A major hospital in Chicago was so overwhelmed with shooting victims over the weekend that it was forced to temporarily stop accepting new patients, according to CNN.
There were several gang-related multi-victim shootings on the west side of Chicago on Sunday, overwhelming Mount Sinai Hospital, one of the five trauma centers in Chicago and causing patients to be diverted elsewhere.
“You have to stop yourself and ask what will it take before we get a handle on what’s going on,” Chicago Police Chief Eddie Johnson said. “Not only in Chicago, but across the country. From police departments to the court systems to prosecutors to legislators—we have to come together and figure out more common-sense solutions to these problems because clearly too many of our citizens are being shot and killed.”
How bad was it?
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, three separate shootings resulted in 17 people shot and at least one person killed, and at one point Sunday morning Mount Sinai had 12 trauma patients.
Overall, at least 46 people were shot in Chicago from 5 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday, following up the previous weekend during which eight people were killed and 40 injured in gun violence.
What’s being done about this?
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot wants to work with Chicago police to put 1,500 more police officers on the street and try to confiscate weapons from people with expired gun owner’s ID cards to reduce gun violence in the city, saying last month “People cannot and should not live in neighborhoods that resemble a war zone.”
Last month, Chicago police executed a series of raids on the South and West sides of the city. Police made nearly 200 arrests and seized dozens of guns.
Lightfoot’s approach to gun violence in Chicago has been to frame it as a public health crisis, which she says will lead the city to focus efforts on economic investment in the most violent areas of Chicago, and improving the relationship between minorities and law enforcement.
This must be a conspiracy theory! Chicago is a gun-free zone! There can’t possibly be any guns in the city of Chicago. All law-abiding citizens have been stripped of their firearms, and we’re sure that the criminals in the city only rob people using dull butter knives!
“You have to stop yourself and ask what will it take before we get a handle on what’s going on,” Chicago Police Chief Eddie Johnson said.”
Like actually enforcing the Bill of Rights, d%&kwad???
kinda reads like bullshit ..
maybe the truth of the matter is they were under staffed
“we have to come together and figure out more common-sense solutions to these problems because clearly too many of our citizens are being shot and killed.””
Common sense solutions. For people that are supposed to be so educated, can’t they at least try and use different vocabulary words every now and then instead of repeating the same cliched phrases and buzzwords as everyone else. For people that want to have common sense, you’d think they’d have “Common sense” to use different words or different ways to support their arguments.
Oh wait! That’s right, it’s all a script. How silly of me. I guess I gave them too much credit.