It's the start of Summer, and HeyJackass! has the statistics about how people kicked off the season with Memorial Day Weekend.
The Summer of Joy 2 has arrived! Starting this weekend and for the next 100 days, be prepared to experience more silly decisions than one thought could be humanly possible. Please, no demonizing.
The final tally was 12 killed and 49 shot and wounded. Not as bad as I expected based on how bad things were on Saturday, but bad enough. No one will be able to claim that crime is down (well, okay they probably will) since the weekend tallied more violence and death than the same weekend for the past few years. In fact you have to go back to 2016 to find a Memorial Day weekend with more mayhem.
For the purposes of counting violence over the extended weekend, HeyJackass! counts incidents from noon on Friday through 6AM Tuesday.
So how many people does it take to make an incident a "mass shooting?" Because Chicago had one incident with 3 people being injured and one with 3 injuries and one fatality. Neither incident seems to have made the national news, or the local news for that matter. Maybe 4 people shot isn't enough for it to be considered a mass shooting. It couldn't be that the shooting didn't take place in suburbia that makes it not of interest. That would be racist on the part of the reporters, and we know they aren't racist. (Just ask them, and they will tell you that.)
It really was a wonderful city. Past tense.
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