Pritzker Calls Gun Violence ‘Public Health Crisis;’ Activists Call for State of Emergency Declaration – NBC5 (Chicago)

Jahmal Cole, the founder of “My Block, My Hood, My City” called for federal intervention as well. “Gun violence is the leading cause of death among children and teenagers in the state of Illinois. That shouldn’t be the case. To increase public safety, we need jobs with thriving wages, affordable housing and public mental health services.”
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debtsor
4 years ago

Fear not, everything the progressive does fails, and absent further electoral cheating, or installing a dictatorship, they will fail and the pendulum will swing back the other way in a very harsh manner. I just hope we don’t end up in gulags before the pendulum swings back.

Ex Illini
4 years ago

If you want to stop gun violence in Chicago and Cook County, you need to be willing to put offenders behind bars. JB and Kim Foxx have pledged to empty the prisons, so how is this going to work? Anything JB says is simply lip service. He doesn’t want to jail his base. Step aside and let the adults handle it Jelly Bean. You are nothing but a wannabe. All you have is daddy’s money in a size 62 short suit.

ProzacPlease
4 years ago

Pritzker is following a very dangerous path.

Progressives are already defining dissent from their political agenda as “extremism” and declared it dangerous. Now, they are attempting to redefine criminal behavior as a public health emergency.

How long before they declare “extremism” (political dissent) a public health emergency, requiring total executive control? They are already saying it is the biggest terrorist threat the U.S. faces.

The legislature and courts cannot allow the executive to claim emergency power based on criminal behavior. That will push us over the cliff.

Yossarian
4 years ago

For the sake of argument, let’s say that you eliminate all guns in the city. You know the violence between the gangs is not going to stop. So you would think that the next weapon of choice would be knives. What then? Eliminate knives? Maybe baseball bats? Just think of all the tax money that can be made by taxing deadly kitchen utensils! That money could then be “reinvested” in the ‘hood. Midnight basketball anyone?

Fed up neighbor
4 years ago

Everything thats wrong has turned into a health crisis.

someone
4 years ago

Lard Boy is a walking health crisis and would not know what a real health crisis is if it was in from of him.

Debtsor
4 years ago

Give us free stuff or else we’ll continue shooting each other over petty gang disputes. What a compelling argument

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