In a city where gunfire is more ubiquitous than bad pizza or losing professional sports teams, the first priority these days is minimizing the risk and damage to normal people who live there and haven’t yet been able to emigrate to safer locations around the country.
The “community group” called Native Sons has introduced an ordinance The People’s Ordinance has put the call out to the city famously corrupt burg’s City Council Public Safety Committee for consideration.
According to CWB Chicago . . .
“We have to start somewhere,” Tatiana Atkins, co-founder of Native Sons, said. “Our goal is to approach our city’s gun violence problem strategically and not all at once. Things didn’t become this way overnight, and change won’t happen overnight.
“Under this ordinance, we ask that people stop associating with and glorifying’ shooters,’ stop glorifying ‘switches,’ and stop wearing those ski masks everywhere which perpetuates you as some ‘opp,’” Atkins told CWBChicago recently. “When those who live a certain lifestyle try to hang with ‘regular’ class citizens, they put everyone at risk.”
Atkins apparently means activity like this . . .
This, of course, is an ideal first step to finally doing something meaningful about the Windy City’s out-of-control violent crime problem. Surely criminals and gangbangers will respect calls from groups like Native Sons to limit their drug dealing, turf battles, drive-bys, and gunfire to an arbitrary 12-hour window.
“If people know that after a certain hour, the likelihood of them being shot by an unknown and unprovoked assailant are at a higher risk, they will be less likely to be out and about, and they may become more proactive with the supervision of their children,” she continued.
Why didn’t we think of that?