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Could be as simple as they start at the point where they can have the most impact with the lowest potential for problems.

On the other hand if you constantly hear stories of dead bodies, shootings, and victims of violent crime in the city, you might wonder why the leadership is inept, incompetent and unable to solve the problem that has seen massive amounts of money thrown at it. On some level, it goes back to the mindset when the reports of gang members taking over apartment buildings and the perception that the liberal philosophy was “Well, it’s only a couple complexes…”. There may well be a political element to it, that’s nothing new at all.

Never lived there, but loved the times I have visited. I have a close friend who lives downtown--bought a very cool house in a renovated area maybe 20 years ago. His version is that crime is bad, it happens in his neighborhood but at a lower rate than some of the high crime areas. Guy was shot up around the corner a few years ago. I have another friend who lived in the suburbs, worked downtown in his financial services firm who believes the city is not worth the risk anymore due to crime and poor leadership. Part of his view may be skewed because the wife of a friend caught a bullet in the head on the way home to the suburbs, from the downtown office she worked at, and died. He moved south, the firm moved out of the downtown area. Obviously, two anecdotal experiences does not a crisis make, but it certainly sounds like the relative safety of the city is nothing to brag about if you're leading the charge at city and state levels.

Deflection, a classic sign of insecurity.

Your attempt to leverage the death of a child for an endorphin rush is about as pathetic as it gets. Have you no boundaries at all? Be that as it may, it’s possible you’re not a complete sociopath off the board and I’ll say a prayer for you to find some sense of inner peace.

Good Lord, Tough Guy Slim is under the influence again. Read for understanding, not for some springboard to insult someone on a message board because of whatever trauma in your life brought you to this point. The only coward here is you. The 11 year old is the victim, it's a horrible story, and while I think you have some obscure insecurity complex that causes you to lash out behind the protection of a keyboard, we're on the same page here. Take the guy who shot this poor child--who was doing something I did many times as a youngster--and lock him away for ever. I no longer believe in the death penalty, but if I had to make an exception, this would be a front runner. Now--stop for second, take a deep breath, shut your mouth and open your ears for the second part that may have confused you. There is a tik tok challenge where the action is not ringing doorbells, it involves kicking in the door at the house. My point on that was that it is a wholly different activity, completely reckless, foolish and the potential for a tragic outcome seems quite high to me. I am not a gun owner, have no desire to own a gun, so I'm not shooting anyone regardless. However, I can see where a person in fear of a robbery, or in fear of an intruder, or protecting his wife and children might well use a weapon in that scenario. We all know you wouldn't--you would demand a screen name so you could send a harshly worded memo anonymously like it was 1958. What a d-bag.

Yup, and I'm not making the comparison to cars to draw you into a debate about confiscating cars. I am, however, willing to contemplate where we draw the line societally on when possible tragic outcomes are the offshoot of negligent actions of individuals. I don't know the math, but I'd bet a significant portion of serious accidents and fatalities stem from young drivers acting recklessly. If we cede the need for those working folk to have a a vehicle, what about the young who decide they want a car, or they get a car back/forth to school when there is transportation freely available and provided by the school? What about the elderly, no longer working, skills diminished, more dangerous than just a few years back? @Joe Ferguson forever surely has seen a decline in his fine motor skills after years of cheap scotch poured from expensive bottles at the country club. And what about mean blonde (or formerly blonde) girls like @ComradeKayAdams ....notoriously bad drivers while doing their textin, their makeup, their jibjab with their gals on the phone about the latest nylons and such?

I didn’t mean to suggest you said that, I was just asking. Sounds to me like the age old problem of lots and lots of money going through the system, but lots of inefficiency, bid rigging and grift before a legitimate dollar was spent. I don’t know how you change unless it’s cultural, top to bottom.

I think this matter should be worked out. I’m not at all certain how 600 minors arrive unaccompanied without an explanation, whether trafficking is involved, where the parents are or anything else. Yes, I’m good with pausing the matter until details are worked out and we know what’s happening. And if the narrative was that individuals were being placed in the wealthiest (read liberal) part of the city (where the Chi Goosians likely live), perhaps it would not seem nearly as dangerous as where they most likely would be sent. I have always enjoyed my time in Chicago, but it’s got some major issues with crime and violence.

I heard they were offered a trip to Chicago, they declined and requested asylum in a safer place.

Thank goodness they are not sending them to Chicago.

What would you want it to be if you were a resident? Return to status quo? I would hope the sh8tty leadership would honor its obligation to take tax dollars and divert them to programs making the city a safer place to live. It doesn’t seem like less enforcement is the right idea.

Then again you would have to ask why the FBI/DOJ spent countless hours and significant sums to prosecute many people for minor crimes that don’t raise an eyebrow in other cities after 1/6. I’d say it’s a political move in part to juxtapose the perception of soft on crime democrats (who actually sound at time like they are pro-crime) v law and order crowd.

Tragic story. Are you advocating for confiscation of all guns to avoid the scenario above? I’m not sure how you stamp out gross negligence or unfortunate outcomes from the process, any more than a negligent parent who has an accident with a motor vehicle with tragic outcomes for family members.

Absolutely agree. That story was absolutely nuts. However, as Orlando pointed out, some of these “challenges” include kicking in doors as part of the stunt. There’s a major difference between a kid ringing a doorbell 15 times and running, and violently attempting to gain access to someone else’s home. In those cases, I’d think the number of people choosing to defend themselves with a firearm is roughly the same number as those with access to a firearm.

I’m not reading where this boy tried to kick in the door, just that he and his friends rang the doorbell and took off. Assuming that’s accurate, what an insane thing for a person to do—-shoot at a group of people running away from the house after an admittedly aggravating stunt. I did read about the doors being kicked in…and wonder for the 50th time about the stupidity of some of these tik tok trends. That’s a good way to get killed.

Welcome back!

Appearances can be deceiving to the uninformed. See: The Socialati. Bernie Sanders. Zoloft Mandambo. And, Tibsy’s suggestion that I do not care about the country, which prompted my declaration that he was being a moop. Now, of course, you are a moop as well. Perhaps you and the fundamentally decent Tibsy will one day date at a carbon neutral Nearly Diary Queen, fall in love over a Vegnanna Split, get married and raise a whole bunch of little baby moops. Leh-nerd presses the mute button. Leh-nerd, having fallen asleep earlier, awakens from his slumber, and sees the volume set to mute. As he falls back to sleep, a hint of a smile appears on his face…

I don’t know on the bike, it’s just that it’s not something I wonder about. PennSt is the bike guy.

Duly noted. I wonder if he can make THE best sand castle, and not one of those artsy ones that’s aren’t actually sand castles.

I think as a young man, Tibs opted to shower with his clothes on to get ready for school sooner than the other kids. I admire his pluck. I like the ladies but acknowledge the effort.

That’s not nice.

Oh, I’ll do what I want Tibsy. You love China in all its glory, happy to sell your soul in exchange for cheap electronics. Let’s not pretend you aren’t all about you, ya moop. I care lots of stictches, btw, and I’m not even sure what this means.

Why not just accuse him of being a plant in a Russian sleeper cell, arrest him for 17 different crimes using a reimagined approach to litigation, bust into his house using armed agents authorized to dispatch occupants as necessary, grabbing everything in sight, swear to only look at items authorized by decree, and use partisan politicians with their own questionable civil/criminal issues hiding in plain sight to lead the charge to perpetual imprisonment? That worked pretty well the last time. As for the next entitled democrat screeching fair share, oligarchs and this like…..this sort of thing is likely the tip of a substantial iceberg: https://apnews.com/general-news-political-news-9426bc09f958ae9865309dd71a04aa97 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — For months, Gov. Gavin Newsom has pleaded with Californians to resist the temptation to socialize with friends and relatives outside their household. Turns out, he’s the one who couldn’t resist. Newsom acknowledged Friday he attended a birthday party with a dozen friends on Nov. 6 at the posh French Laundry restaurant in wine country north of San Francisco. “While our family followed the restaurant’s health protocols and took safety precautions, we should have modeled better behavior and not joined the dinner,” he said in a statement.