An outburst of gunfire rattled the city during the weekend, with at least nine people killed in 36 separate acts of violence.
The shootings were reported from Friday until Monday morning, police spokeswoman Monique Bond said.
They included gang shootings, drive-by attacks, and even one case in which someone used an AK-47 to shoot up a plumbing supply store.
Authorities did not immediately say whether any of the shootings were thought to be related.
Police Superintendent Jody Weis blamed an excess of guns and gangs. “There are just too many weapons here,” Weis said Sunday. “Too many guns, too many gangs.”
When I first read these accounts I thought: Man, that sounds worse than Baghdad.  I wasn’t the only one who made the connection.
At Instapundit, Glenn publishes an email from Michael Yon, noted blogger on the ground in Iraq. “CHICAGO SOUNDS LIKE MOSUL”
And Glenn himself makes this observation:Â “Still, they’re different: One has crooked officials, violent gangs with their hooks into government and law enforcement, and a culture of corruption that has resisted the central government’s effects to clean it up, and the other is a city in Iraq.”
Ouch.
So, what is Obama’s Plan to end the War in Chicago? Should we surrender to the gangs and let them fill in a power vacuum?Â
Ah, difficult questions that won’t be asked by the MSM.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
Bruce, you silly goose! All Chicago needs is more federal money, followed by more federal money, supplemented by additional federal money and a few dozen federal grants and a blue ribbon panel of liberal democrats to make recommendations for federal programs and additional assistance to individuals in need of outreach and training programs.
Open your eyes, man! The city is crying for help and understanding. Stop sitting on your wallet! It is making you grouchy.
We should only surrender to the Black gangs, since they have a history of oppression, so they get a free pass. The Hispanic gangs must be fought, since they all came here illegally and have no right to be here.
This is hardly news. Chicago has been known for its corrupt city politics for the last 150 years. I don’t think any U.S. president, Republican or Democrat, has done much to solve it — not that city government is within the purview of the president.
Obama doesn’t really oppose the war philosophically, only opportunistically. I’m with W on this one, especially for Hillary. Both these mopes know what they have to say to appeal to the ignorant ideologues that people Dem primaries. Both know precipitous pull-out will be a disaster; politically not least of all. But why let it come to that? If you actually want the war FOUGHT (see, not WON but FOUGHT; winning we cannot guarantee) there is a candidate who claims he will fight it and will fight it. Democrats only want to wish the war away. That is what HillBama promise.
Wasn’t it Chucky Schumer who was pushing for segregation in Iraq? If it’s good for them, why not us?
There is never a good way out of the situation you shouldn’t be in anyway. We shouldn’t have gotten tangled up in the internal affairs of Iraq. The first Bush knew this. His idiot son didn’t. And now look what a mess we are in.
When can we get out? Well either disgracefully or never. Those are the choices that we seem to have. We learned nothing from history and here we are: deja vu all over again.
Unfortunately the city of Chicago will attempt to “do something” about rampant gang violence by upgrading their weaponry. Yeah, because they DID have policemen at every shooting, but the policemen were under-armed. THAT’s the problem.
My guess would be that the real problem is the city government is so intertwined with gangs they can’t do anything about them. You can’t bust everyone in a gang when so many city employees (I’m not going to point them out, but we all know who) receive various benefits from gang activity.