More Than 60 Shot, 9 Dead in Chicago's Bloody Holiday Weekend

[sofa king]

68. I was going to ask what's going on.

I've seen a lot of blood-letting summer weekends now--Reagan's crack epidemic was so much bloodier than this you just wouldn't believe it if you hadn't experienced it yourself.

So my first guess was that this was some sort of large-scale takeover of drug sales territory. I guess the real story will shake out in a few days or weeks. My experience tells me there is always a much deeper reason than, "it's too hot outside," though temperature--and therefore climate change--does play a significant role.

It's also worth remembering that the allegations that the Reagan Administration, through aiding the Contras, became deeply entwined with the major distributors of cocaine at the time is now documented and no longer a point of debate.

So, perhaps we should be asking ourselves, "what is the Republican Party/CIA/NSA saving up for this summer?"

Edit: And I should scoldingly remind a lot of you that this is about poverty, lack of opportunity and hope, and desperate urban populations being monetized by the illicit drug trade, NOT about guns. Take the guns away overnight and the dealers will continue to ply their illicit trade and control their territory with knives, clubs, and axes, exactly as tyrants always have for 100,000 years.