Opinion

Stop killings in Chicago before criticizing others

Posted August 15, 2019 1:00 am

I read the Aug. 6 Daily Herald Page 4 with some astonishment. In one article, Illinois Democrats Chicago Mayor Lightfoot and Gov. Pritzker blamed President Trump's rhetoric for inciting the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings.

Another article says Gov. Pritzker was "thankful" for no Illinois mass shootings, ignoring the Feb. 15, 2019, Aurora warehouse and Feb. 14, 2008, NIU shootings.

Then I read the article titled "Bloody weekend in Chicago leaves 7 dead, dozens hurt." Fifteen people shot in two incidents - seven in one and eight in the other. Don't they qualify as mass shootings? Didn't even make the Herald's or the Chicago Tribune's front page.

Mayor Lightfoot and Gov. Pritzker ironically ignore the Chicago violence that occurs every week. There were 363 homicides in Chicago through July 27. The vast majority were committed with handguns, not so-called assault rifles.

The El Paso shooter seems to have been a white supremacist while some have said the Dayton shooter was a "leftist," who supported the violent Antifia movement and was a Elizabeth Warren & Bernie Sanders fan. How can President Trump be blamed for both?

Mayor Lightfoot and Gov. Pritzker, please stop being hypocrites and at least reduce the killings in Chicago before you blame others.

Denis Bohm

Mettawa

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