact with the White House, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/injured-2nd-mass-shooting-chicago-days\/story?id=78287039\">according to ABC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot made an impassioned plea for state and federal assistance following the city\u2019s second mass shooting in less than a week, according to ABC News, begging the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280493,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/801E5AE3-5F3A-4B0E-AF21-F0DCF6A1A72D_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018We Need Help\u2019: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Begs For Federal Assistance After Second Mass Shooting In Four Days","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/801E5AE3-5F3A-4B0E-AF21-F0DCF6A1A72D_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018We Need Help\u2019: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Begs For Federal Assistance After Second Mass Shooting In Four Days","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565988","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}