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on November 29, 2016 in World News

Not A Happy Thanksgiving: 70 Shot in Gun-Controlled Chicago Over Holiday Weekend

by AWR Hawkins Violence raged in gun-controlled Chicago over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, with 62 people shot and wounded, another eight people shot and killed. This is an exponential jump over the level of violence seen during during the Thanksgiving holidays of the previous two years. In 2014 there were five deaths, with 14 others shot and wounded and in 2015 there were eight deaths with 20 others wounded. But in 2016 there were eight killed with 62 others shot and wounded. According to the Chicago Tribune, the Thanksgiving holiday weekend violence brings Chicago to nearly 4,000 shooting victims for… View Article

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