Clearly a result of the liberal handgun laws there. Oh, wait.
Chicago Sees 78% Rise in Weekend Shootings, Most in Two Months
And we’re off to the races. The last couple of weekends in the Chicagoland area saw slightly less than 20 shooting victims each weekend, but as the weather begins to get a little warmer, the number of shooting victims have increased. Chicago saw three people murdered and another 29 wounded in shootings over the weekend.
Here is an example of the violence over this past weekend, according to the Chicago Sun-Times:
A 14-year-old boy was gunned down shortly after 3 p.m. Saturday in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side. Laquan Allen was on the sidewalk in the 4900 block of West Hubbard when someone fired shots from a passing vehicle, authorities said. Allen suffered a gunshot wound to the buttocks and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:34 p.m. He lived in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood.