The final tally is in, 59 people shot, 7 dead and 52 wouded.

Avoid Englewood amd Garfield Park.and you will probably just get robbed

@ianR0ckwell I'm from Humboldt Park so I've had to drive right through Garfield to get out west and you better believe I don't let me foot off the gas pedal the whole damn way.

I used to work in Garfield Park...good times

@GJOFJ3 It's a statistic. Like they're not even humans.

@BlueMetalChick exactly

@BlueMetalChick I am pretty sure that gangsters pretty much never bother to hand-load their ammunition. All of the studies on criminal ammunition use seem to point to them simply using store-bought. And a lot of it.

@QuixoticSoul Maybe it's because all the criminals I know are La Cosa Nostra, and they use hand-loads.

@BlueMetalChick The only real forensic advantage there is a reused case that has marks from several firings. But in a situation where that kind of evidence is useful to begin with, it wouldn't be likely to create much of an issue.

Introduces a unique vulnerability too - the ammunition presses used for hand-loading bullets also leave their own, distinct marks. That's how that one British chap got pinched, filling obsolete-caliber bullets for gangs in the UK.

@CrustyDDingus I came here to get AWAY from the violence. Apparently I'm stupid.

@BlueMetalChick well you got pizza at least.

@MarmeeMarch self defense can be classified as sensible violence...

@BlueMetalChick thx for the sensible answer -

@deadgerbil True, but self defense is only necessary if someone is attacking you, and that's senseless violence on their part.

@GJOFJ3 Because we're used to it here, and because it's mostly poor people in low income neighborhoods. And we generally tend to think of them as less important, and it upsets me a great deal.

@BlueMetalChick I think the main reason it gets no attention is because it doesn't fit a political agenda

@GJOFJ3 Chicago is an interesting dichotomy. On the one hand, we have some of the strictest gun control laws in the country. On the other hand, it's WAY easier to buy a gun here than anywhere else I've been in America. I bought a handgun when I was 15 years old, and an illegal immigrant. I paid cash money and had no waiting period. I walked out of the store with a loaded weapon.

@abe182 Because it's become regular, and because so much of it is concentrated in low income neighborhoods that people have written off as not important because who cares about those uneducated niggers and White trash in the poor hoods.

@BlueMetalChick exactly right. Three words.....
[i]NO AD REVENUE [/i]

@IstillmissEP So you're telling me there's no way to mitigate the problems of poverty and lack of education other than a mass murder?

Jesus, no wonder you're always so bitter.

@BlueMetalChick

@QuixoticSoul That's priceless.

@MarmeeMarch I'll just assume he is white and conservative and pro Trump - sure why not....

@MarmeeMarch So far, only seven people have been apprehended. Three were Black, two were White, one was Puerto Rican, and one was Mexican. At least, according to the Cook County Circuit Court's public arrest records.