1,000 more people shot in Chicago compared with same time last year
A thousand more people have been shot in Chicago this year compared with the same time last year after a weekend that saw eight people killed and at least 40 wounded, according to police and data compiled by the Tribune.
At least 3,475 people had been shot in the city as of shortly after midnight Monday compared with 2,441 people shot this time last year, an increase of 1,034, according to Tribune data. There have been at least 595 homicides this year compared with 409 this time last year, an increase of 186.
EUREKA! THEY FIGURED IT OUT!!
Chicago Gets Serious About Sky-High Murder Rate By Banning WESTERN COWGIRL PLAYSET, Other Toys
Amazon.com will not deliver a toy cowgirl playset to Chicago residents, apparently because of a municipal law in the city forbidding replica toy firearms.
The hot pink ensemble — “everything a kid needs to be a ‘real’ Western cowgirl!” — comes with a child-size cowgirl hat, a holster festooned with a silhouetted horse and rider and a six-pointed badge with a shirt clip and space for a name.
OK. I ADMIT TO BEING A BLOATED, SEMI-LITERATE MORON WHO DOESN’T KNOW SHEEPSHIT FROM APPLE BUTTER. BUT I DO KNOW ABOUT TOY GUNS. WITH A NAME LIKE PISTOL PETE, I BETTER. THIS IS NOTHING MORE THAN A BUNCH OF CORRUPT CHICAGO POLITICOS (ARE THERE ANY OTHER KIND?) COMING UP WITH EXCUSES FOR THE POLICIES THAT HAVE BEEN DISMAL FAILURES FOR DECADES. THIS PARTICULAR TOY SET IS MADE BY TOOTSIETOY, I BELIEVE, AND IS MADE FROM A PATTERN FIRST USED BACK IN THE 1970’S BY THE HALPERN CO. (HALCO) WHO MADE A LOT OF THESE FOR HOLSTER SETS. SINCE THE 1990’S ALL TOY GUNS HAVE HAD AN ORANGE TIP PERMANENTLY ATATCHED TO INDICATE THEY ARE TOYS. SOME STREET TRASH TAKE THE TIP OFF SO THEY RESEMBLE REAL FIREARMS TO EITHER ROB OR INTIMIDATE PEOPLE. ANY TOY GUNS SOLD ON EBAY HAVE TO HAVE THE ORANGE TIP SHOWN AND THE DISCLAIMER THAT I CANNOT BE MODIFIED TO SHOOT REAL AMMUNITION. WHEN THIS POLICY STARTED I USED A FOAM EARPLUG, WHICH COULD BE REMOVED BEFORE SHIPMENT, SINCE THE TOYS I SOLD WERE FROM AN ERA WHERE THERE WAS RESPECT FOR LAW AND POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE NINNIES DIDN’T EXIST. THE REAL PROBLEM IS SCUM WHO BREAK INTO HOUSES SPECIFICALLY TO STEAL GUNS. RESPONSIBLE GUN OWNERS ARE BEING TARGETED BY GUN-GRABBERS WHO KNOW DAMN WELL THAT CRIMINALS PAY NO ATTENTION TO ALL THE GUN LAWS ON THE BOOKS.
THIS IS A SHAMELESS EXCUSE TO SHOW SOME MORE TOY GUNS.
This is the Hubley Texan Junior. It was first made in 1940, out of cast iron. After WWII it was made from a metal alloy with a cast iron hammer and trigger. That was known as the ‘transition gun.’ About 1951 this model came out, being all die cast. These were sold in toy stores, dime stores, and grocery stores on a card for about .79. They made millions of them because most parents could afford them.
This is the Hubley Colt .45. It came with six two-piece bullets to fire caps with. It is still popular with boomers today because at 13 1/2″ it is the largest toy gun that was made. They made them this big because, keep in mind, boys played with toy guns until they were 13 or 14. Before video games and iphones.
This is the Mattel Dick Tracy snub-nose 38. It is a pretty common toy and I always used to have one for sale. I was at a toy show in Chicago when an off-duty officer working security came by my booth and did a double take. I told him Mattel made this gun from 1959 until 1962, when they stopped production because people were robbing stores with it, since it looked so real. Since it was a toy, you couldn’t be charged with armed robbery then. He informed me that now you don’t even have to show a weapon, just indicate you have one, even if it’s just your finger in your pocket. It’s classified as an armed robbery.
This was the ammo for Mattel’s Shootin’Shell toys. The greenie caps stuck to the back of the cartridges. The plastic bullets snapped into the spring-loaded shells and actually fired. A card of these sold for 50 cents. Today an unopened pack like this is about $40-$50. I had a lot of these I carried loose to shows because they were always in demand. I sold 1 casing and 2 noses for $10 and could hardly keep them in stock.
This is an ad from a catalog circa 1960. The set in the center is modeled after the Rebel TV series starring Nick Adams.
Remco made the Johnny Yuma scattergun, and it is so rare I’ve never seen one. If you have one in the box you could easily fetch north of a thousand dollars for the $5 toy.
Baby boomers like me are dying out. So is the market for these wonderfully made toys. They will only exist as long as people retain their childhood imaginations.
BIG FUR HAT FROM IOTW STARTED A GROUP ON FACEBOOK CALLED THE TEA PARTY. IN ONE DAY HE HAD OVER 50,000 MEMBERS.
I POSTED THAT AND GOT HUNDREDS OF LIKES AND MORE THAN 300 SHARES. APPARENTLY A FEW OTHER PEOPLE FEEL THE SAME WAY I DO.
The 1992 Clinton presidential campaign was not about promoting Bill Clinton’s accomplishments or vision but about tarnishing President George H.W. Bush, according to a close aide of the campaign.
ONCE THEY GET 40-50 MILLION ILLEGALS HERE, ALL VOTING DEMOCRAT THEY’LL NEVER LOSE ANOTHER ELECTION
More than 20 cars parked between the Bangor Raceway and Buck Street were hit with lines of white paint. Attendees said the owners of some of the cars appeared to drive off without noticing the vandalism.
Thousands of taxpayer-supported Seattle teachers are planning to don Black Lives Matter t-shirts this week in public schools and force-feed left-wing propaganda to their students about race in an effort to draw attention to the systemic racism they imagine is embedded in the public education regime.
Nearly half—45 percent—of those aged between 16 and 20 years old said they would vote for a socialist, while one in five responded they would vote for a communist, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation found.
One area of particular concern was Hillary’s refusal to follow “standard security and diplomatic” protocol by riding with local U.S. ambassadors in an armored limousine to diplomatic events abroad. It was standard procedure for the secretary of state and the ambassador to arrive together at these events, but Hillary refused, and insisted on riding with her top aide Huma Abedin.
‘SO THEN I GRABBED HER PUSSY’
I RECALL HER SHOUTING AT SOME PHONY-ASSED AWARD SHOW: “I LOOKED UP REPUBLICAN IN THE DICTIONARY…I FOUND IT BETWEEN REPTILE AND REPUGNANT”
President Obama has just 94 more days on the job, but unlike all of his predecessors, he seems to have no plan to leave.
A REAL CHIP OFF THE LYING, THIEVING, OBNOXIOUS BLOCK
The goal of “bird-dogging”: to create a sense of “anarchy” around Donald Trump that would undermine his political support. Often, the tactic uses the most vulnerable people — including the elderly and disabled — to maximize shock value.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRING?
A Los Angeles County sheriff’s sergeant died Wednesday after he was shot while responding to a call of a residential burglary in Lancaster, authorities said.
I’ll tell you on that one, it really was remarkable to me that after Sen. Kaine listed one personal insult against Donald Trump after another—then he accused us of running an ‘insult-driven campaign,’ just—it was remarkable to me. It was also remarkable because Hillary Clinton called millions of Americans who think we can Make America Great Again, who think we can stand tall on the world stage again, who think we can rebuild our military, revive our economy, stand by our Constitution—Hillary Clinton said millions of Americans who believe in Donald Trump’s vision for our country are in a ‘basket of deplorables.’
SHE’S BAAAACK.
TWO INSUFFERABLE WOMEN WITH THEIR PANTIES IN A TWIST OVER WHO GETS TO ASSAULT TRUMP FIRST
At a Hillary Clinton town hall yesterday in Haverford, Pennsylvania, a 15 year old girl was supposedly “chosen at random” to ask a question of the former Secretary of State. But, the well-scripted performance raised some suspicion with a YouTuber named Spanglevision who decided to dig a little deeper. And, wouldn’t you know it, the “random” participant was none other than child actor, Brennan Leach, whose father just happens to be Pennsylvania democratic State Senator Daylin Leach. Oh, and in case it wasn’t obvious, Daylin supports Hillary for president…shocking.
YEAAHH…..NOT GONNA HAPPEN. NOT NOW. NOT EVER.
Department of Justice lawyers are dropping charges against an American arms dealer who said he intended to expose Hillary Clinton’s involvement in weapons shipments to Libya when she served as Secretary of State.
IT WILL HAPPEN AS SOON AS SHE GETS HER 5TH JUDGE.I GUARANTEE IT.THEY’RE JUST WAITING.
THE COUNTRY BE DAMNED…ALL THEY’RE WORRIED ABOUT IS KEEPING THEIR ASSES ON THEIR GRAVY TRAIN
Sen. James Lankford
Murders reported by local law enforcement increased a whopping 10 percent over the year before, according to the 2015 Semiannual Uniform Crime Report released by the FBI Monday.
Black racism is getting worse in America because it is being validated, endorsed, and legitimized like never before.
A 17-year-old Sylacauga High School student is recovering at UAB Hospital after police say he was attacked following the Homecoming football game Friday night.
Social media users have been sharing this black activist’s response during a live heated debate as he defended a 10-year-old American girl’s decision to kneel during the pledge of allegiance.
“The New York Times obtained three pages of Mr. Trump’s 1995 tax returns, for filings in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, marking the first time any of his actual tax returns have been publicly revealed. They showed more than $900 million in losses that could have allowed him to avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years.
This is present-day MSM. Nothing like the law applies to all, for the protection of all, whether we like them or not. No, they think if the law gets in their way, hang the law.
OF COURSE NOT….THEY CAN’T AFFORD TO BUY THE MANSION NEXT DOOR FOR WHEN THE DAUGHTER VISITS.
SPEAKING OF TRAMPS…..
THIS IS WHAT LOWLIFE GRIFTERS LOOK LIKE
The Stonewall Democrats of Pinellas County are crying foul over Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark’s decision to hold voter registration drives at nine Chick-fil-A locations. Chick-fil-A, the fast-food chain known for putting faith ahead of profits, supports conservative causes.
WHY DO YOU SUPPOSE HILLARY IS SO COCKSURE OF HER ELECTION?
The Washington Post reported on Thursday that one of those individuals was Richard Allen Claybrook Sr., who died in 2014 at the age of 87. Claybrook was known by a clerk in the voting registration office as a former Fairfax elementary school principal.
OLD PENIS-HEAD CAN’T HELP HIMSELF
JUST THINK…IN 36 MORE DAYS WE’LL BE SEEING A LOT MORE OF THIS LYING RAPIST
WITH THE UNITED NATIONS NOW RULING THE INTERNET, THIS IS A VIRTUAL CERTAINTY. I GUARANTEE IT.
Just when you thought the United Nations could not sink any lower, a UN panel has issued a report recommending that the United States pay “reparations” to African-Americans for its “legacy of colonial history, enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism and racial inequality.” The report accuses the United States of maintaining “institutional and structural racial discrimination and racism against people of African descent.”
ONCE AGAIN, THE DONALD IS OVERSTATING THE OBVIOUS
THIS SHOW USED TO BE FUNNY
Federal tallies of lethal police shootings are notoriously incomplete; the Post sought to correct that lacuna by searching news sites and other information sources for reports of officer-involved homicides. The results: As of Jan. 15, the Post had documented 987 victims of fatal police shootings in 2015, about twice the number historically recorded by federal agencies. Whites were 50 percent of those victims, and blacks were 26 percent. By comparison, whites are 62 percent of the U.S. population, and blacks, 13 percent.
THEY HUNT IN PACKS, PREYING ON THE WEAK AND THE HELPLESS
IT MAKES ME FEEL WARM ALL OVER KNOWING WHEN I’M DEAD THE COUNTRY WILL BE IN SUCH CAPABLE HANDS
WHAT THIS TRASH PUT THIS LITTLE GIRL UP TO IS PATHETIC
Citing the past year’s spate of police officers killing unarmed African American men, the panel warned against “impunity for state violence,” which has created, in its words, a “human rights crisis” that “must be addressed as a matter of urgency.”
They worked their mayhem — trashing businesses and injuring cops, with one protester killed in the disorder — before anything meaningful could be ascertained about the case except that the cops said Scott had a gun and his family said he didn’t.
Police said Joseph Lewis, 27, is in custody for the murder of Rodriquez Ferguson, the child who police say was an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire.
Start policing your own neighborhoods and stop with the ‘snitches, get stitches’ mentality
THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO ISSUE BEATDOWNS FOR THE CRIME OF BEING WHITE BECAUSE SLAVERY AND STUFF. OBAMA SAYS IT’S O.K.
“At 3am I got a phone call stating that my sister had been killed in a car accident due to some young dumb punk! I haven’t slept and instantly got on the road. Of course we were speeding, trying to get back to Detroit. And we got pulled over in Ohio. I knew I was going to Jail due to a petty warrant. The police called Wayne county and they refused to come get me because of the distance. I explained to the officer that my sister had died and that I needed to get to my mother asap. I broke down crying and he saw the sincerity in my cry. He REACHES OVER AND BEGAN PRAYING OVER ME AND MY FAMILY. He offered to bring me 100 miles further to Detroit because they towed the vehicle. Everybody knows how much I dislike Cops but I am truly Grateful for this Guy. He gave me hope.”
“The key facts in this case are not in dispute. A female suspect, armed with an 8 to 9-inch knife, charged at officers, repeatedly ignored commands to stop, and was recorded yelling ‘shoot me’ as she swung her knife from side to side,” the LAPPL Board of Directors wrote in a blog post.
Good question. One debate is supposed to fix 30 years of lying and getting away with it? How’s that
A federal judge, described during her confirmation hearings as one of the most “radical” to ever take the bench, won’t be recusing herself in the case against the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) signature global warming regulation.
“MADAME SECRETARY: WHAT WILL IT FEEL LIKE TO GO BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE AGAIN, THIS TIME AS PRESIDENT?”
OF COURSE SHE’S GOING TO PLAY THE VICTIM… IT’S ALL SHE HAS
IT WILL ALL BE OVER SOON ENOUGH
Raise Your Hand if You’re Sure
Chicago ticked past a pair of grim milestones as August passed into September. Chicago Police said 90 people were murdered in the city in August. A few hours into Sept. 1, the total number of murders in 2016 reached 469, exceeding the tally for all of last year.
Tavon was among more than 400 people shot in Chicago this month. There have been 84 homicides, marking August as the most violent month in the city in 20 years, according to data collected by the Tribune. And there are two more days to go.
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